The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today rubbished Darrell Hair's charges of racial
discrimination and said former captain Inzamam-ul Haq was not obliged to appear
as a witness in the Australian umpire's case against the ICC.
PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf said that Inzamam was not obliged to appear
as a witness for which he has been summoned by Hair's legal counsel.
The summon was served to Inzamam while he was in England
playing for Yorkshire but has since returned home.
Ashraf revealed that Inzamam had not approached the PCB for
any help as yet but if he did, the board would support him wholeheartedly.
"Hair's charges are nonsense as the entire ICC executive
board took a decision against him because of his own doing," he said.
The hearing into the case began in the Central Employment Tribunal
in London yesterday.
Hair's counsel has told the tribunal that the ICC bowed to pressure from the
Asian countries when it sacked his client in the aftermath of the infamous Oval
Test fiasco last year during which he charged the Pakistanis of tampering with
the ball.
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