Hearing of appeals of Pakistan former captain Shoaib Malik and all-rounder Rana Naved against one-year suspensions and fines has been adjourned. Pakistan Cricket Board lawyer Talib Rizvi said that Maliks appeal has been adjourned until May 29 while Naveds appeal will be heard on June 19. Maliks laywer presented his arguments in the last hearing on May 15, but Rizvi said the PCB needed time to discuss it.PCB chairman Ijaz Butt was out of the country and only returned home Friday so we will discuss all the legal matters with him before giving our reply in the next hearing, a website quoted Rizvi as saying. Naveds lawyer wanted to make some amendments in the appeal and needed some time, Rizvi said. The PCB suspended both players for one year and fined them two million rupees ($23,500) each for poor performance and ill discipline during the tour of Australia earlier this year. Six players filed appeals against suspensions and fines except for former captain Mohammad Yousuf, who has retired from international cricket.Arbitrator Irfan Qadir said he wanted to wrap up the proceedings as quickly as possible in all the six appeals and wanted it to be transparent. Video recordings of all our proceedings will be done so as to bring transparency, Qadir told reporters. The PCB imposed fines and suspensions on the recommendations of an inquiry committee formed to evaluate Pakistans performance during the winless tour of Australia. Players launched accusations at each other in a leaked video recording of the PCB inquirys proceedings. In the videos, former coaches Intikhab Alam and Aqib Javed questioned wicketkeeper Kamran Akmals poor performance in the Sydney test. Alam told the inquiry committee he was flabbergasted when Akmal missed an easy run out of Shane Watson and later said he had heard stories about match fixing.
