XtraTime Web Desk: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday decided to stick to its stance against banned former cricketer Saleem Malik. The former Pakistan captain was handed a life ban by the one-man judicial commission of retired Justice Malik Qayyum, which the PCB also implemented for his involvement in a match fixing probe in 2000. Malik was literally disappointed with the latest stance of PCB.
In a video message shared by Malik on Saturday, he said, ‘I was told to give a reply again by PCB which I did last month. I had already given them (PCB) a reply in 2014. I was cleared by Supreme Court and even got cleared by a civil court in 2008. I don’t know why they aren’t solving my case. They told me there has to be a certain format in which I have to send the letter to ICC. They even told me that the matter will be resolved in two days. I met then PCB chairman Najam Sethi, then COO Subhan Ahmed and PCB lawyer Taffazul Rizvi. The COO and the lawyer advised me to tender an apology and they will try to get me cleared from the pending inquiry on the ICC transcript.”
Saleem had claimed that when he was fighting his case in the civil court, neither the PCB nor the ICC presented any transcript against him before that court. But once he was cleared by the court, this (transcript-related) emerged.
Addressing Saleem’s request, the release said, “You chose not to respond to the contents of the transcripts of a conversation that took place in April 2000. In the backdrop of the above, the PCB will be unable to proceed any further until such time you respond on the said matter.
Even though Saleem was cleared by a civil court in 2008, the PCB charged him again after receiving a transcript, of his objectionable conversation, from the ICC. The conversation is said to have taken place in the UK in 2000.
