{"id":46481,"date":"2026-08-29T04:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/imran-khan-sarfaraz-ahmed-says-pakistan-players-did-not-know-about-boycott-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:22:28","slug":"imran-khan-sarfaraz-ahmed-says-pakistan-players-did-not-know-about-boycott-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/imran-khan-sarfaraz-ahmed-says-pakistan-players-did-not-know-about-boycott-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan: Sarfaraz Ahmed says Pakistan players did not know about boycott threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c17j0y17epdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi also serves as Pakistan&#8217;s interior minister. 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. Before it aired, Sky received a complaint about the plan to broadcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46483,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46481\/revisions\/46483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}