It's PCB, not ICC against Pakistan: Mani

DUBAI: A former president of the International Cricket Council blamed Pakistan cricket authorities for the state of the game in the country and denied the ICC was picking on Pakistan.

“ICC is not against Pakistan, it’s Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) which is against their cricket and has not sorted out their problems, forcing the ICC to take the matters in its hands,” Pakistani Ehsan Mani said.

“The way PCB is being run, it is only to protect the position of one person,” said Mani, ICC president 2003-2006, without specifically naming under fire PCB chairman Ijaz Butt. “The PCB should have taken the lead and sorted those things out,” Mani said.