LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Anti-corruption Tribunal probing the spot-fixing charges on several Pakistani cricketers did not consider the applications submitted by two players, Khalid Latif and Shahzaib Hasan, who had requested to defer their suspension for the time being on their playing cricket.

PCB’s lawyer Taffazul Rizvi told media on Tuesday that the tribunal while not considering the applications, forwarded to its office without any action.

Taffazul said the tribunal could consider the applications if the petitioners would ask for it again. But in that case, the lawyer said he would also have the right to raise objections against hearing those petitions.

Taffazul avoided replying when he was asked if those petitions were not the tactics used by Khalid to delay the hearing process.

He said the verdict on Sharjeel, another accused cricketer of the case, would be announced by Aug 26.

The fourth accused player is long-discarded Pakistan opening batsman Nasir Jamshed who is also facing the allegation of spot-fixing reported in the second edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) earlier this year.

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2017