Overview
- The PCB announced Tuesday that Fakhar Zaman was found guilty of a Level 3 offence for altering the ball and handed a two-match suspension.
- Umpires inspected the ball late in Lahore Qalandars’ loss to Karachi Kings, awarded five penalty runs, and replaced the ball, which cut the target to nine in the last over.
- Fakhar denied wrongdoing at a full hearing where match referee Roshan Mahanama reviewed footage and testimony before imposing the maximum sanction allowed.
- Fakhar filed an appeal Wednesday to the PSL Technical Committee, and unless it succeeds he will miss Lahore’s fixtures on April 3 against Multan Sultans and April 9 against Islamabad United.
- The case lands during a stricter enforcement push, with pacer Naseem Shah fined PKR 20 million for a social-media post and Lahore captain Shaheen Shah Afridi fined by his franchise over a hotel security breach in a PSL season being played behind closed doors due to fuel constraints.