http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board to provide list of the Players for World Cup on Dec 30th
PCB selection committee is going to hold a meeting on December 30 to decide and announce the preliminary list of 30 players for the upcoming World Cup Cricket event.
After the assurance by the board to provide a clear answer for the availability or non availability of the players for the event, the selectors have decided to meet on Dec 30. Providing details about the decision of the selection committee, a source at PCB
told the reporters, “The board has set a deadline for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314, Kamran Akmal, and Shoaib Malik to file all documents about their properties and accounts by next week and has decided to reach a decision by December 30.”
The source further disclosed that the integrity committee had also decided to meet the players on the same day, so that a final decision about their availability for the national team can be made.
“The Board is now moving quickly on this issue of clearance since the ICC has given them an extended deadline until January 5 to submit their World Cup preliminary squad.”
He also revealed that as all of the other participating nations had provided the lists of the preliminary squads, there was a pressure on PCB to not delay the matter further.
The source disclosed that the Governing Board of the PCB had also detailed a meeting to look into the issue of Malik, Kaneria and Kamran being given clearance by the integrity committee. In the meeting, chairman PCB Ejaz Butt put all the details of the issues,
which were keeping the three players from being included into the national team, before the Governing Board. He also discussed the way ICC was expressing its concerns about the matter.
The reporters also learnt from the source that it was decided at the Governing Board’s meeting to give the integrity committee a free hand to take the final decision about the three players.
While concluding the meeting, Members of the board agreed upon the fact that though players like Malik and Kamran were quite essential to be included into the world cup squad, it was also important to set an example for the next generations of the players.
At the end of the meeting, the board members decided to not to include any player into the preliminary squad if there was even a small doubt about his integrity to the game.
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