Pakistan Cricket Board resolves spot-fixing row with Cricket Australia
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally resolved a week long fixing row with Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 (CA) that erupted after the chief executive of CA, James Sutherl, blamed the PCB for being responsible for the spot-fixing fiasco which rattled the cricket
world last year.
According to details, the PCB first asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to ask the CA chief for an explanation regarding his comments which did not go down well with the Pakistan Board. However, the ICC decided to stay away from the spat and asked
the two boards to resolve the matter mutually.
After the ICC’s request, the PCB chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmed, talked with Sutherl and according to details the CA chief clarified his position by saying that he did not mean to create an embarrassing situation for the PCB. According to him he was
just replying to a question by a group of journalists and had no intentions of criticising Pakistan’s cricket governing body.
The two boards have always enjoyed cordial relationships and aim to continue the same in the future.
Earlier, the CA chief had responded to a question regarding the implementation of Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum report by saying, “Ask yourself whether PCB actually went through and implemented those recommendations. I can't say for sure but I would have
big question marks about whether those things would have happened last year if those recommendations had been fully implemented."
According to the Qayyum report, Pakistan’s former middle-order batsman, Saleem Malik, and pacer, Ata-ur-Rehman, were banned for life while other six players including left-arm pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292 and current head coach of the Pakistan team, Waqar Younis, were
slapped heavy fines for match-fixing.
Apart from these bans, the Qayyum report gave thirty recommendations which suggested the introduction of a tough code of conduct for the players and a committee to be set up to investigate other matters of corruption in the country’s cricket system.
Earlier last year three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mazhar-c75448
Majeed.
The players were immediately suspended from taking part in the remainder of the tournament and later were banned by the ICC from taking part in any cricket event before clearing their names in an ICC hearing.
However, the charges against the players were proved and they were banned for a minimum of five years from the sport. According to the ICC, Butt has been banned for ten, Asif for seven and Amir for five years, during this time the players cannot take part
in any cricket related activity commissioned by the ICC or its affiliate cricket boards.
After this debacle the PCB has now enforced a new strict code of conduct for its players to avoid any such event from taking place in the future.
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