PCB withdraws cases against ICC

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has officially withdrawn all legal proceedings against the ICC and the 2011 World Cup's organising committee for stripping the country of hosting rights. Tafazzul Rizvi, the PCB's legal advisor, said that all cases the PCB had filed against the two parties after the dispute over the tournament had been resolved via an out-of-court settlement.

"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, adding that a notification had been sent to the ICC and the World Cup organisers.

As a result of the agreement between the two parties in Dubai earlier this year, where it was decided that the PCB would retain its hosting fee of US$10.5 million and receive payment as compensation for the loss of hosting rights, the board decided to withdraw its legal cases against the ICC.

The PCB had sent a legal notice to the ICC after it was stripped of its rights to host the tournament in the aftermath of the attack on Sri Lankan players in Lahore in March. A case had also been filed against the move of the World Cup Secretariat from Lahore to Mumbai.