PCB set to take legal action against BCCI
KARACHI (PAKISTAN): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to take legal action against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for not agreeing to play two of Pakistans home series and not fulfilling the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) they had signed in 2014, according to cricinfo.
The PCB will seek compensation from the Indian board and also confirmed that Pakistan would not tour India next year as scheduled in the FTP because the cycle of bilateral fixtures had to start with Pakistan as hosts.
The last scheduled series between the two countries, in December 2015, was scrapped amid political tensions though the PCB kept the window open to fulfil the commitment. The PCB had offered India the choice of the UAE or Sri Lanka as a venue but India neither agreed to nor denied the proposal.
Our board has authorised us to take legal action against BCCI for not fulfilling their MoU, PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan told reporters after the governing board meeting in Karachi. They had signed to play six series in eight years, out of which two have already been missed. So now we are preparing a case against them so that we can say clearly that we deserve to be compensated.
We are also involving the ICC in the case because they were party to our bilateral agreement and they were the witness to our signing. Now its their responsibility to support us and settle our losses.
ESPNcricinfo understood that the PCB would send a legal notice to the BCCI and is likely to engage lawyers to pursue the matter in London. The PCB was encouraged to take a legal route only after the ICC recently awarded six points to the Pakistan womens team after the BCCI failed to establish acceptable reasons for not participating in the planned bilateral series, which was a part of the ICC Womens Championship.
