PCB likely to challenge ICC’s provision of free elections and no political interference – Cricket News Update
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to challenge ICC’s provision of free elections and no political interference in cricketing matters.
Well placed sources inside Pakistan Cricket Board have disclosed that the board is keeping its options open for legally challenging ICC’s decision.
"We have this option (of challenging ICC’s decision) available to us,” revealed a PCB source. “We are studying the constitutional amendments made and suggested by the ICC,” he added further.
Another source said that they have not yet come to any conclusion regarding the recent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 directives and that they are waiting for Ijaz Butt to return home from abroad. Butt, who is on one month leave, is due to return home next
week. On his return home, the PCB chairman will, reportedly, contact the President of Pakistan, who also happens to be the patron in chief of the country’s cricket, as well as government officials, to discuss ICC’s proposed amendments.
"It is only after the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mal-Loye-c1879 discusses the issue with the President and government officials that we can come to a conclusion. But if things don't work out and the government says no then the legal option is available to us,
given the special circumstances of our cricket set-up," the source said.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hong-Kong-c2919 where the constitutional amendment was passed last month and he did not speak against the unanimous decision.
When asked, why PCB had not objected to the constitutional amendment when it was passed last month, the source said that would have served no purpose to object the decision as all other members would have approved the constitutional
amendment and Pakistan would have been left nowhere.
He also revealed that it was PCB which had asked ICC to give a two-year period for the implementation of the provision.
"But what we succeeded in doing was to get the ICC to give a two-year period for the implementation of the amendment by all member boards,” revealed the source.
“We are now studying all the pros and cons of this amendment keeping in mind our particular environment where government support is necessary for the sport in Pakistan," the source added further.
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