ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistan Cricket Board has formed a three-member tribunal to hear fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar's appeal against a five-year ban.
Board spokesman Mansoor Sohail on Monday said a retired judge would head the tribunal, which also includes former Test cricketer Haseeb Ahsan and Salman Taseer, an ex-politician.
The tribunal could begin hearing the appeal as early as Tuesday, Sohail said.
Akhtar filed an appeal with the board last Friday, asking it to reverse its decision to ban him from all domestic and international matches for repeatedly breaching its code of conduct.
The PCB has also prepared a 200-million-rupee (C$3.2 million) defamation action against Akhtar after the paceman accused board chairman Nasim Ashraf of victimizing him and trying to extort money from him and other members of the national team.
Akhtar, 32, was once cricket's fastest bowler. But injuries, as well as a series of disciplinary incidents, have restricted him to 46 Tests. The ban, if upheld, could end his career.
Akhtar has said that if this appeal fails, he will also go through the courts in a bid to get the ban overturned.
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