Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday utterly waived off the 50 per cent match payment tremendous it had imposed on Azam Khan for displaying the Palestine flag on his bat in the course of the ongoing Nationwide T20 Championships right here.
Azam, the son of former Pakistan captain Moin Khan, was fined 50 per cent of his match payment by the PCB match referee two days again after he refused to take away the Palestine flag sticker from his bat.
The wicketkeeper-batter was discovered to have violated Article 2.4 of the PCB Code of Conduct For Gamers and Gamers Help Personnel for repeated failure to adjust to the instruction or directive of an umpire throughout a Match.
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The PCB didn’t give any purpose for utterly waiving the tremendous nor did it clarify whether or not Azam had agreed to take off the sticker from his bat for the remaining matches of the match.
“Azam Khan’s 50 per cent tremendous imposed by match officers has been reviewed and waived off by the Pakistan Cricket Board,” the PCB mentioned in a short launch.
“The Karachi Whites wicketkeeper-batter was fined 50 per cent of his match payment for being discovered responsible of committing a level-I offence throughout his aspect’s Nationwide T20 Cup 2023-24 match in opposition to Lahore Blues at Nationwide Financial institution Stadium, Karachi.”
As per ICC guidelines, gamers and group officers usually are not permitted to put on, show or in any other case convey private messages on their gear except accepted prematurely by each the participant or group official’s cricket affiliation and PCB Cricket Operations Division.
The tremendous led to a furore on social media with cricket followers and other people criticising the Board for imposing the tremendous.
The match by which Azam was fined was televised dwell. He was taking part in for the Karachi Whites in opposition to Lahore Blues.
Azam has not performed for the nationwide group since 2021 however is a widely known determine in Pakistan cricket circles as a result of his big-hitting skills within the T20 format and can be a daily on the franchise cricket circuits worldwide.
In the course of the latest ODI World Cup in India, Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batter Muhammad Rizwan had additionally tweeted in assist of the Palestine folks in Gaza however escaped any tremendous from the ICC, which mentioned it was his private opinion.