Lahore Qalandars' owner Sameen Rana has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board for their recent treatment towards Haris Rauf. The cricket board took a bold decision by terminating Rauf's central contract last month.

Things turned bad for Rauf when he refused to join the Pakistan team for a three-match Test series against Australia in December-January and played for Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League.

Meanwhile, more than a month later, PCB decided to terminate his contract stating, "Refusal to be part of Pakistan's Test squad in the absence of any medical report or justifiable reason is a material violation of the central contract."

Rana said that the timing of PCB's decision to terminate Rauf's contract was not right and called it a huge psychological blow for the pacer just before the PSL.

"The timing of that announcement was wholly unnecessary," Rana told ESPNcricinfo. "There was no Pakistan series coming up, or any emergency situation that necessitated the announcement two days before the PSL. Whatever the logic was, the timing was really bad. It was a huge blow psychologically for him, because his whole life's main aim is playing for Pakistan."