Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ramiz Raja has served a legal notice to out-of-contention wicketkeeper batter Kamran Akmal for allegedly making defamatory and offensive comments in the media.
A source close to Kamran confirmed that he got a notice from the legal department of the board, served on behalf of chairman Ramiz Raja.
“I don’t know exactly what charges they have made against Kamran but apparently the legal notice has been sent because the chairman feels Kamran made defamatory, false, and offensive comments on the media about him,” the source said.
The source also confirmed that PCB has made it clear that more legal notices can be sent to other former cricketers as well, on their YouTube channels and in media criticizing the board.
“Some of them clearly cross the line while criticizing the team, management, board, and chairman and Ramiz has made it clear he is not going to tolerate anyone running down or defaming Pakistan cricket anymore,” the source said.
The source also said that PCB’s legal team had been told to take immediate action if any comments by any former player on his own YT channel or on television channels is found to be defamatory, offensive, personal, false, and damaging to Pakistan cricket.
This comes after several former Pakistani cricketers slammed the Men in Green team after they lost to India and Zimbabwe in the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia, before somehow managing to make it into the final, where they lost to England.
(PTI inputs)
