Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi recently participated in a social media space with fans.
Notably, Babar and Shaheen participated in a social media space with fans on the platform 'X', garnering a lot of engagement.
While the Q&A session with Babar drew over 20,000 fans, Shaheen's session attracted around 4000 fans.
According to a PTI report, the PCB was not one bit pleased with Babar and Shaheen’s decision to involve in the social media sessions, evidently arranged by their agent.
The report further claimed that the board is now considering a modification in clauses in the contracts of centrally contracted players to avoid such activities in future.
"The PCB will look to revisit some of the clauses that the centrally contracted players need to adhere to," PTI quoted a source as saying.
“The clauses covering the social media activities of contracted players are now being reviewed again by the board because it is concerned such public Q&A sessions could result in unnecessary controversies.”
The PCB and players are at loggerheads over the social media usage and NOCs for foreign T20 leagues since last year. The constant change in the PCB leadership has complicated the matter as well.
"Every PCB chairman has tried to run the board in his own way and in some cases, even ignored the written clauses of the central contracts and given special permissions to players in the past 12 months," the source noted.
As per the report, PCB’s recently-appointed chairman Mohsin Naqvi has asked for details about the central contracts with players and transcripts of all player interviews and social media content from recent months.
"Naqvi clearly wants a revised media policy for players and for this, the PCB could revise some clauses of the central contracts," the source added.
(With PTI Inputs)