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The Pakistan Cricket Board has asked its centrally-contracted players to avoid giving media interviews without prior permission.
A senior PCB official told on Thursday that the board took this decision after controversial pacer, Shoaib Akhtar, was sent a show-cause notice after his hard-hitting interview on a television channel.
In the interview, Shoaib said that he could have taken legal action against the country's cricket authorities for making public his medical report in which he was diagnosed as suffering from genital warts'.
The player also claimed that the Pakistan team management conspired to get him thrown out of the Pakistan team for World Twenty20 in England.
PCB's director of operations, Zakir Khan, said “We have sent reminders to all the players who are under central contract to follow obligations and not give interviews without prior permission from us".
The PCB top brass was also unhappy over an interview given by opener Imran Nazir, who was recently cleared for national duty after quitting the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL). Nazir was later cleared following a hearing.
