LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has summoned cricketers Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif to its Lahore office on Wednesday over the PSL spot-fixing scandal.
According to latest reports, the two players will be presented before the PCB's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) today, where their statement will be recorded. A formal charge sheet is likely to be fielded against them.
Three more players, Mohammad Irfan of Islamabad United, Quettas Zulfiqar Babar and Shahzaib Hasan of Karachi Kings were also quizzed but cleared of any wrong-doing.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has launched its own investigation which has resulted in the suspension of three players Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif and Nasir Jamshed all have represented Pakistan in international cricket.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan, while talking to the media outside the PCB headquarters in Lahore, said that the PCBs Anti-Corruption Unit will listen to the banned duos side of the story because it is important to hear their perspectives after which the punishment will be announced.
PCB Chairman said that suspended cricketers Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif will be subjected to the harshest of punishments if their alleged involvement in fixing during the Pakistan Super League is proven.
Sharjeel and Latif have been suspended by the Pakistan Cricket Board from the ongoing Pakistan Super League domestic Twenty20 tournament in the United Arab Emirates following accusations they met a suspicious person linked to an international betting syndicate.
Meanwhile, responding to a question over the staging of the PSL final in Lahore, the PCB chairman thanked Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Bajwa for offering his support to host the mega event in the country. He said the board is confident of holding the PSL final at the Gaddafi Stadium in March.
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