Butt vows to continue fighting for 2011 World Cup hosting rights

September 4th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain and left hand opener Aamir Sohail has criticized Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt for misleading board patron, President Asif Ali Zardari and the public on the 2011 World Cup hosting issue. Sohail, who resigned from the National Cricket Academy's (NCA) Director post recently, flayed Butt for calling general public 'naove'.

September 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail Thursday took another swipe at Ijaz Butt, saying the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman is misleading board's patron - Pakistan President Asif Zardari -- and is also hoodwinking the general masses regarding relocation of the 2011 World Cup matches out of the country. Aamir said he was amazed at PCB chairman's audacity to call people naive and suggesting that they are not aware of the ground realities.

August 31st, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Director General Zakir Hussain Syed has criticised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt for succumbing under the International Cricket Council's (ICC) pressure and ending the legal war against it regarding the 2011 World Cup hosting issue. Syed said Butt had befooled the nation by claiming that PCB has won the legal fight against the apex cricket authority.

August 28th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) hopes to receive up to 18 million dollars from the International Cricket Council (ICC) over the stripping of hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup, its chairman Ijaz Butt said on Friday. "At the moment the figure is around rupees one billion (12 million dollars) but I hope it could go up to rupees 1.5 billion (18 million dollars) by the time World Cup begins in 2011," Butt told reporters in Lahore.

August 14th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has agreed for an out-of-court settlement to end its legal battle against the International Cricket Council. The PCB, which had lodged a case against the ICC for stripping 2011 World Cup matches from Pakistan due to security reasons, said it has decided the end the issue outside the court of law.

July 31st, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has ruled out any possibility of organizing its share of 2011 World Cup matches at neutral venues. "There's no such clause in the agreement among the four co-hosts, so it's not possible," PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said.

July 27th, 2009 MUMBAI - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will meet ICC president David Morgan on Tuesday to discuss the possible solutions to a scenario in which the Pakistan cricket team is not allowed to play its 2011 World Cup home matches in India or if the Pakistan Government does not allow its team to play in India. According to sources, the visa issue for Pakistani fans wishing to travel to India to see the World Cup matches is also likely to come up for discussion.

July 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is unlikely to participate in the meeting with the three hosts of the 2011 World Cup India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, to discuss and sort out the hosting rights issues. The meeting, slated to be held in Mumbai on July 16, has been called to discuss the issues regarding the hosting rights of the 2011 World Cup after the ICC decided to shift the world cup games from Pakistan to other host countries citing security reasons.

July 1st, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistans Sports Minister Pir Aftab Shah Jilani blamed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for losing the 2011 World Cup hosting rights. After a meeting with Pakistan Sports Board in Islamabad, Jilani told reporters that those steering Pakistan cricket were responsible for failure to bring the World Cup 2011 matches back to the country.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : The Pakistan government has blamed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the International Cricket Council' s (ICC) decision to shift 2011 World Cup matches from the country. Pointing fingers towards the PCB chief Ijaz Butt, Sports Minister Pir Aftab Jilani said those who run the matters of PCB are responsible for losing the rights of hosting World Cup 2011 matches.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairperson Ijaz Butt is under attack from all spheres. After the sports minister Pir Aftab Jilani held the PCB's top brass responsible for losing the hosting rights of 2011 World Cup, former Test cricketer Sarfaraz Nawaz has now criticized Butt and his close aides for the persistent mismanagement in the board.

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - While the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made it clear that it would not revoke its decision of hosting any 2011 World Cup matches in Pakistan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is still hoping that it would force the apex cricketing agency to change its verdict. After the ICC's confirmation of not hosting any of the 14 matches awarded to Pakistan earlier, the PCB chairman, Ijaz Butt, said he was still hopeful that the council would allow Pakistan to host its share of matches at neutral venues.

June 18th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hoping that its mutual understanding with the Board of Cricket Control in India's former chief, Sharad Pawar, would help it resolve the 2011 World Cup hosting rights issues with the International Cricket Council (ICC). Sources privy to the PCB chief Ijaz Butt said that he is banking on the understandings reached with Pawar to resolve the hosting rights issues with the ICC, when all the top officials of major cricket playing nations meet in London on June 19.

June 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is readying two different security plans to table before the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the other three host countries, to salvage its 2011 World Cup hosting rights. The PCB has reportedly hired two foreign professional security experts to chalk out the plans.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are themselves to blame for losing the hosting rights for the 2011 cricket World Cup. "I thought they could have handled the entire thing in a better way.