{"id":753661,"date":"2026-08-29T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:00:28","slug":"imran-khan-sarfaraz-ahmed-says-pakistan-players-did-not-know-about-boycott-threat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753661\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan: Sarfaraz Ahmed says Pakistan players did not know about boycott threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi also serves as Pakistan&#8217;s interior minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the interview conducted by former England captain Michael Atherton, Suleiman and Kasim expressed concerns over the treatment and security given to their father, as well as criticising the UK government&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before it aired, Sky received a complaint about the plan to broadcast the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to the tension around the situation, the ECB took government advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Pakistan, the match is being aired by the public broadcaster PTV, using Sky&#8217;s pictures. PTV did not air the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ultimately, the tourists resumed play after lunch and the Test has continued to the end of the second day, with England 261 runs ahead at 81-3 in their second innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is understood Sky received no further complaints on Friday in relation to the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In October, England will tour Pakistan for a one-day tri-series against the home side and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be England&#8217;s fourth separate tour of Pakistan in the past four years following a 17-year gap between visits to the country because of security concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2006, a Test between England and Pakistan at The Oval was abandoned after the visitors were accused of ball tampering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan were adjudged to have forfeited the match after refusing to play after tea on the fourth day, the only instance in Test history when a team has forfeited a Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi also serves as Pakistan&#8217;s interior minister. In the interview conducted by former England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}