PCB medical chief says was compelled to resign after PSL bubble breach although he was not accountable

Pakistan Cricket Board’s medical chief, Dr Sohail Saleem has claimed that the PCB had compelled him to resign after a bio-bubble breach led to the postponement of the Pakistan Super League in March although he was not liable for the fiasco.
Saleem, who headed the PCB’s medical and sports activities sciences division, was the one official to resign within the wake of the bio-bubble breach which compelled the postponement of the PSL-6 in Karachi.
“I didn’t resign myself. The truth is soon after the postponement the PCB CEO Wasim Khan told me to resign. I knew that I had no choice because if I didn’t I would be sacked,” Saleem stated on ‘Geo News’ channel.
The PCB needed to postpone PSL-6 abruptly after a number of gamers, together with foreigners Fawad Ahmed, Tom Banton, Lewis Gregory and a few native gamers and officers had contracted the virus regardless of remaining in a bio-secure bubble.
Saleem stated whereas he had designed the blueprint for the PSL-6 bio-secure bubble, he was by no means liable for its monitoring and execution.“I only gave them the blueprint. It was the responsibility of the PCB to run it. If they were breaches it is their responsibility not mine,” stated Saleem.
He stated he felt damage on the method he was compelled to resign by the Board after serving for 22 years.
“I had raised objections to some of the franchises conducting commercial shoots at the hotel and also on some other matters but no one listened to me. Yet today, I am blamed for the breaches,” he stated.
He famous that the PCB was now prepared to pay an enormous sum of money to a international firm to design and run the bio-secure bubble for the remaining matches of the PSL-6 in June.
Saleem additionally claimed that regardless of his pleas, the PCB had refused to share the findings of the two-member inquiry committee fashioned to probe the bio-secure bubble breach.