Pak to support if India moves no-confidence motion against Speed

The PCB will support its Indian counterpart BCCI if the latter initiated a vote of no-confidence against ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed and other the top officials, sources close to the PCB have said.

Karachi, May 1 : The PCB will support its Indian counterpart BCCI if the latter initiated a vote of no-confidence against ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed and other the top officials, sources close to the PCB have said.

The next ICC meeting is slated to take place in June, when the likely no-confidence motion by India is expected to take place.

Earlier, BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah had dropped enough hints that India could consider initiating a move to get rid of Speed because under him the ICC was becoming "more and more bureaucratic".

"The ICC is costing its members money by unnecessarily employing so many people," Shah had said.

Sources also said that the PCB officials have been closely observing this development and are willing to support the proposed move when the time comes. Like India, Pakistan too has had its problems with the ICC in recent times, especially during and after The Oval fiasco in England last summer.

They added that Pakistan would throw their weight behind a proposal to get an Asian or an African appointed as the ICC Chief Executive.

The proposal has been made by Lalit Modi, BCCI's vice-president. Dr Ahsan Malik, PCB's Media Director, told this correspondent that so far there haven't been any discussions among the Board officials on this issue.

ANI