Date:14/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/14/stories/2008021456782000.htm

Sport - Cricket

Akhtar ignores PCB notices

Karachi: Shoaib Akhtar has gone on the warpath with the Pakistan Cricket Board insisting he will not respond to any notices sent to him by the PCB over his recent critical statements in the media.

Akhtar told reporters after the Pentangular Cup match between Federal Areas and Punjab at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Wednesday that since he was not a contracted player of the PCB, the board had no right to question him over what he said in the media. “I am not contracted to them. So I am not bound to respond to their notice. How can they seek any explanation from me,” he said.

“They can send me as many notices as they want but I know my rights and when I am not contracted to them I am not going to answer them.” — PTI