The big news: PCB backed by Board of Governors to take legal recourse against BCCI

The Pakistan Cricket Board was given the nod by their Board of Governors for taking legal action against the Board of Control for Cricket in India for not complying with the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two nations in 2014.

PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan, late on Friday, said he was given the green signal by the BOG to reprimand the BCCI for the losses that the Pakistan had suffered, “We will start legal consultations soon over the matter as the BOG has today given approval. The fact is that the BCCI signed a MOU document with us to play six bilateral series between 2015 and 2022,” Khan was quoted as saying by PTI.

“The International Cricket Council is witness to this MOU. We will now be consulting our legal team to take up the matter of India not playing us under the MOU with the BCCI and at the ICC level,” Khan added.

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