KARACHI, May 2: The Karachi City Cricket Association has pledged its support to the Pakistan Cricket Board after a misunderstanding between the two organisations resulted in the association boycotting the final One-day International and the Twenty20 game against Bangladesh last month.

Prof Sirajul Islam Bukhari, the long-serving KCCA secretary, welcomed on Friday PCB Chief Operating Officer Shafqat Naghmi’s statement in which the board official has stated that KCCA’s plea of signing the Memorandum of Understanding may be discussed at the next meeting of PCB’s governing body.

“I agree this [the governing body] is the proper forum to discuss the problems faced by a senior affiliated unit of the PCB.

“It was unfortunate that some misunderstanding prevented the KCCA from playing its role in organising the recent ODI and the Twenty20 International against Bangladesh,” Bukhari said.

He hoped such matters would be handled tactfully by the PCB because the KCCA can’t afford any confrontation with the board, which is arguably the richest sporting body in the country.

Bukhari lauded the services of PCB chief Dr Nasim Ashraf for taking proper steps to ensure good relations with all the affiliated associations while assuring the KCCA would reciprocate positively and extend its support and cooperation to the PCB in the supreme interest of Pakistan cricket.

Bukhari further applauded the PCB’s selection committees for giving talented players of the city proper opportunities to represent the country in international cricket as well as including seven of them in the PCB emerging players’ programme, which runs from May 20 to Sept 25 at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.