PCB paid BCCI around $1.6 million in damages, reveals Ehsan Mani

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, Ehsan Mani, revealed that the governing body has approximately paid $1.6 million as compensation after losing the case it filed against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for allegedly not honouring a bilateral agreement. Earlier, the Pakistan board had filed a compensation case against the BCCI last year before the ICC's Dispute Resolution Committee, where it demanded a sum around $70 million. The ICC dismissed the case almost immediately and asked the PCB to compensate the legal cost to the BCCI.

"We incurred cost of around $2.2 million on the compensation case which we lost. The ICC committee did accept that Pakistan had a case and that is why the damages/cost we had to pay to the Indian board was around $1.6 million," Mani said as per PTI sources on Monday.

Mani insisted that besides the amount paid to India to cover the legal cost, the other expenses were related to legal fees and travelling allowances. As per Mani and the rest of the Pakistan cricketing board, the agreement with India was a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that guaranteed Pakistan six bilateral series between 2015 and 2023.

Pakistan claimed that the BCCI did not live up to the commitment, in turn causing losses to the PCB which amounted to millions of dollars. However, the BCCI have maintained that the discussion with PCB was a proposal and never a legally binding MoU. This claim was accepted by the ICC's dispute resolution committee.

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