'Andy Pycroft masla nahi hai': Ex-Pakistan cricketer says PCB messed up

NEW DELHI: As the statement astir the handshake contention betwixt India nationalist cricket squad and Pakistan cricket squad continues to summation momentum, erstwhile Rashid Latif has questioned the attack of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), saying the committee is “going successful the incorrect direction” by targeting lucifer referee Andy Pycroft alternatively of addressing the existent issue.Latif said the 'handshake issue' cannot beryllium treated arsenic a breach of behaviour due to the fact that it is not mentioned anyplace successful the playing conditions oregon the codification of conduct.

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“A handshake was necessary. It’s a contented that has continued implicit the years. When we utilized to play, determination was hostility adjacent backmost then. Even successful those times, contempt the tension, we utilized to sojourn each other’s rooms — and players inactive bash that. They indispensable inactive beryllium doing it present arsenic well,” helium said.The PCB had lodged a ailment against lucifer referee Pycroft to the ICC, alleging that helium asked Salman Ali Agha and Suryakumar Yadav to skip the customary handshake astatine the toss.Explaining wherefore PCB’s statement against Pycroft is misplaced, Latif pointed to past examples involving Usman Khawaja and Moeen Ali.Moeen was warned by the ICC successful 2014 for wearing wristbands with slogans specified arsenic "Save Gaza" and "Free Palestine," portion Khawaja was issued a reprimand by the ICC successful 2023 for displaying a achromatic armband with a enactment connection for Gaza Strip.

“Now, coming to Andy Pycroft — erstwhile a lawsuit goes forward, you request evidence. You request by-laws. In the by-laws, conception 2.1.1, it is obscurity written that a handshake is mandatory. So what stance tin we adjacent instrumentality there?,” Latif said.“Where PCB should person raised the issue, they didn’t. In 2023, Moeen Ali and Usman Khawaja were fined 25 percent and reprimanded that they cannot show logos supporting Palestine oregon Gaza Strip, and that they cannot usage spiritual oregon governmental banners.

This is the contented PCB should person raised.“Andy Pycroft is not the issue. The contented is that subject matters were mentioned, governmental statements were made, and speech of attacks was done. This is what PCB should person raised. ICC would enactment them successful this regard.“A handshake is conscionable a gesture, not a rule. In a case, you request evidence,” helium said.