PCB keeps legal option open

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is keeping its option open of legally challenging the International Cricket Council (ICC) on the decision to have its members make constitutional amendments to ensure there is no government or political interference in the cricketing matters.

Well-placed sources in the board disclosed that the option of legally challenging the ICC move had not been dispensed with.

“We have this option available to us. We are studying the constitutional amendments made and suggested by the ICC,” one source said. He confirmed that the PCB had not objected to the constitutional amendment when it was passed at the ICC executive council meeting in Hong Kong last month for a specific reason.

“It would have served no purpose to object to it as all other members would have approved of the constitutional amendment and we would have been left nowhere. 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. 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.”