Allrounder Mohammad Hafeez has been issued a show cause notice by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for his comments regarding the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) procedure to identify bowlers with suspect actions.
“Basically, he (Hafeez) has been served a notice for criticising the ICC in an interview. He was sent the notice in on Friday evening through e-mail and has seven days to reply,” a PCB spokesperson said.
After being reported of flexing his elbow more than the permissible 15 degrees in a match against Sri Lanka in 2017, Hafeez was allowed to resume his bowling on May 1 following a reassessment of his action on April 17.
The results of Hafeez’s test at the Loughborough University showed that his elbow extension was within the permissible limit.
“There are so many things influencing all this – it has a lot to do with the power of (some) boards and nobody wants to take them on. Mostly there are soft corners and relations between people which no one wants to spoil,” Hafeez recently alleged.
