Shahryar Khan vs Najam Sethi regarding PCB's MoU case against BCCI

[Abdullah719]

Najam Sethi is responsible for PCB's financial loss: Shaharyar Khan

KARACHI: Former chairman Shaharyar Khan has held his successor Najam Sethi responsible for the huge financial loss suffered by the Pakistan Cricket Board after the ICC's Disputes Resolution Committee rejected PCB's compensation claim against the BCCI.

"I was always in favour of continuing negotiations and talks with the Indian board officials and also spoke to ICC bigwigs. It was Sethi who wanted too and eventually got approval to file the claim with the ICC committee when he was heading the board," Khan said in an interview.

"The financial losses the board has now suffered, Najam Sethi is responsible for it."

Khan was succeeded by Najam Sethi as the Pakistan Cricket Board chief in August last year.

The ICC's Dispute Resolution Panel on Wednesday had ordered Pakistan to pay around USD 1.2 million to the BCCI after the world body rejected the PCB's compensation claim which blamed India for lack of bilateral series between the two nations.

Sethi came under fire for pursuing the failed compensation case and on Thursday he made several tweets, absolving himself of any blame and said it was the Board Of Governors who gave approval for going ahead and claiming compensation officially through the ICC committee.

Khan, however, made it clear that it was Sethi who persuaded and convinced the Board of Governors members to approve budget for the legal expenses and to file the case with the ICC.

"Even at that time I told him that our case didn't have much legal strength or basis and we would only suffer more financial losses, but he insisted on going ahead with it," he said.

"In May, 2017 when I was Chairman we sent a notice of dispute to the BCCI asking them to have talks over this matter. I held talks with the ICC Chairman, Shashank Manohar and senior BCCI officials who appeared keen to resolve the matter amicably and we agreed to continue these talks."

"Don't forget the matter was sent through lawyers to the ICC Dispute Resolution Committee in Sethi's tenure as Chairman not mine."

Khan expressed disappointment that the PCB had already suffered financial losses due to India not playing bilateral cricket with them.
"Now we have to also bear these heavy costs of the case and directly hold Najam Sethi responsible for this," he said.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-loss-shaharyar-khan/articleshow/67203450.cms

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ex Chairman PCB Sheharyar Khan says I was solely responsible for the decision to proceed against BCCI for violating a contract with PCB. This is utterly false and malicious. I intend to take action under the law.</p>— Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) <a href="https://twitter.com/najamsethi/status/1076894376377417734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Savak]

Lol, how many people is Najam Sethi going to sue? BCCI, Ehsan Mani and now Shyk? The guy must be loaded, maybe the PCB should send the BCCI and ICC bill to him after all if he can comfortably afford it

 

[trickyone]

I dont think he got any other choice since his rozi roti from PCB has been long gone...

 

[Varun]

Lol, how many people is Najam Sethi going to sue? BCCI, Ehsan Mani and now Shyk? The guy must be loaded, maybe the PCB should send the BCCI and ICC bill to him after all if he can comfortably afford it

No issues. Even if he loses, he can choose to pay the opposite lawyer's fees in a 50-year installment plan. All good.

 

[Hawkeye]

[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] there you go.

Shehryar, no matter how much clueless he looked at times, was a career diplomat and was always willing to talk to bcci. Even at times when bcci didn't want any, setting his ego aside.

This decision was not of Setting alone, yes, but it is what he wanted and got the approval from BoG. He wanted to stroke his ego and "fight" in the typical emotional style.

 

[Misia]

Why does he persist on calling it a contract, it was a memorandom of understanding

 

[Hawkeye]

Why does he persist on calling it a contract, it was a memorandom of understanding

Unable to get off his high horse.

In his delusional world, that was a contract and even after losing the case, he announced on Twitter how PCB shouldn't feel bad because they were only asked to pay 60% and not the full amount.

In his delusional world PCB won the case, or at least some part of it . Not ready to accept his blunder.

 

[Savak]

There would be no PSL without Najam Sethi. Shahryar Khan did not have the Cajones to take on the risky venture and even put all the responsibility of the whole event on Sethi's shoulders who kept on lobbying it could be done, it could be achieved and at the end after the PSL was successful, Shyk was willing to enjoy and share the limelight.

