India, Feb. 7 -- Chances of the India-Pakistan league match in the ongoing T20 World Cup going ahead as per schedule brightened after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formally reached out to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to initiate a dialogue.

This is for the first time that the PCB has shown interest in discussing the matter after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had made a social media post that Pakistan would not be taking the field in the T20 World Cup Group A match against India scheduled in Colombop on February 15.

It is understood that a series of events transpired in the interim that included PCB invoking the 'Force Majeure' clause citing government instructions not to participate in the match.

The ICC responded with qu...