ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board has countersued Moin Khan with its own defamation notice in response to a suit filed by the former test captain earlier this week.
“The notice was served on Friday and now we are waiting for Khan’s reply,” PCB spokesman Mansoor Suhail said yesterday.
Khan demanded the PCB pay him 100 million Pakistan rupees ($1.3 million) in a defamation notice filed Wednesday over the cricket board’s claims he was involved in coercing batsman Mohammad Yousuf to join the rebel Indian Cricket League.
The PCB has responded by asking Khan to pay 250 million Pakistan rupees ($3.2 million) in damages for his allegations of wrongdoing by the board. “This instant reply should be treated as a notice ... and unless your client pays an amount of Rs250 million ($3.2 million) as damages within a period of 14 days after receiving this reply, appropriate legal action will be initiated,” PCB lawyer Tafazzul Rizvi said in the defamation notice. The notice alleges that Khan did not repay the full amount of a player fee to Yousuf at the time of signing his contract with the ICL last year. Rizvi said in the notice to Khan’s lawyer Imran Aziz Qureshi that Khan actually received $82,500 from the organizers of the ICL as the first installment of a player contract to be paid to Yousuf, “but the amount paid to Yousuf by him (Khan) was only $52,000.”
The notice further said that Yousuf returned the money to Khan when he came to know that any player participating in the ICL would be barred from representing his national team.
Khan joined the ICL in 2007 as coach of the Hyderabad Heroes team. He coached the Lahore Badshahs in the 2008 season.
