Imran faces hearing

Press, 6 July 1988, Page 45

Imran faces hearing

NZPA-Reuter London The Pakistan captain, Imran Khan, has been ordered to appear before the Test and County Cricket Board for Criticising the English Test umpire, David Constant, in a new book..

Imran’s county club, Sussex, has been banned from selling the book, “All Round View,” which was published on Monday, until after the hearing. Imran and Constant clashed during last year’s series in England and the Pakistanis tried unsuccessfully to have him removed from the Test panel after disputed decisions in the Second Test at Lord’s.

A T.C.C.B. spokesman said the hearing would be held next week.

“It is an investigation into

certain passages in the book and things that have appeared in the press about it,” he said. Imran said he was mystified by the T.C.C.B.’s decision.

“I can’t believe there is anything in the book which could upset them or Mr Constant,” Imran said.

In the book, Imran suggested the arguments over Constant generated bad feeling between the two teams at last winter’s return series in Pakistan, when the then England captain, Mike Gatting, had an angry and muchpublicised confrontation with the umpire, Shakoor Rana.

A book by Gatting is also the subject of an inquiry because of his references to the Rana episode.