The interim chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Najam Sethi has said that some elements tried to get the membership of the board suspended with the ICC.
Sethi who returned home after attending the ICC annual meetings in London told reporters in Lahore that there had been efforts to get Pakistan's membership suspended.
"It is very unfortunate but also true that some people including former board officials had tried to convince the ICC to suspend our membership," Sethi said.
"I don't want to take names but the good thing is that when the officials of the ICC and member boards met us they supported us," Sethi added.
Sethi was appointed as interim chief by the government late last month after the Islamabad High Court suspended Zaka Ashraf from working as head of the PCB after a constitutional writ petition was filed against his election as chairman in May under the new constitution of the board that is approved by the ICC.
Sethi and the inter provincial coordination ministry have also been asked by the IHC to explain how he (Sethi) was appointed as interim chairman when the ministry had given three other names and his name didn't figure in that list.
The IHC is due to hold a hearing tomorrow to hear out the inter provincial coordination ministry and Sethi.
Sethi said that he did not want to get into a blame game, and will instead sit with the concerned people and discuss the matter.
The media has reported that some former board officials had contacted member boards of the ICC, including the chairman of the BCCI, and asked for their support to get the membership of the PCB suspended on grounds that the government had interfered in cricket affairs.
But apparently the ICC and member boards made it clear it didn't want to get involved as it was an internal matter of the PCB and was in court.
