Anwar, on Tuesday, had said that his team was robbed of the match when a fresh white cherry was handed over to his bowlers in the 42nd over. ``But what Anwar has not realised is it was a bad captaincy by him as he didn't bowl Waqar Younis his full quota of 10 overs. Secondly, there was no complaint by him when Younis was able to extract swing from that ball in the penultimate over in which he conceded two runs and took the wicket of Saba Karim,'' a spokesman of the PCB, requesting not to be quoted, said.

The spokesman stated that the ball was now in the court of disciplinary committee chairman as Saeed Anwar had publicly criticised the cricket setup.

However, when asked why the authorities couldn't provide used balls which forced the umpires to take off the shine of it but failing to soften it up, the spokesman was unconvincing, saying only four balls were available from the Hyderabad match because before that no matches had been played here with the white balls. He parried the question when asked the World Cup was played with white balls and there should have been reserve balls as Pakistan had hosted 17 matches, including the final.

It has been officially learnt that Sri Lankan Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle had also contacted PCB Secretary Waqar Ahmad on Tuesday morning to point out that there were no reserve balls available. Waqar Ahmad had told Madugalle that the board had no stock of used white balls, sources said.