Lawsuit Worth $5 Million Filed Against Afghanistan Cricket Board
Published - 09 Mar 2020, 05:51 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:04 AM
Amid their growing credentials as a world-class unit, their side or board lands itself in trouble more often than not. A company has filed a lawsuit claiming a mind-boggling amount of five million US dollars against the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) which bought to hold the rights of the Afghanistan Premier League (APL) in 2018.
In 2019, the apex body of Afghanistan cricket had to push the start date of APL after the league’s commercial partner couldn’t pay them the rights money.
The board later discarded the agreement and gave the reasons as to having concerns about people connected with Snixer Sports, who were the partners.
However, Snixer Sports fired back by saying that they were left with no choice but to stoop to take the ACB to court due to their illegal and unlawful conduct.
In the meantime, Snixer Sports have filed the lawsuit at an arbitration court in London.
The official, in addition to the above, also stated that there exists no market due APL’s season one and the partner has cleared 100 per cent market payments in 60 days of the starting date of the league despite facing massive losses.
“In our endeavour to safeguard the same, we were left with no other option but to resort to legal remedies against the biased and illegal conduct of ACB. Each franchisee spends close to 1.5 million USD per team and with 5 teams its 7.5 million. Around 2 million will be spent by promoters every season to sustain the league, which pushes the total league cost to around USD 10 million per season. There is no market due of APL season 1 and Snixer has cleared 100 per cent market payments in 60 days of the league commencement despite facing losses of over USD 3 million in the inaugural season.” an official of Sinxer Sports said as quoted by Hindustan Times.
Board reveals the reason in detail for the termination of the contract with Sinxer Sports:
The ACB justified the termination of the agreement since they thought that Sinxser Sports posed a threat to the integrity of their tournament.
ACB’s spokesperson Mohammad Ibrahim Momand also claimed that the ICC’s anti-corruption unit has knowledge of these risks and that the legal teams of both parties would deal with each other or court as necessary.
“Snixer Sports and people connected to them possessed a severe risk to the integrity of the league. The ICC Anti-Corruption Unit is aware of these risks and are investigating several cases. The ACB is happy that they claimed because we don’t have to pay them, in fact they (Snixers) owe ACB dues of the last (APL) season. They were a risk for APL integrity as well, first of all they have to clear our dues and then our legal team will deal with their legal team or with the court as required.” Momand stated.
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