By Admin 
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering action against Pakistan for ‘violations of several rules of tournament’ before the Asia Cup match against the United Arab Emirates. The team delayed the match in protest against the rejection of its demand to remove the match referee Andy Picroft by the global operating institution.
The ICC has sent an email to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) before the match held on Wednesday that cited ‘many violations’ of the ‘wrong conduct’ and the field of players and match officials (PMOA) protocols.
A source associated with the tournament told PTI, “ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta has written a letter to PCB saying that the board is guilty of repeated violations of PMOA rules on the match day. PCB has got email. ”
It is learned that despite several warnings, Pakistan violated the rules by allowing media manager Naeem Gilani to film the meeting between Picroft, his head coach Mike Hessen and Captain Salman Ali Aga before the toss.
The ICC had made it clear that media managers are not allowed to attend such meetings. The team initially refused to leave the hotel, holding Pycroft responsible for the controversy of ‘not joining hands’ in the match against India, due to which Wednesday’s match started with an hourly delay.
The PCB alleged that during the toss on Sunday, Pycroft had stopped Salman from joining hands with his Indian counterpart Suryakumar Yadav, who made it clear that the Pahalgam was not joined to show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack.
The ICC had agreed with the PCB that the picroft would meet the captain and manager of the team before the toss of the Picroft match to help resolve the match related to the match against India.
The source said, “It aims to remove any unfortunate misunderstanding or wrong dialogue that arises during the toss.” He said, “PCB brought his media manager to the meeting and insisted that he will be present during the conversation.”
The media manager was refused to give admission to the ICC’s Anti -Corruption Manager as he wanted to take his mobile phone to the PMOA, which has strong control.
The source said that the PCB threatened to withdraw from the match when the media manager was not allowed to be present during the meeting and then insisted on filming the conversation (without audio) which was another violation of the PMOA rules.
The source said, “The ICC accepted the PCB demand to maintain the interest of sports, tournament and related stakeholders, although it violated the rules related to PMOA.”
The ICC was also not told how PCB is planning to use the film filmed footage. The ICC has also objected to the PCB media release, claiming that Picroft had ‘apologized’, while in fact he had only regretted only one wrong communication.