June 17, 2007	Sunday	Jumadi-us-Sani 01, 1428

KARACHI, June 16: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has served yet another legal notice, this time on a former PCB official – Arif Ali Khan Abbasi.

Recently, Chairman PCB Dr Nasim Ashraf, in a legal notice, served on Senator Enver Baig, had demanded a public apology from the Senator for the alleged use of derogatory remarks against the PCB chief.

Otherwise the member of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports was threatened to face millions of rupees in damages suit in the court of Law.

Enver responded that he was keen to face the PCB chief in court.

“The PCB has served a legal notice on me, saying that I am the chairman of the Pakistan Veterans Cricket Board. According to the PCB there can be only one cricket board i.e. the PCB and no other organisation can use the word ‘Board’,” Abbasi, who served the PCB in various highest capacities for 14 years, told the Voice of America (VOA) in an interview.

Abbasi while expressing his surprise over what he called the PCB ignorance, said: “They don’t know that the world has gone so forward that in modern era the word ‘board’ is no longer used. These days they call it ‘Cricket Australia’, ‘Cricket India’, ‘Cricket Pakistan’ and so on and no one uses the word ‘cricket board’.

“The army of officers in the PCB including their legal advisers don’t have the accurate information that I am not the chairman of the Pakistan Veteran Cricket Board that makes the legal notice invalid.”

According to some observers it’s surprising that the PCB chairman did not opt to ask the Jamaica police, government, the ICC even for an apology for the turmoil Pakistani nation and the players had to undergo after Bob Woolmer’s death while Dr Nasim wastes no time in serving legal notices up on those criticising PCB’s policy or chairman PCB.