PCB refers Umar Akmal subject to Disciplinary Panel Chairman

After figuring out that Umar Akmal has now not asked for a listening to ahead of the Anti-Corruption Tribunal, the Pakistan Cricket Board has referred the subject to the Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan, former Lahore Prime Court docket Pass judgement on, the PCB mentioned on Thursday.

The PCB made the choice after analyzing the contents of Akmal’s answer by which no written request for a listening to ahead of the Anti-Corruption Tribunal have been made for the needs of contesting legal responsibility or stage of sanction or each as in line with Article 4.6.6 of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code.

In line with Article 4.8.1 of the Code, the Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel, shall now factor a public choice confirming the offences underneath the Code specified within the Realize of Rate and implementing appropriate sanctions.

The affirmation of the offences might be adopted by way of levying appropriate sanctions, which in Akmal’s case vary from a six-month suspension to a lifestyles ban.

“Till the Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel has introduced his choice, the PCB is not going to remark at the subject,” reads a PCB liberate.

Akmal have been provisionally suspended on February 20 and used to be issued the awareness of fee on March 17. The PCB officially charged Akmal with two breaches of its anti-corruption code for 2 unrelated incidents on March 20.