Lahore, April 01: Rejecting Younis Khan’s demand to give an explanation for the indefinite ban imposed on him, the PCB has asked the former skipper to first file an appeal against the penalties before seeking any justifications for the move by the Board.
”We have informed Younis in our reply that he must first file a proper appeal against the ban and then we will provide him with the justification for imposing the ban on him,” PCB legal advisor Tafazzul Rizvi said. ”Once he makes a formal appeal then we will follow due process of law and send him our detailed reply and he can decide if he wants to pursue the matter with the appellate tribunal we have formed to look into any appeals by players recently disciplined by the board,” he wsa quoted as saying by ‘The News’.
Last week, Younis had sent a notice to the PCB seeking explanation from the Board for the charges on the basis of which it banned him. However, the Paksitan Cricket Board, in its reply to the senior player, has made it clear that it was not compelled to give any explanation for the ban.
But Younis’ lawyer Ahmed Qayyum said the senior player has every right to know on what grounds he was banned. ”In the letter sent to Younis, the board failed to give clear reasons that prompted them to take such an action against my client that is why we sent them notice,” he said. Meanwhile, Pakistan all-rounder Rana Naved-ul-Hasan has sent a legal notice to the PCB to explain why he was banned for a year and fined heavily.
”Naved has sent a legal notice to us in which he has inquired about the reasons of his punishment and we will soon respond to it,” Rizvi said.
Naved was one of seven Pakistani players who were handed bans and fines last week, following an inquiry into team’s humiliation in Australia, where it lost all three Tests, five One-day Internationals and a Twenty20 match on the tour of Australia between December and February.
While, former captains Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf were banned indefinitely ‘over infighting which brought the team down’, Shoaib Malik and Naved were banned for one year and fined two million rupees each.
All-rounder Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umer Akmal were also fined heavily.
While Afridi was the first to appeal against his punishment, the former skipper Malik, who is due to tie the knots with Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on April 15, and the Akmal brothers are also likely to appeal against the PCB penalties.
——-Agencies