A senior official of the Board announced that the disciplinary panel had deferred its announcements on the findings because of fresh developments. “Shoaib through his lawyer has provided us with some documents and material pertaining to some of the charges against him and these require some more study,” the Board’s chief executive Shafqat Naghmi said.
“We will not hurry any decision on the charges against Shoaib as we want to give him a fair chance to clear himself. But the decision will come definitely before the one-day series against South Africa,” Naghmi said.
The committee recorded the statements of Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Asif and manager Talat Ali. Sources say the documents submitted by Akhtar might have something to do with the leakage of the incident to the media from South Africa.
