Lahore, November 18:

The High Court in Lahore has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board to submit records of Shoaib Akhtar’s bad behavior as it considers the fast bowler’s appeal against his ban for breaching the code of conduct.

Akhtar has filed an appeal against an 18-month ban and a fine of $88,300 for criticising the PCB. “We have the DVD of the interview that Akhtar gave on an Indian TV channel recently in which he criticised the PCB,” Tafazzul Rizvi, the PCB’s legal adviser, said on Tuesday. “Akhtar had assured the court about his good behavior but he violated the code of conduct in his interview.”

The court wanted the transcript of Akhtar’s interview and Rizvi said that the PCB would submit the text in court within a week. “The day we will submit the text of the interview, the court will give us the next available date of the hearing,” Rizvi said.

Akhtar, 33, was fined and handed a five-year ban in April by a PCB tribunal for a disciplinary breach after he criticised the selectors. The ban was later reduced by another tribunal to 18 months, but a heavy fine was recommended. Despite the pending court case, the board included Akhtar in the four-nation Twenty20 tournament in Toronto last month.