NEW DELHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi arrived at the ICC headquarters in Dubai on Friday, putting to rest speculation that he might skip the meeting. Naqvi's past record of skipping ICC Board meetings had raised doubts, but he is now understood to be attending the ongoing session, Cricbuzz reported.
Naqvi, who also serves as the ACC chief, had skipped the annual conference held in July in Singapore. With the Asia Cup trophy issue reportedly on the agenda this time, doubts had once again surfaced over his attendance.
Naqvi also holds the interior minister's position in his country and has not attended ICC meetings after Jay Shah was elected chairman of the world body last year.
The PCB chairman, who has faced criticism for withholding the Asia Cup trophy that officially belongs to India, made a last-minute appearance at the ICC meeting on Friday afternoon. Reports suggest that the long-pending trophy dispute is among the key topics being discussed at the meeting.
Naqvi is supposed to face the BCCI's ire for not handing the trophy after the winning players refused to accept it from him due to his anti-India statements.
The Asia Cup Trophy lies locked in the Asian Cricket Council headquarter in Dubai despite the final being held back in late September.
The Pakistan minister was at the centre of the trophy controversy when he had it sent to the ACC secretariat in Dubai. He has since insisted that the Indian team must accept the trophy from him and has ordered the ACC staff not to move the silverware without his permission.
The BCCI wrote a letter to the ACC asking for the trophy to be sent to Mumbai but Naqvi is insisting that it will be handed over to a BCCI representative and a member of the Indian team only by him at a function in Dubai on November 10.
