ICC task team report: Pakistan soften stance

PCB COO Subhan Ahmad said that board had only dismissed the recommendations it felt were redundant or based.

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has softened its hard-line stance on recommendations proposed in an International Cricket Council (ICC) report on improving the organisation of the sport in the South-Asian country.

The ICC ordered a task team to compile a report on Pakistan cricket in the wake of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore and last year’s spot-fixing scandal but the PCB rejected a majority of the unit’s observations last week.

However, PCB Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad said that the board had only dismissed the recommendations it felt were redundant or based on inaccurate information.

“The constructive recommendations and proposals by the task team, which are good for Pakistan cricket, are under consideration,” Ahmad insisted.

“We are looking at ways to implement them soon.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2011.