Pakistan Cricket Board’s legal claims rejected by ICC

by Mansoor Ehsan on May 15, 2009

Last week, the PCB sent a legal notice to ICC for a bad move to strip the country of its hosting rights to the event over security concerns, with the games being redistributed among the other co-hosts, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. Now, the International Cricket Council has rejected the PCB legal claims over the hosting of matches in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

“We used our response to clarify inaccuracies and misunderstandings in the PCB’s claim, including confirmation of the fact that the agenda and the board papers for the recent ICC board meetings did very specifically raise the question of whether the ICC CWC 2011 matches assigned to the PCB as joint hosts should be relocated outside of Pakistan”, said Haroon Logart, Chief Executive ICC. He continued on saying “We also pointed out that the ICC board agreed only that ICC CWC 2011 matches should be moved away from Pakistan, not that the PCB should be removed from its position as a joint host of the event itself.”

However, this is unlikely to be the end of the matter, as the PCB have asked for the case to be taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, while also filing a separate claim with a Lahore court protesting the ICC’s decision to move the tournament headquarters from Lahore to Mumbai.

Related Articles

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 UTP 05.16.09 at 12:21 pm

HA!!!

2 Chanakya 05.19.09 at 12:47 pm

it is also done by India.. and do you remeber the performance of pakistani team in 1999 world cup.. that was also done By India.. ya allah ye India kab jeene dega pakistan ko…

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>