The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday said it was willing to consider lifting the ban on former captain Shoaib Malik. if he makes an appeal.

PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told Headlines Today that the board might consider lifting the one-year ban on Shoaib.

Shoaib - who is in a legal wrangle because of his alleged marriage to Hyderabad woman Ayesha Siddiqui - was banned for a year after the Pakistani team's tour of Australia earlier this year. This was part of a sweeping crackdown by the PCB on senior players.

Referring to the ban, former Pakistan cricketer Sarfaraz Nawaz had accused Shoaib of fixing matches.