Just after getting cleared to bowl again in international matches, Mohammad Hafeez has now landed himself in another problem buy questioning ICC’s process of reporting suspect bowling actions. The Pakistan Cricket Board is issuing a show cause notice for his remarks against the international governing body of cricket.

A PCB spokesperson has reportedly confirmed PCB's decision to take legal action. He said, “PCB is issuing show cause notice to Hafeez for his ill-conceived remarks against ICC in an interview to BBC.”

Last month, Hafeez underwent a re-assessment of his bowling action at the Loughborough University. The reports showed that his elbow-extension amount while bowling is within the 15-degree limitation.

“There are so many things influencing [who gets called for suspect actions], it has a lot to do with the power of [some] boards and nobody wants to take them on,” Hafeez told BBC Urdu following the test results.

“Mostly there are soft corners and relations between people which no one wants to spoil. What I say is why not implement the rule and get every bowler in the world to go through [the testing process]. What is the difficulty in that?” he added.

“When match umpires called me [for a suspect bowling action], I went for my test only to find the flex was recorded up to 16, 17 and 18 degrees,” Hafeez said. “I was surprised how can anyone with the naked eye see flex from 15 to 16 and at times they are not able to call those whose flex is 25 and even 30-plus.”

“So I have my doubts about this [system]. This is suspicious, why are match referees or on-field umpires not able to see those flexing up to 35 but me with 16 degrees?” he asked.

Hafeez was first suspended from bowling in December 2014 and following remedial work on his bowling action, he was re-assessed and permitted to resume bowling in April 2015. Two months later, he was once again suspended from bowling, for 12 months. He was then re-assessed and permitted to resume bowling in November 2016.