With world cricket's financial powerhouse India calling the shots and the Asia Cup set to be pulled from Pakistan and shifted to Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is caught between a rock and a hard place.
With Pakistan facing a financial crisis and its cricket board cash strapped, from this perch it certainly looks as if the wiggle room available to PCB chairman Najam Sethi, who arrived in Dubai on Tuesday to conduct talks with officials of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), is extremely limited.