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The PCB has in progress taking damage-control steps to restore its relationship with former national one-day captain Shahid Afridi.
The PCB chairman, Ijaz Butt, in a clear move to send out a message that the Board had nothing personal against Afridi, made it a point to ask about the health of his (Afridi's) father, who is admit in a hospital in ICU after pain a heart attack.
"Ijaz Butt had a bunch of flowers and a get-well card sent to Shahid at the hospital, while a senior official of the Board also called up the former captain to make inquiries about the health of his ailing father," a source in the Board said.
The source also said that the moves were intended to snub the feeling that the PCB had any personal feeling of resentment against the allrounder.
"As far as his payment to Pakistan cricket is anxious, everyone in the Board appreciate and admire him for it," the source said.
Relations between Afridi and the Board have been tense since June and got worse recently when in an interview Butt passed serious comments about his captaincy and quote the tour report of manager Intikhab Alam from the West Indies.
Afridi swift back home from England, where he was doing extremely well for County-side Hampshire, to be with his father.
Afridi said that he was deeply dissatisfied by Butt's remarks and reserved the right to respond to them also through legal means.
The 31-year-old remains one of the most popular cricketers in Pakistan with a huge fan next and there have been renewed calls for his comeback since he announce retirement from all international cricket in late May.
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