Islamabad
\nFormer Pakistani spinner Saeed Ajmal on Monday said that Indian cricket has a lot of money as well as some very strong sponsors, which is why the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is financially stable.
\nSpeaking to a private TV channel, Ajmal also spoke about his popular spinning technique, doosra, and the ban imposed on him by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
\n\u201cThe ICC restricted Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin from bowling for six months before levelling allegations against me,\u201d said Ajmal.
\nHe said that Ashwin was told to rest for six months, West Indian spinner Sunil Philip Narine was barred from playing international cricket and then they [ICC] \u201csidelined me and Muhammad Hafeez\u201d.
\nThe former test cricketer claimed that there were issues regarding the Indian fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah and bowler Harbhajan Singh.
\n\u201cBut since both of them are Indian cricketers and then their cricket board has a lot of money and sponsors \u2014 and money is above everything \u2014 these players didn\u2019t have to face any controversies, said Ajmal.
\nPM Imran Khan says \u2018money is a big player now\u2019
\nEarlier in the day, when asked to speak his mind on the England and Wales Cricket Board\u2019s (ECB) decision to pull out of the Pakistan tour, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan said that he believes that \u201cthere is still this feeling in England that they do a great favour to play countries like Pakistan\u201d.
\n\u201cOne of the reasons is that, obviously, the money,\u2019 said PM Imran Khan.
\nThe prime minister said that the BCCI is the richest cricket board in the world, adding that no other country would dare to do to India what England had done to Pakistan.
\n\u201cMoney is a big player now,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the players, as well as for the cricket boards. The money lies in India, so basically, India controls world cricket now. I mean, they do, whatever they say goes. No one would dare do that to India because they know that the sums involved, India can sort of produce much more money,\u201d he added.
\n\u2018Money is now everything in world cricket\u2019
\nOn Thursday, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja said that the PCB must strengthen its financial status to increase its value before the ICC as well as other cricket boards.
\n\u201cThe truth is that money is now everything in world cricket. PCB has to strengthen its financial status in order to increase its value before the ICC,\u201d said Ramiz while speaking before the Senate Standing Committee on Interprovincial Coordination on different aspects and future goals set up for Pakistan cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad Former Pakistani spinner Saeed Ajmal on Monday said that Indian cricket has a lot of money as well as some very strong sponsors, which is why the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is financially stable. Speaking to a private TV channel, Ajmal also spoke about his popular spinning technique, doosra, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n