Pay fine or forget T20 Championship, PCB tells Shoaib

Karachi, Sep 16 (PTI) The Pakistan Cricket Board (P.C.B.) has told Shoaib Akhtar to forget about playing in next month's National Twenty20 Championship unless he pays the Rs seven million fine imposed on him for indiscipline or gets a favourable ruling from the court.

Confusion prevailed at the launching ceremony of the
prestigious tournament when Shoaib's name was missing from the
list of players from his region, Islamabad.

Later a PCB spokesman confirmed that Shoaib's name was
submitted by the regional team as the 16th player of the side.

"They gave us a list of 16 players but in the slides only
the names of 15 players were shown. That is why there was some
confusion about whether Shoaib was part of the Islamabad side
or not," Raza Rashid, the spokesman, said.

But he said as per the board's policy, Shoaib was
required to first pay the fine of seven million rupees or get
a ruling from the court against the fine before he can play in
Pakistan's premier domestic event.

"The board's policy is very clear on this," he said.

Shoaib had a five-year ban imposed on him by PCB's
disciplinary committee, which was subsequently reduced to 18
months by an appellate tribunal in June which heard his appeal
against the ban for disciplinary violations.

But the tribunal, while reducing the ban, also asked him
to pay the fine of seven million rupees.

Shoaib has filed a writ petition in the Lahore high court
against the ban and fine but the court, while suspending the
ban, have given no order on the payment of fine. PTI COR AY
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