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Karachi, July 10: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has summoned team manager Dr Zafar Altaf and vice-captain Moin Khan to brief the executive council on the team's performance in the World Cup.

The executive council meets at the cricket headquarters in Lahore on Sunday.

The briefing will also cover the reported indiscipline by the players.

But a spokesman of the cricket board said the calling of the manager and vice-captain was a routine affair.

Normally, after every series, the captain and the manager are asked to address the council. Since the skipper (Wasim Akram) is out of the country, Moin Khan has been asked to fill in for him, the spokesman added.

Besides Altaf and Moin, the cricket board has also asked its legal advisor Ali Sibtain Fazli to brief the council on the judicial commission probe.

The chairman of the PCB, Khalid Mahmood, on his arrival from England on Saturday afternoon, told reporters that the board had requested the judicial commission to investigate the charges not because it believed that the allegations were true but because the board wanted that the accusers should be punished.

He said the board had requested the judicial commission to summon those who have been accusing the team of deliberately throwing the final and substantiate the allegations.

The PCB chairman believed that because of the repeated allegations, the players and the team were coming under a lot of pressure. He said for the last four years, allegations were being levelled but none of the accusers were able to prove them.

Khalid Mahmood expressed his ignorance about the Prime Minister's anti-corruption bureau taking up the investigation into match throwing allegations.

He said that he had already questioned the tour management if the players were involved in indiscipline. But each time I was told that the players behaved very well, he said.

About the existing tension between India and Pakistan which has jeopardized the cricketing relations between the two countries, Mahmood said the executive council would be taken into confidence on Sunday and the public's feeling will be given due consideration.

On the cancellation of the Sahara Cup, Mahmood, nonetheless, felt that as far as Pakistan was concerned, the series was on. He said while finalizing the Toronto series, three parties were involved. Out of those three, Pakistan and WorldTel are unaware of the cancellation of the series.

On the question why he stayed back in England when the ICC meeting ended on June 25, Mahmood said since the PCB had been without a chief executive since May 24 informal meetings that followed later, he had to do the job of the chief executive as well.