Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi throughout a press convention in Lahore on April 28, 2024.
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At least two players suffered critical accidents in a road accident involving some nationwide ladies’s team members earlier this month after they breached curfew and went out of the camp referred to as for the continuing white-ball house collection in opposition to the West Indies, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stated on April 28.
The PCB has taken disciplinary motion in opposition to the players, its chairman Mohsin Naqvi advised reporters right here.
He stated 5 to 6 players of the nationwide ladies’s team had gone out in the night in Karachi with out informing the team administration throughout the April 2-8 camp.
“They ended up getting involved in a road accident with at least two players getting intense injuries and they are now under treatment,” he stated.
Naqvi stated that since these players kind half of the team, the PCB had not publicised the incident in addition to the interior disciplinary motion taken in opposition to these players.
“What they did was wrong and as a result we have now appointed a full-time senior rank security police officer to be with the team round the clock and enforce proper timings.” The PCB chief stated the incident had an influence on the efficiency of the team in the ODI collection in opposition to the West Indies as one of many principal players, Fatima Sana was injured.
He didn’t describe the character or the seriousness of the damage sustained by Sana who, surprisingly, featured in all of the three matches of the ODI collection which ended on April 23 and which Pakistan misplaced 0-3.
Sana additionally performed in the primary of the five-match T20I collection on April 26.
Naqvi additionally stated the Board was additionally in contact with some candidates to be appointed as head coach of the Pakistan ladies’s team.
“We are talking to a high profile foreign coach,” he stated.