Pak withdraws all cases against International Cricket Council

Pakistan Cricket Board has withdrawn all its legal proceedings against the International Cricket Council and 2011 World Cup Central Organising Committee for shifting 14 matches of the mega event out of the country, as part of its deal with the ICC.

The legal advisor of the PCB, Tafazzul Rizvi said today that all cases that the board had launched against the ICC and the World Cup committee were withdrawn after the dispute over the 2011 event in the subcontinent was resolved.

PCB had sent a legal notice to the ICC threatening to take them to court for shifting 14 matches of the World Cup from Pakistan due to security reasons, and at the same time had also filed a case in a civil court in Lahore against the shifting of the World Cup secretariat from Lahore to Mumbai.

"Since there is no dispute now with the ICC, we immediately took measures to drop our legal proceedings including those to be initiated by our lawyers in the United Kingdom," Rizvi said.

He said the notification to this effect has been sent to the ICC and World Cup organisers.

As part of the deal, Pakistan will be paid USD10.5 million as hosting fees of the 14 matches and another USD7 to 8 million as ancillary revenues which it would have earned from gate money, advertising and sale of hospitality boxes if the matches had been held in Pakistan.