Asif, who is serving a one-year ban for failing a dope test during the IPL, has refused to pay the around Rs seven million legal-aid fee that the PCB has sought from him.
Controversial pacer Mohammad Asif, who is serving a one-year ban for failing a dope test during the Indian Premier League, has refused to pay the around Rs seven million legal-aid fee that the Pakistan Cricket Board has sought from him.
The PCB slapped the bill on Asif saying the money was spent on hiring a top law firm and other expenses of the board officials, who went to Dubai last year to help the cricketer during his 19-day detention there.
Asif, however, insisted he was never consulted by anyone about hiring the law firm in Dubai.
"The board official only came to see me once or twice during my 19-day detention in Dubai and he didn't ask me about my views on hiring the law firm," Asif said.
Asif was detained by Dubai authorities while on way to Pakistan after playing for Delhi Daredevils in the IPL, as 0.24 grams of opium was found in his wallet.
The cricketer, however, repeatedly claimed he didn't know the substance, which was prescribed to him by a local hakeem for an elbow problem, was contraband.
The PCB has been demanding the money from Asif since last year when they suspended the pacer from all cricket activities in July. The IPL drugs inquiry also banned him for one-year, which will end in September this year.
The PCB had sent its human resources director Nadeem Akram to Dubai to assist Asif and he has since been sacked.
Asif said he was already facing financial problems since the board had paid him nothing since last year because of the ban.
"I would just ask the board to sympathetically consider my position because I can't pay such a huge bill," he said.
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