Apology to PCB could save former SA coach Mickey Arthur

Pakistani cricket authorities sent a legal notice yesterday to former South African coach Mickey Arthur after he accused the Pakistani team of fixing a match played against his team three years ago

Pakistani cricket authorities sent a legal notice yesterday to former South African coach Mickey Arthur after he accused the Pakistani team of fixing a match played against his team three years ago.

"The recently published statement in media attributed to you, in which you have levelled serious allegations after a lapse of three years, aiming to sell your autobiography, is extremely startling," said the legal notice seen by AFP.

"You have not brought any evidence to support your allegations and the PCB finds all these allegations frivolous, whimsical, damaging and disparaging to Pakistan cricket."

The notice demands Arthur respond within seven days, "unconditionally and publicly retract" the statement and offer an "unqualified and unconditional apology".

It also demands a written undertaking that no such statements will be made publicly again and "that your biography will not contain such or similar libels and disparaging statements against the Pakistan team or any of its members."

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