3 min readFeb 4, 2026 01:15 PM IST With the Pakistan government taking the decision to not take the field against India in the group stage match of the T20 World Cup in Colombo on February 15 in support of Bangladesh pulling out of World Cup, recent days have seen the International Cricket Council (ICC) warning Pakistan Cricket Board to reconsider the decision. With PCB yet to inform the ICC officially about the decision, the situation remains unclear. Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin believes the match will happen with the stakes on the match being high and if Pakistan does not play the match against India, there will be implications, including players not coming to play in Pakistan’s domestic T20 league, the Pakistan Super League. “100 percent, the match between India and Pakistan will happen. I feel that it will happen. The next 3-4 days will see these decisions being overturned. And that’s my hunch and I hope I want to see the India-Pakistan encounter. Because there are a lot of business decisions in this. …