Overview
- Sources say Rizwan twice asked the Pakistan Cricket Board for permission to speak publicly about the investigation and was denied on both occasions.
- The Lahore High Court dismissed Rizwan’s petition challenging NCCIA notices and ordered him to cooperate with the agency while warning investigators not to harass him.
- Officials are conducting forensic analysis of mobile phones seized after the Lord’s Test, and Rizwan’s legal team says his phone was taken in a hotel lobby with a promise it would be returned within hours but has not been returned.
- No formal finding or criminal charge has been announced, Rizwan has sought guidance from the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit, and the PCB chair Mohsin Naqvi has not provided a public explanation.
- The probe follows a mid-series overhaul of Pakistan’s Test squad and could shape future PCB disciplinary or selection decisions depending on forensic and financial findings.