The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Wednesday there is no danger of next week's first Test against Bangladesh being affected by a legal tussle between it and the Karachi cricket authority.
The Karachi City Cricket Association, one of the most influential cricket bodies in the country, filed a petition in the Sindh high court on Tuesday challenging the Board's decision to award organisational rights of the domestic international matches at Karachi to a provincial body.
The Karachi association had been responsible for organising all international matches in the city until last month when the PCB formed cricket bodies in all four provinces, giving them organisational rights of international matches.
"Whatever happens in the court, it would not affect the organisation of the first Test from August 20 in Karachi," PCB spokesman Samiul Hasan told Reuters.
"Even if the provincial body is not allowed by the court to organise the match, than the board will do it directly as it has the sole and exclusive rights to stage all international matches in Pakistan," Hasan said.
The court has set Friday (August 15) as the next date of hearing for the petition.
Sirajul Islam Bukhari, the KCCA secretary, said that there was no intention to disrupt the first Test.
"That is not our intention and we are basically fighting a battle for our rights," he said.
The Bangladesh team arrives on Sunday.
