PCB CEO Shafqat Naghmi rubbished reports that he had taken a unilateral decision to fix up a tri-series in South Africa.

Former cricketers and officials had questioned Naghmi's authority to hold negotiations with Cricket South Africa without taking the ICC in confidence, after the resignation of Nasim Ashraf as Board chairman but the PCB COO hit back by terming the accusations as baseless.

"These reports are completely untrue. The whole thing is in the knowledge of Chairman of the International Cricket Committee (of the PCB) Ali Raza," he claimed to PTI.

"And before we started negotiations, the former chairman Nasim Ashraf was also in office, he had not relinquished his post at that time. So absolutely no truth in this story." Naghmi said the fixtures of the South Africa tri-series should be given final shape in next few days but only after the International Cricket Committee of the Board reviews the tentative dates and programme and approves them.

"The meeting of the International Cricket Committee of the Board will be held either in Islamabad or Karachi," he said.

He also downplayed reports that ICC had kept March, 2009 as a cut off date for its executive board to decide whether the Champions Trophy would be held in Pakistan or not.

"There is a meeting on September 10 which will be preceded by a meeting of the ICC chief executive's committee and the Champions Trophy will also be discussed in that.

"But as far as the decision is concerned, that has already been made that it will be in Pakistan. It is too soon to have any other opinion or decision at this stage and nothing has changed," Naghmi insisted.