Pakistan Cricket Board’s medical chief, Dr Sohail Saleem has claimed that the PCB had forced him to resign after a bio-bubble breach led to the postponement of the season 6 of the Pakistan Super League in March even though he was not responsible for the fiasco.
Saleem, who headed the PCB’s medical and sports activities sciences division, was the one official to resign within the wake of the bio-bubble breach which forced the postponement of the PSL-6 in Karachi.
“I didn’t resign myself. The truth is soon after the postponement the PCB CEO Wasim Khan told me to resign. I knew that I had no choice because if I didn’t I would be sacked,” Saleem mentioned on ‘Geo News’ channel.
The PCB had to postpone PSL-6 abruptly after a number of gamers, together with foreigners Fawad Ahmed, Tom Banton, Lewis Gregory and a few native gamers and officers had contracted the virus regardless of remaining in a bio-secure bubble.
Saleem mentioned whereas he had designed the blueprint for the PSL-6 bio-secure bubble, he was by no means responsible for its monitoring and execution.
“I only gave them the blueprint. It was the responsibility of the PCB to run it. If they were breaches it is their responsibility not mine,” mentioned Saleem.
He mentioned he felt damage on the manner he was forced to resign by the Board after serving for 22 years.
“I had raised objections to some of the franchises conducting commercial shoots at the hotel and also on some other matters but no one listened to me. Yet today, I am blamed for the breaches,” he mentioned.
He famous that the PCB was now keen to pay an enormous sum of money to a overseas firm to design and run the bio-secure bubble for the remaining matches of the PSL-6 in June.
Saleem additionally claimed that regardless of his pleas, the PCB had refused to share the findings of the two-member inquiry committee fashioned to probe the bio-secure bubble breach.
