October 09, 2007	Tuesday	Ramazan 26, 1428

LAHORE, Oct 8: Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s lawyer has lodged a complaint with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) regarding all-rounder Shahid Afridi’s recent press statements and has urged the board to take action against the player over the same.

Sources told Dawn that a written complaint was handed over to PCB’s GM Operations Subhan Ahmed on Monday.

Sources said that Shoaib’s lawyer Bilal Minto had claimed that Afridi, while talking to reporters last week, said that he did not leak the news of the Shoaib-Asif brawl in South Africa and suspected some of the PCB officials of spilling the beans at the time.

The lawyer contested that while his client (Shoaib) is facing charges for similar ‘violations’, the board is not ready to take any action against Afridi, thus showing discrimination.

Shoaib is currently serving a ban for an indefinite period and is facing several charges including that of hitting fellow fast bowler Asif in South Africa, addressing a press conference without the permission of PCB in Lahore and critisising the decision of the PCB’s anti-doping committee which recommended a ban for the controversial pacer last year.