PSL controversy! 'Culprit is me, not Shaheen' – Raza breaks silence on security breach

Fresh contention deed the Pakistan Super League arsenic Lahore Qalandars all-rounder Sikandar Raza and pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi were accused of breaching edifice information protocols aft 4 "unauthorised" visitors reportedly entered the team’s edifice room. According to a Punjab constabulary missive sent to PSL CEO Salman Naseer, Raza and Afridi allegedly "forcibly escorted" the visitors contempt anterior refusals from security. Raza, however, has powerfully refuted the allegations. He clarified that the 4 visitors were his long-time friends and household members, and that Afridi was lone assisting him astatine his request. "Shaheen did not unit anyone," Raza told ESPNCricinfo. "My friends and household had come, and astatine my request, Shaheen helped them [come up to my room]. If these were the SOPs, I wasn’t aware, and to immoderate extent, Shaheen was not alert either.

The culprit present is me, not Shaheen. He went down connected my petition due to the fact that it was my adjacent household and friends; I did not privation to conscionable them successful the concern centre. We sat upstairs for 40 minutes." Raza besides stressed the idiosyncratic context, noting that helium has known the visitors for 19 years and seldom sees his household and kids, who were besides portion of the group. "Please bash not hide that my household and relatives unrecorded here, and I bash not get to spot them each year," helium said.

He reiterated that Afridi simply followed his instructions and did not enactment independently. The constabulary missive claimed that support for the visitors had been sought from some the PCB information manager and Qalandars’ liaison officer, but these requests were denied. The missive suggested the refusals were ignored, and that the visitors stayed successful the country for 3 hours, contradicting Raza’s relationship of a 40-minute meeting. Sources wrong the Lahore Qalandars mostly confirmed the incidental but denied immoderate forced-entry occurred. PCB media caput Umar Farooq confirmed that the committee is alert of the incidental and successful connection with the PSL. The constabulary person urged the PSL to reappraisal the substance and forestall akin incidents successful the future.