LAHORE: Former skipper Saleem Malik has termed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s release of a confessional letter ‘ridiculous’.
In a video message, Saleem Malik claimed that the PCB informed him via e-mail that his reply to the allegations is not correct. “There are a few mistakes in the reply that need to be corrected”, Malik said.
PCB responded to Malik’s letter to the board, it would be unable to do anything until he explains to the ICC why he had held a meeting with corrupt elements in England in April 2000.
It also urged the former national team captain to respond to the transcripts provided by the ICC. 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. Though Saleem responded to the fresh charge in his reply he sent to the PCB last month, the latter declared it as unsatisfactory and advised him to give a proper reply to the said charge.
Saleem said that last month he had replied to the above charge but now the PCB had come again with a new thing, quoting the apology he had tendered in 2014, just to get himself cleared.
It is pertinent to mention here that Malik was banned by the PCB on the recommendation of the famous Justice Qayyum report.
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