DUBAI – In a humiliating scenario for Pakistan, International CricketCouncil has Pakistan Cricket Board ordered to pay 60% of the Indian board’slegal fees as well as the costs and expenses of the panel.
The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) dispute resolution board onceagain ruled in BCCI’s favour after it had rejected PCB’s initialcompensation case against the BCCI.
The PCB had initiated legal proceedings against its Indian counterpart forfailing to hold up its end of the bargain in a Memorandum of Understandingsigned by the two boards that stipulated a certain number of bilateralseries between the two teams in return of Pakistan voting in favour of theBig Three.
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“The Dispute Panel has determined that the PCB should pay 60 per cent of:“(a) the [BCCI’s] Claimed Costs; and (b) the administrative costs andexpenses of the Panel which fall within the scope of paragraph 11.4 of theT/R (including, without limitation, the fees of the Tribunal members, andthe costs and expenses they incurred in relation to this matter), thefigure whereof is to be supplied to the PCB by the ICC,” said an ICCstatement.
