Former Pakistan player Javed Miandad has asked for an independent high-level inquiry for the investigation of how a media rights partner of the Pakistan Cricket Board could get the live streaming rights of five PSL matches to the UK based betting company in the recently-concluded PSL.

“Pakistan is a cricket playing country which has already faced so many scandals and problems and also lost good players due to their involvement in betting and gambling, so the PSL matches being shown live on a betting company’s website is not a small matter,” Miandad said in an interview.

Miandad, who had played 124 Tests, raised a question on how PCB remained silent on this matter even if he knew that betting was legal in the UK and the live streaming was shown only in countries by the betting company where betting is legal as well.

“Gambling and betting is illegal in Pakistan and the PSL was held in Pakistan and it is hard for me to understand how the PCB was not aware all this time that one of their media rights partners had sublet the international live streaming rights to a UK based betting company?,” Javed Miandad asked.

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However, the PCB has said that an inquiry will take place for the matter and talking to its media rights partner. The governing body claimed that its media rights partner gave the live streaming rights to the betting company without informing the PCB. But Miandad urged for an independent inquiry committee for this matter who will look into it immediately.

“Any inquiry within the board will serve no purpose as obviously in any scenario some of their officials would be responsible for this mess,” the former captain said.

Javed Miandad also bashed at Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal who failed to report a spot-fixing approach at the start of the PSL to concerned authorities and eventually got suspended.

“Umar, what is wrong with you. Why do only you keep on getting involved in these scandals. It is unacceptable now,” Javed Miandad concluded.