Pak NA standing committee to hold hearing on May 21

Published Thu, May 13 10 10:07 PM

Karachi, May 13 (PTI) Pakistan''s National Assembly standing committee on sports has summoned PCB officials, team management and former captains for a hearing on May 21 that will dwell into the inquiry report on the Australian tour and also the country''s performance in the Twenty20 World Cup in West Indies. Iqbal Muhammad Khan who heads the NA committee said that PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt, Chief Operating Officer Wasim Bari, chief selector Mohsin Khan, former captain and coach Younis Khan and Intikhab Alam, and the present captain, coach and manager of the Pakistan team have been summoned. "We have sent out letters to the Board for the hearing and we expect all of them to be present," Iqbal said. He said regardless of whether Pakistan won the T20 World Cup or not the hearing would be held as it was necessary to dwell into several important cricket issues affecting Pakistan cricket. "The things that have come out in the leaked inquiry report of the PCB on the Australian tour are cause for concern. The NA committee wants to know what action has been taken against players who supposedly took oath to not accept Younis Khan as captain," he said. He said the committee wanted a detailed briefing from the officials concerned on the things that had come out in the inquiry proceedings. "The former coach has called our players ''mentally retarded'' which is a really a serious matter and we want to find out if just punishing seven players is enough," he said. Iqbal said the committee was also interested in finding out the criteria followed in selecting the T20 World Cup squad. "We want to know how Misbah-ul-Haq continues to find a place in the side, we want to know on what basis is the team selection done and we want to know why some more deserving players were left out," he said. Iqbal said the committee would also inquire from the PCB Chairman the purpose of his flying out to the West Indies for the entire duration of the World Cup on Board expenses. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Senate standing committee on sports Ghaffar Qureshi told PTI that the "law ministry had given it clearance to directly write to the ICC to find out if they were any Pakistani players under suspicion or scrutiny for match-fixing." "We have got the clearance and we will now write to the ICC and if they want us to go through the PCB we can also do that but we want to know the truth that is all," he said. PTI COR DB

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