Pakistan’s out-of-favor batsman Kamran Akmal has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) saying that his younger brother Umar Akmal is “being treated unjustly” after the board objected to the reduction of his ban earlier this week.

Umar was banned for three years in April for failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year's Pakistan Super League (PSL) but an independent adjudicator last month reduced the 30-year-old’s to just 18 months by saying the latter’s confession regarding the match-fixing approaches on two occasions had left “no room for doubt as to the veracity of the charges”.

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However, the PCB isn't willing to see a senior player like Umar getting away with a reduced ban as the board takes all corruption-related matters very seriously and decided to appeal to the Swiss Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) against the reduction of Akmal's ban for an anti-corruption breach.

The PCB stated the decision to challenge the reduction of the ban imposed on Umar Akmal was made following a review of the independent adjudicator's order, which said the ban was reduced “on grounds of taking a compassionate view”.

The decision left elder brother Kamran disappointed as he felt even an 18-month ban was harsh on his younger brother as his career had already suffered a lot due to unjust selection decisions and past mistakes.

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Kamran said: “Umar is being treated unjustly because in the past he has always cooperated with the authorities in such cases and this time also he admitted the mistake of not reporting the matter to the authorities. Even the reduced 18 months ban is hard on him,”

Noteworthy, Umar was found guilty of not reporting two separate incidents of corruption-related approached and banned on April 27 as part of the PCB’s Disciplinary Panel under the Anti-Corruption laws by the Justice (retd) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan.

(With PTI Inputs)