New Delhi: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja has served legal notice to discarded wicketkeeper-batter Kamran Akmal for making offensive and defamatory comments in the media, PTI reported.
“I don’t know exactly what charges they have made against Kamran but apparently the legal notice has been sent because the chairman feels Kamran made defamatory, false and offensive comments in the media about him,” a source close to Kamran told PTI.
As per the report in PTI, other former Pakistani players, who own channels on YouTube, will also be served with legal notices as some of them ‘clearly cross the line while criticising the team, management, board and chairman’. Notably, some former Pak cricketers were quite harsh while criticising the national team following their back-to-back loses in first two matches and also after losing the T20 World Cup 2022 final against England. Some even came down heavily on skipper Babar Azam, calling for change in the captaincy.
“Some of them clearly cross the line while criticising the team, management, board and chairman and Ramiz has made it clear he is not going to tolerate anyone running down or defaming Pakistan cricket anymore,” the source told PTI.
PTI reports suggests, PCB’s legal team had been told to take immediate action if any comments by any former player on his own YT channel or on television channels is found to be defamatory, offensive, personal, false and damaging to Pakistan cricket.
Jos Buttler-led England defeated Pakistan by five wickets in a low-scoring T20 World Cup 2022 final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to lift their second World Cup trophy.
Brief score: Pakistan: 137/8 (Shan Masood 38, Babar Azam 32; Sam Curran 3-12) vs England: 138/5 (Ben Stokes 52*, Jos Buttler 26, Haris Rauf 2/23).