‘Received death threats if Australia came to Pakistan’: Rameez Raja reveals | Cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board saw a major change in power, as former captain Rameez Raja was replaced by Najam Sethi as the chairman. Furthermore, the selection committee under Rameez’s tenure was also sacked, with Shahid Afridi taking up the role as interim chief selector; Besides this, former cricketers Abdul Razzaq and Rao Iftikhar Anjum were also added to the panel. However, since his sacking, Rameez Raja has given several public interviews where he has spoken about the “unfair” decision to sack him.

during one such interview sama tv, Rameez Raja staked a big claim on his tenure as the Speaker; The former Pakistan star revealed that he had faced death threats and since then had been using a bullet-proof car to travel in the country. Rameez made this disclosure when he was asked about the Rs 1.65 crore (Pakistani Rupee) car he bought during his stay in the PCB.

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“That car is with the PCB. I didn’t buy that. My successor can also use it. I received death threats. You can’t get a bullet proof car unless you are in danger of being killed. So I had,” Rameez told the journalist.

He said, ‘I cannot give details about it (about the threat). But it is there since Australia came to Pakistan in March 2022. The DIG sahib had come to my house, a complete report was made there. That’s why I bought it,” said the former PCB chairman.

Earlier, the Pakistan Cricket Board had threatened to take legal action against Rameez Raja after a war of words broke out between the new management committee of the board and the former chairman.

Last Thursday, Raja was removed as PCB chairman by the country’s government, which appointed a 14-member committee headed by Najam Sethi to run the affairs of the game for the next four months.

Following his dismissal, Raja alleged that he was not even allowed to collect his belongings from the board office after the government suspended the constitution.