“Don’t Hold A Press Conference After…”: Wasim Akram’s Cheeky Advice For PCB | Cricket News

Pakistan’s iconic pacer, Wasim Akram, slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) choice to sack Salman Butt after 24 hours of his appointment because the marketing consultant to Chief Selector Wahab Riaz. Wasim took to X, slammed the PCB for his or her choice to take away Butt and acknowledged that the board ought to stick with their choice. “Don’t hold a press conference after every three minutes. Stick to your decision. You [PCB] should be aware of the consequences of your decision […] Think before [you make a decision]. Be brave,” Akram stated in a video he shared on X. Wahab Riaz convened a press convention on Saturday to announce that Butt’s identify was withdrawn from the consulting panel with instant impact, in accordance with ESPNcricinfo. The southpaw, who represented Pakistan in each red-ball and white-ball codecs, was suspended after pleading responsible to a spot-fixing incident throughout a Test towards England at Lords in 2010.

For his position within the 2010 spot-fixing scandal, Butt was sentenced to 30 months in jail and banned from taking part in cricket for 10 years. He was concerned in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls throughout a 2010 Test match towards England at Lord’s.

Butt’s appointment as a marketing consultant to the choice panel was met with robust resistance from inside the PCB. According to a report by ESPNcricinfo, an worker of the apex administrative physique of Pakistan Cricket was stated to be uncomfortable with the appointment of the contaminated 39-year-old former cricketer as a marketing consultant and threatened to resign.

Earlier, on Friday, the PCB named former gamers Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, and Butt as consultants to the chief selector. Their appointment was made with instant impact, with their first task being the upcoming five-match T20I sequence towards New Zealand.

The T20I sequence is scheduled to start on January 12 after the abroad tour of Australia, which can get underway on December 14.