PCB paid BCCI around $1.6 million in damages, reveals Ehsan Mani
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani has revealed that the governing body has already paid a sum of $1.6 million in damages/cost to India’s Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). PCB had accused the BCCI of false commitment causing it losses running into millions of dollars.
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
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
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