Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi’s Social Media Activity Draws Pakistan Cricket Board’s Ire, To Revisit Contracts | Cricket News

The Pakistan Cricket Board just isn’t pleased with former skipper Babar Azam and the present nationwide T20 skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi taking part on an area with followers carried out on social media platform ‘X’. The Q and A periods on ‘X’, previously Twitter, did affirm the recognition of Babar regardless of shedding the captaincy as his session drew greater than 20,000 followers whereas Shaheen’s Q and A session was joined by round 4000 followers.

But a supply within the PCB stated the choice by the 2 senior gamers to go forward with the social media periods clearly organized by their agent had not gone down properly with the cricket board.

“The PCB will look to revisit some of the clauses that the centrally contracted players need to adhere to,” the supply stated.

“The clauses covering the social media activities of contracted players are now being reviewed again by the board because it is concerned such public Q and A sessions could result in unnecessary controversies,” he stated.

The PCB and gamers have been at loggerheads over the utilization of social media and the NOCs points for overseas T20 leagues since final yr.

The indisputable fact that the PCB has a fourth Chairman since December 2022 has not helped issues and the supply stated this has led to lack of readability between the gamers, their brokers and the board.

“Every PCB chairman has tried to run the board in his own way and in some cases, even ignored the written clauses of the central contracts and given special permissions to players in the past 12 months,” the supply added.

The supply stated the brand new chairman Mohsin Naqvi had requested for particulars in regards to the central contracts with the gamers and in addition requested for transcripts of all interviews and social media content material of gamers for the previous couple of months.

“Naqvi clearly wants a revised media policy for players and for this the PCB could revise some clauses of the central contracts,” the supply stated.