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January 22, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spent more than Rs330 million on an arbitration seeking compensation from India but did not to retrieve any money, official record showed.
This amount is 100% higher than the PCB’s annual budget allocated for the country s best 192 cricketers merit-based stipends worth Rs169 million for the 2020-21 season.
Despite having a commitment to a parliamentary panel, the PCB failed to conduct any enquiry to ascertain reasons why Pakistan lost its case before the International Cricket Council’s Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF).
A parliamentary panel recently asked the PCB to determine the role of those officials of the board, who advised the management to file that claim without doing proper homework for compensation of some Rs4.5 billion against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani himself admitted that Pakistan did not tie all loose ends while claiming compensation of billions
Zahid Gishkori
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spent more than Rs330million on an arbitration seeking compensation from India but did not to retrieve any money, official record showed. This amount is 100% higher than the PCB’s annual budget allocated for the country s best 192 cricketers meritbased stipends worth Rs169 million for the 2020-21 season. Despite having a commitment to a parliamentary panel, the PCB failed to conduct any enquiry to ascertain reasonswhy Pakistan lost its case before the International Cricket Council’s Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF). A parliamentary panel recently asked the PCB to determine the role of those officials of the board, who advised the management to file that claim without doing proper homework for compensation of some Rs4.5 billion against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani himself admitted that Pakistan did not tie all loose ends while claiming compensation of billions of rupees after th
In this July 26, 2019, file photo, China’s Sun Yang leaves the pool deck following the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay heats at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. (AP Photo)
The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Swiss court has overturned an eight-year doping ban against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and ordered the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a second time but with a different chairman of the judges.
In February, CAS found the three-time Olympic champion guilty of refusing to cooperate with sample collectors during a visit to his home in September 2018 that turned confrontational. WADA brought the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after world swimming governing body FINA had issued the now 29-year-old Yang with only a warning.
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FILE - In this July 26, 2019, file photo, China s Sun Yang leaves the pool deck following the men s 4x200m freestyle relay heats at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Swiss court has overturned an eight-year doping ban against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and ordered the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a second time but with a different chairman of the judges. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
FILE - In this July 26, 2019, file photo, China s Sun Yang leaves the pool deck following the men s 4x200m freestyle relay heats at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Swiss court has overturned an eight-year doping ban against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and ordered the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a second time but with a different chairman of the judges. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, F