{"id":155524,"date":"2026-04-06T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155524"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:38:47","slug":"pakistan-calls-for-new-global-cricket-governing-body-to-replace-icc-to-keep-the-spirit-of-the-gentlemans-game-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/06\/pakistan-calls-for-new-global-cricket-governing-body-to-replace-icc-to-keep-the-spirit-of-the-gentlemans-game-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan calls for new Global Cricket governing body to replace ICC &#8216; \u201cto keep the spirit of the gentleman\u2019s game alive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Source:\u00a0 Facebook<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has called for the creation of a new global cricket governing body, saying the current International Cricket Council has become overly influenced by Indian political and commercial interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a social media post on Tuesday, Asif said a new organisation was needed to keep the spirit of the gentleman\u2019s game alive,\u201d accusing the ICC of being hostage to Indian political interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1481090724027313&amp;set=a.702366768566383\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1481090724027313&amp;set=a.702366768566383<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp; Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0 Facebook Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has called for the creation of a new global cricket governing body, saying the current International Cricket Council has become overly influenced by Indian political and commercial interests. In a social media post on Tuesday, Asif said a new organisation was needed to keep the spirit of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155525,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155524\/revisions\/155525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}