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| August 26, 2005 | Friday | Rajab 20, 1426 |
Ex-Test player threatens legal action against PCB
LAHORE, Aug 25: President of the defunct Punjab Cricket Association (PCA), Ijaz Butt, threatened on Thursday that he reserved the right to file a criminal case against the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for breaking the locks of the PCA offices situated at the Qadhafi Stadium.
Talking to reporters, Ijaz, who was a secretary of the then Board of Control of Cricket in Pakistan (BCCP) in the 1980s, said that the PCB broke the locks without giving notice to the PCA.
“No law permits anyone to unlock the building of others without informing but the PCB did it,” he said.
The PCB chairman, Shaharyar M. Khan, had dissolved all the four provincial cricket associations in 2004. The associations were formed by the previous chairman Lt Gen Tauqir Zia.
He negated the impression that the defunct PCA had delayed in submitting the accounts.
“We have sent the tentative details of the accounts while the PCB itself is responsible for the delay in completion of the final accounts.
“We had been writing various letters to the PCB officials asking them to give us details about the revenue generated through the matches of the home series against Bangladesh, South Africa held in parts of Punjab, so that, the PCA could adjust it with the expenditure,” the former Test player said.
He said that for example the PCA held the match in Multan against Bangladesh but the Multan Cricket Association sent the revenue of Rs1.8million directly to the PCB.
Ijaz said that he had closed the correspondence as the finance department of the board was not cooperating with him.
Ijaz said that in fact the PCB itself did not know the exact figure paid to the PCA. It had been claiming the funds were Rs5.3m but it was more than that.
He claimed that after holding the Bangladesh series the then PCB chairman had given major control of the organizing matters to Arif Rahim, the PCA senior vice president.
“I am sure that the revenue of the series against Bangladesh were more than the South Africa and New Zealand series despite the fact it was a low profile as compared to two (South Africa and New Zealand)”, Ijaz pointed out.
He said that the PCB paid Rs625,000 and another amount of Rs50,000 in advance for organizing the under-19 inter-region tournament and its final vide letter dated Aug 26 and Sept 1, 2003.
Similarly, he further said, Rs2.4 million was given as advance money for organizing the Bangladesh/South Africa series vide letter dated Aug 28, 2003 at the rate of Rs300,000 per match. But the PCA total expenditure for organizing Bangladesh and South Africa series were Rs412,660.
Ijaz remarked that according to MoU signed between the PCB and the PCA, the board was entitled to retain 30 per cent of gate income generated from ODI matches and the PCA was allowed to receive all income of Test matches. The remaining 70 per cent income of the ODI in the pool was to be distributed according to the formula to be decided after the series.
“Needless to mention that the PCA’s share from the 70 per cent of the income generated from ODI and 100 per cent from Test matches were not remitted to us,” he said.
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