Re: ‘ECB annoyance made PCB give Rashid cold shoulder’
“This meeting was held in the chairman’s office at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Feb 26, 2014 between 3.00pm and 4.00pm,” continued Rashid.
“PCB chairman told me ‘you are a great supporter of Danish Kaneria and ECB have reservations on this, that’s why the PCB may have problems with the ECB if you take over as head of Anti corruption of PCB. Maybe England will not play against Pakistan in future because of this.
“COO Subhan Ahmed was also present in meeting and he also agreed with chairman PCB, I fail to understand why they are denying it now?”
Latif further wrote: “I am not a big supporter of Kaneria but I want justice for him because I think both PCB and ECB may be involved in his exit from international and domestic cricket to protect English county cricket. Why, I may ask, did Zaka Ashraf, and now Sethi, support Mohammad Amir’s case so vociferously in the ICC meetings, why couldn’t they demand a fair inquiry into Kaneria’s case?
“Amir, in fact, is a proven culprit in spot-fixing case and is serving his ban for that, but nothing has been produced against Kaneria in black and white by either the ECB or the ICC, at least not for the media to assess openly and judge for themselves,” argued Latif.
**“Here, I must point out that neither myself nor the PCB chief had said anything to the media about the above-mentioned meeting on ECB pressures before today. However, I am compelled to put the facts right since the PCB has denied a story which was absolutely true,” Latif concluded.
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Sethi admits to ECB reservations over Latif appointment - Sport - DAWN.COM
This is another signal I am getting that the games Pakistani nation accuses of being fixed are rather fixed by the boards and not necessarily players, the “losing team board” probably manipulates/misguides its players/captain so there is disturbance in the camp and they end up losing. BTW I am not suggesting only PCB does that, rather its wide-scale-game, many if not majority of boards are pulling strings to keep certain populations interested enough.