Ex-captain Rashid Latif claims Babar has been trying to reach PCB chief Zaka Ashraf but hasn't received a response; PCB official denies claim.
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THE Pakistan squad landed here in the city of joy on Saturday evening, with hardly enough things to be joyful about.
Babar Azam and his men are languishing sixth in the World Cup points table having won just two of their six matches so far, with their chances to make the semi-finals extremely narrow.
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The apparent fallout, according to Rashid and some media reports, has occurred due to ongoing disagreements over the players’ central contracts – the revised version of which is yet to be signed.
The players, the ex-wicket-keeper claimed,
haven’t been paid their salaries since the last five months and that there were still disagreements between them and the board over some clauses of the contract.
“Categorically” denying Rashid’s claim, the Pakistan team’s media manager and previously the PCB’s director media Umar Farooq Kalson, said Babar and all the other players were focused on cricket.
“The claim made by [Rashid Latif] was not true,” Umar told
Dawn on Sunday.
On Sunday night, Umar said the players had “started singing the contracts” after the documents were received by the team management here.
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Since September 2021,
the PCB has been run by three different administrations, two of them – that of Zaka and his predecessor Najam Sethi – have been interim setups.
While both Sethi and Zaka’s management committees were mandated to hold the pending elections of the PCB, they went on to carry out high profile recruitment and take cricketing decisions.
The fluctuating and differing nature of the board’s decision making has affected the team mentally ahead of and during the World Cup.