Pakistan"s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has personally requested Ijaz Butt to review the Pakistan Cricket Board"s decision to slap him with a Rs3 million fine.
Sources said that Afridi met with the PCB chairman and urged him to reconsider the punishment which was handed out by the Board earlier this month for ball-tampering. Afridi, who has already filed an appeal against the fine, told Butt that he has already served punishment for ball-tampering and should not be punished for the same offence twice.
The experienced allrounder was caught by television cameras as he chewed the cricket ball during Pakistan"s fifth and final One-day International against Australia in Perth earlier this year. He was banned for two Twenty20 Internationals by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Later, a PCB probe committee that investigated into Pakistan"s disastrous tour of Australia recommended bans and fines for several leading national cricketers including Afridi. The PCB handed him a Rs3 million fine on the recommendation of the probe committee for ball-tampering which "brought a bad name for Pakistan". However, a few days later Afridi was appointed as Pakistan"s captain for the ICC World Twenty20 championship which gets underway in the West Indies from April 30.
Sources said that Afridi met with the PCB chairman and urged him to reconsider the punishment which was handed out by the Board earlier this month for ball-tampering. Afridi, who has already filed an appeal against the fine, told Butt that he has already served punishment for ball-tampering and should not be punished for the same offence twice.
The experienced allrounder was caught by television cameras as he chewed the cricket ball during Pakistan"s fifth and final One-day International against Australia in Perth earlier this year. He was banned for two Twenty20 Internationals by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Later, a PCB probe committee that investigated into Pakistan"s disastrous tour of Australia recommended bans and fines for several leading national cricketers including Afridi. The PCB handed him a Rs3 million fine on the recommendation of the probe committee for ball-tampering which "brought a bad name for Pakistan". However, a few days later Afridi was appointed as Pakistan"s captain for the ICC World Twenty20 championship which gets underway in the West Indies from April 30.
