Asian Cricket Council president, Jay Shah debunks PCB ‘unilaterally announcing the schedule’ statement

Asian Cricket Council president, Jay Shah has refuted Pakistan Cricket Board’s claim on Asian Cricket Calendar. Recently, Shah took to Twitter and announced the Asian Cricket Calendar by sharing the graphics. A few hours later, PCB chairperson, Najam Sethi took to Twitter and took a jibe at Shah, who also happens to be the Indian Cricket Board secretary. The former sarcastically asked Shah to announce the PSL 2023 schedule.

“Thank you @JayShah for unilaterally presenting @ACCMedia1 structure & calendars 2023-24 especially relating to Asia Cup 2023 for which Pakistan is the event host. While you are at it, you might as well present structure & calendar of our PSL 2023! A swift response will be appreciated,” Najam Sethi tweeted.

The Calendar was communicated to all the participating Asian Cricket Boards: Jay Shah

After Sethi’s statements, ACC issued a statement refuting the PCB chief’s statement. The statement said that the schedule was approved by the Development Committee and Finance & Marketing Committee. It added that the schedule was shared with the Pakistani board via email.

“It has come to our knowledge that PCB Chairman Mr. Najam Sethi has made a comment on the ACC President unilaterally taking the decision on finalising the calendar and announcing the same,” the ACC statement said. “The ACC wants to clarify that it has followed established due process. The calendar was approved by its Development Committee and Finance & Marketing Committee in a meeting held on December 13th, 2022.

“The calendar was then communicated to all the participating members individually, including Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), via an email dated December 22nd, 2022. While responses were received from certain Member Boards, no comments or suggested modifications were received from PCB. In view of the above, Mr. Sethi’s comments on a social media platform are baseless and are vehemently denied by the ACC.”