Shyk was the PCB chairman when the PCB decided to proceed with the lawsuit against the BCCI and he and Sethi held a joint press conference together, it is all the more convenient for him to now completely disassociate himself from the entire scenario given that it failed and pass all the bucks to Sethi. Rightfully Sethi is now going to set the record straight and prove that both of them were responsible for the lawsuit.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

From what I remember it was Sethi who kept pleading India to play a series almost every month at one point. Knowing full well that, that simply wasn't going to happen. I'm not sure if Sethi is solely to blame for this heavy loss that the PCB had to incur but he definitely gets the most blame for lodging legal action (something he clearly loves to do) against the BCCI even though the chances of the PCB winning the case were always slim given BCCI's influence over the ICC.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

There would be no PSL without Najam Sethi. Shahryar Khan did not have the Cajones to take on the risky venture and even put all the responsibility of the whole event on Sethi's shoulders who kept on lobbying it could be done, it could be achieved and at the end after the PSL was successful, Shyk was willing to enjoy and share the limelight.

Shyk was the PCB chairman when the PCB decided to proceed with the lawsuit against the BCCI and he and Sethi held a joint press conference together, it is all the more convenient for him to now completely disassociate himself from the entire scenario given that it failed and pass all the bucks to Sethi. Rightfully Sethi is now going to set the record straight and prove that both of them were responsible for the lawsuit.

I know you love Sethi but a) the PSL has nothing to do with this. And b) how do you know Sethi is blame less in this entire incident? Do you sit on the Board of Governers or are you in the PCB?

You're letting you biases get in the way of reality. And the reality is that Sethi was PCB chairman and directly responsible for lodging the lawsuit against the BCCI.

As if pleading India every few months to play a series or losing a case wasn't humiliating enough. Now we have to pay their legal fees as well and we have Sethi sb to thank for that.

 

[Savak]

I know you love Sethi but a) the PSL has nothing to do with this. And b) how do you know Sethi is blame less in this entire incident? Do you sit on the Board of Governers or are you in the PCB?

You're letting you biases get in the way of reality. And the reality is that Sethi was PCB chairman and directly responsible for lodging the lawsuit against the BCCI.

As if pleading India every few months to play a series or losing a case wasn't humiliating enough. Now we have to pay their legal fees as well and we have Sethi sb to thank for that.

My point is Shyk is not blameless in this episode, he was the pcb chairman at the time. Yes he was spineless but if he didn't believe in the lawsuit, he had the opportunity to stop it which he didn't. The rest of the bod made their own decisions

 

[Mamoon]

[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] there you go.

Shehryar, no matter how much clueless he looked at times, was a career diplomat and was always willing to talk to bcci. Even at times when bcci didn't want any, setting his ego aside.

This decision was not of Setting alone, yes, but it is what he wanted and got the approval from BoG. He wanted to stroke his ego and "fight" in the typical emotional style.

What else do you expect Shahryar Khan to say now that whole “honor the MOU” nonsense that he kickstarted has blown in PCB’s face? Shahryar Khan was obsessed with the idea that the PCB were entitled for bilateral cricket with India based on one letter.

You cannot hold talks forever, there has to be a closure at some point. Ultimately Shahryar Khan/PCB would have two choices: swallow their pride and accept that they simply wasted everyone’s time by talking about the MOU or take legal action.

The chances of the former happening were almost zero, and that is why I keep on insisting that no matter who the chairman was, the PCB would eventually have gone to court anyway because they were refusing to make peace with the fact that (a) the BCCI letter was non-binding (b) the BCCI cannot do anything unless the Government of India gives then the green signal.

 

[Savak]

What else do you expect Shahryar Khan to say now that whole “honor the MOU” nonsense that he kickstarted has blown in PCB’s face? Shahryar Khan was obsessed with the idea that the PCB were entitled for bilateral cricket with India based on one letter.

You cannot hold talks forever, there has to be a closure at some point. Ultimately Shahryar Khan/PCB would have two choices: swallow their pride and accept that they simply wasted everyone’s time by talking about the MOU or take legal action.

The chances of the former happening were almost zero, and that is why I keep on insisting that no matter who the chairman was, the PCB would eventually have gone to court anyway because they were refusing to make peace with the fact that (a) the BCCI letter was non-binding (b) the BCCI cannot do anything unless the Government of India gives then the green signal.

Shahryar Khan is only proving to be the weak incompetent administrator, chairman that he was. Basks in the glory of everything that goes well and passes the buck for failures rather than man up and accept responsibility for failure.

As chairman he had the power to stop Sethi and the BOG but he didn't