KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering legal action against England batsman Jonathan Trott after his clash with bowler Wahab Riaz before the fourth one-day international at Lord's, a board source said on Friday.
PCB chairman Ijaz Butt had conferred with his legal team over the possibility of filing legal action against Trott for allegedly calling Riaz ‘a match fixer’ while the two teams were warming up in the nets, the source said.
The two players scuffled and had to appear before the match referee over the incident, with Trott apologising to Riaz.
‘There is a strong likelihood that the PCB, in a tit-for-tat response to the threat by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to sue Butt over his remarks against English players, will go after Trott,’ the source said.
On Thursday, the ECB demanded a ‘full and unreserved apology’ from Butt for his allegations that England players had engaged in match-fixing.
Butt told a Pakistan television channel, after England lost the third one-day international at the Oval last Friday, that there had been ‘loud and clear talk in bookies' circles that some English players were paid enormous amounts of money to lose the match’.
His comments came after the International Cricket Council (ICC) launched an inquiry into Pakistan's scoring pattern at the Oval after receiving information from a British newspaper.
The Pakistan team returned home from their tour earlier on Friday, to a quiet reception.
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