The chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt, on Tuesday, said that some of Shahid Afridi’s statements against team management, whom he recently dismissed as the limited over skipper, were the violation of ‘the code of conduct’. He was talking exclusively to a leading Pakistani news channel.

Afridi announced retirement yesterday

31-year-old former skipper was announced conditional retirement from international cricket on Monday as a blot of gripe against the way he was mortified by the PCB, saying:

“I can’t play under a board that doesn’t respect its players. Because of this, under protest, this is a conditional retirement.”

No one has forbidden Afridi from playing cricket

Butt said that Afridi had decided to retire from all international cricket, it was his personal decision, no one has forbidden Afridi from playing cricket and he was selected for Ireland tour but he rebuffed saying that his father is ill.

“It is his personal decision to retire. But we have not dropped him, neither did we tell him not to play,” Butt said.

The veteran all-rounder was swept by Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq as his successor last week without giving the rationalization of his relive at that time.

Butt assumed that the board has not obligated any ceiling on Afridi, and that the national team is ready to greet him back in international cricket.