LAHORE – The Pakistan Cricket Board has dismissed reports that it had filed any appeal on behalf of banned Pakistani pacer Mohammad Amir with the International Cricket Council. “We have filed no formal appeal as such. Yes, we have written to the ICC about the case in light of the observations made by the ICC anti-corruption tribunal regarding the existing anti-corruption code of conduct laws under which Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Amir have been penalised,” a PCB official said.
The official said that the right to appeal against their bans only rested with the three players and not with the board. “The PCB has nothing to do with the due process of law that will follow after the ICC tribunal banned them,” he said. He also said that the PCB had simply asked the ICC to consider the observations of the its anti-corruption tribunal regarding the existing code-of-conduct laws discussed at the executive board meeting due to be held from February 14.
“Like the PCB chairman has already said that the board was trying to get the ICC to review the five-year ban on 18-year Aamer in light of the observations of the ICC tribunal that too because of his age but knew their was a one in a million chance of the ICC executive board agreeing to this,” the official said. PCB chairman Ijaz Butt in a recent interview to a TV channel said that the ban on Amir would be discussed in light of the observations of the tribunal.
