You hosted the tournament with all the benefits of being a host nation, that is literally got no bearing on the situation dummkopf. And that was only 2 editions after you had hosted it previously with people who had been at the 2011 one still playing in the 2023 one, after hosting a T20 WC in 2016, supposed to host another one until COVID was so widespread in your borders that even the ICC had to say no to you in 2021. With another t20 WC hosting in 2026 (yes joint with Sri Lanka but how “joint” it will be will hardly be 50/50 (see 2026 FIFA WC for template)), if that’s not some kind of favouritism I don’t know what is. Pakistan agreed to go to a country who’s government is openly antagonistic towards them yet still barely managed to get in the country due to “visa issues” much like any other person of Pakistani descent who tries to get in these days. Yet India wouldn’t dare do the reverse and go to Pakistan cause if nothing bad did happen, it would completely tarnish the propaganda Modi and co keep pushing out. So instead Pakistan has to travel outside its own borders, has to host a semi final outside its own borders, probably will have to host the final outside its own borders for a tournament they are hosting as a comeback to cricket after over 30 years of not hosting anything cause the BCCI and the Indian government can save face. That is why there is hatred and disgust for this, it’s a purely political farce that hasn’t been attempted to be hidden and that should have no place in the sport and instead should be about bringing people together rather than keeping them apart.
