After backlash, Pakan Cricket Board includes Imran Khan in video, says omitted earlier due to ‘time constraints’ | Cricket News

Following a fierce backlash for leaving out Imran Khan from a video celebrating the country’s achievements on the cricket field, the Pakan Cricket Board (PCB) released an updated version of the footage with the 1992 World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan in it.
While re-releasing the updated video on Thursday, the PCB called it the “original version” and stated that the earlier video excluded “significant clips due to time constraints.”
“The PCB has launched a promotional campaign leading up to the CWC 2023. One of the videos was uploaded on 14th August 2023. Due to its length, the video was abridged and some important clips were missing. This has been rectified in the complete version of the video,” PCB wrote on its social media platform with the new video.

The PCB has launched a promotional campaign leading up to the CWC 2023. One of the videos was uploaded on 14th August 2023. Due to its length, the video was abridged and some important clips were missing. This has been rectified in the complete version of the video ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Rz2OBDyI9i
— Pakan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) August 16, 2023
The updated version has added four parts to the video including Khan’s contributions and lifting the coveted trophy as captain in 1992, Misbah-ul-Haq’s Test mace victory, the Women’s teams victory at the Asia Cup and Nida Dar’s achievement of 100 wickets.
Earlier Khan’s teammate and member of the 1992 World Cup winning campaign Wasim Akram, too, lashed out at the PCB for not including Imran Khan in the video.
Asking the PCB to delete the video and apologise, Akram wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), “After long flights and hours of transit before reaching Sri Lanka, I got the shock of my life when I watched PCB’s short clip on the hory of Pakan cricket minus the great Imran Khan… political differences apart but Imran Khan is an icon of world cricket and developed Pakan into a strong unit in his time and gave us a pathway… PCB should delete the video and apologise.”

The cricketer-turned-politician founded the Pakan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and served as the Prime Miner of Pakan from 2018 to 2022. He was removed from office after a successful vote of no-confidence in 2022 and was recently jailed for alleged corruption charges.