No appeal filed against Mohammad Amir ban: PCB
The Pakistan Cricket Board has denied reports that it has filed any appeal with the International Cricket Council on behalf of banned pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675 seeking a review over the five-year ban.
“We have filed no formal appeal as such,” a board official cleared on Sunday. “Yes we have written to the ICC about the case in light of the observations made by the ICC anti-corruption tribunal regarding the existing anti-corruption code of conduct laws
under which Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Amir have been penalised,” he explained.
The official made it clear that the Board has nothing to do with the procedure that will follow after the ICC constituted independent tribunal banned the players and that only the players reserve the right to appeal against their bans.
He also said that the PCB had only asked the governing body to discuss the observations of the independent tribunal regarding the existing code of conduct at the next ICC Executive Board meeting scheduled to be held on 15 – 16 February, 2011.
The official further added that the Board was trying to convince the ICC to review the five-year ban on Amir because of his age. He, however, did agree with the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt’s point of view that there were minimal chances that the ICC Executive
Board would agree with the proposal.
The chairman of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 in a recent interview to a leading sports channel of Pakistan said that the punishment handed over to Amir would be discussed when the ICC Executive Board meets in Dubai in February in the light of findings
of the Beloff-headed three-member tribunal.
“There is a one in a million chance that the board will agree to review the ban on Aamer but we will discuss this issue in light of the tribunal recommendations,” the PCB chief had said on Saturday.
Butt slammed the trio for letting the Board, country and the game down with their acts and hoped that the rest of the cricketers would learn a lesson from the heavy bans imposed on the three players and will never even think of getting involved into such
activities.
Mohammad Amir, along with former Test captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in August 2010. Butt
and Asif were banned for 10 (5 years as suspended) and 7 (2 years as suspended) years respectively.
The banned trio holds the right to appeal against the punishment within 21 days of the verdict with the International Court of Arbitration for sports in Geneva.
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