PSL: Multan Sultans owner Ali Tareen tears up legal notice from PCB after termination threat - Watch

New Delhi: Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Multan Sultan's owner Ali Tareen tore up a legal notice sent to him by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). This came after the notice mentioned a threat to blacklist him and terminate the contract of his team in a recorded video.

The differences between PSL franchise owner and the PCB has now blown up publicly after it was revealed on Thursday that the PCB had sent a notice to him in which they had asked him to publicly retract and apologise for his critical comments about the way the PSL has been run by the Pakistan board or the contract of his franchise will stand cancelled.

Tareen, who belongs to a powerful, wealthy and political family in Pakistan, had several times questioned the success of the PSL as claimed by the PCB and the way it has been managing the league on social media platforms and podcasts. This prompted the Pakistan Cricket Board to send him a notice.

In one of the podcasts, he claimed that the PSL had become the fifth or sixth ranked league because of incompetent people running the management of the league. This was an indirect hit at the PCB members who are responsible for running the PSL. Tareen, who was expected to remain quiet after the notice sent last month, came out open in the public and mocked the PCB officials in a video which has been trending on social media.

In the video, Tareen plays out the apology part in a sarcastic way all the time lashing out at the PCB and PSL officials and in the end he tears up the notice and says this is my apology.

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The action states that the PCB will face a legal battle from Tareen who does not seem to back down. There is a conjecture that Tareen had started criticising the PSL because he knew it had completed 10-years and wanted to devalue its valuation for the next 10 years.