Pakistan Cricket Board watching http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-c89347 Afridi’s every move – Cricket News Update
Pakistan’s former one-day skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hampshire-c789.
A PCB official talking on the subjected revealed, “Afridi is still being monitored closely. The board is keeping a hawk eye on his interviews. Any harsh statement against the board may lead him to trouble again. He will have to apply for NOCs for other tournaments
again and any foul play will surely block his participation.”
According to sources, the board members are still not http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arthur-Percival-Day-c45927 with the attitude of the flamboyant all-rounder and are willing to go a step further in penalizing the former Pakistan national in case he gives another interview criticising the PCB.
Afridi who retired from international cricket on May 31, 2011, had his central contract with the PCB immediately terminated. However, the board can still take action against the hardest hitter of the ball within a year of his retirement.
“The PCB still has the right to take action against him and block his participation in foreign leagues. Legally, the board can take action against a player within 12 months after the suspension of the central contract,” the source added.
Earlier this month Afridi ended up in a spat with the PCB, when he smacked the board of being run by incompetent people, which were bad for Pakistan cricket.
He alleged that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, the chairman of the PCB, was destroying cricket in the country and needed to be replaced.
These remarks irked the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760.
Butt, who had vowed to stamp out player power from the country’s cricket, replaced the hot-headed Afridi with the mild mannered http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972, who has been leading the Pakistan Test side since late last year.
After Afridi’s retirement as a result of his removal from captaincy, the PCB revoked his NOC, however, the all-rounder decided to take the matter into court in order to redeem the NOC.
The whole debacle was stopped from taking an ugly turn after an intervention from Rehman Malik, the interior minister of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
Both Afridi and Butt agreed to resolve the matter mutually and consequently, Afridi presented himself in front PCB’s disciplinary committee, which slapped him with a fine of 4.5 million Rupees and then reinstated the required NOC for the county tournament.
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