Karachi, July 30 - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sent reminders to its centrally-contracted players to refrain from giving media interviews without prior permission.

A senior PCB official told IANS Thursday that the move came after controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar was sent a show-cause notice after he gave a hard-hitting interview on a television channel.

In the interview, Shoaib said that he could have taken legal action against the country's cricket authorities for making public his medical report in which he was diagnosed as suffering from 'genital warts'.

The player also claimed that the Pakistan team management conspired to get him thrown out of the Pakistan team for World Twenty20 in England.