Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt has been branded "out of order" by Hampshire all rounder Dominic Cork.

Butt today hit back at Chris Broad after the match referee criticised security arrangements ahead of Tuesday's terrorist attack in Lahore.

Cork was also in the city to commentate on the match and had travelled in the minibus that was targeted by terrorists, along with the Sri Lanka team bus, just days beforehand.

And he insists that despite Butt's claims to the contrary, security was not up to standard.

"I just can't believe he can come out and say such words about Chris Broad. Even if you weren't there, you could see exactly what they had been through," said Cork, who will make his Hampshire debut next month.

"They were left in the middle of a roundabout with an ambulance next to them with not even one policeman around.

"You saw a policeman, who was acting like he'd been shot and fatally wounded, jump up in the air - it was like a celebration.

"If Ijaz Butt believes that security was good enough for international sportsmen and officials, then he's wrong."

Cork added: "I was on the same minibus that was attacked two days before the Test match with Chris Broad - we had one security van in front of us.

"If we had been a target then we had just four normal policemen who were supposed to be looking after us. If there had been more than two terrorists we'd have been taken out.

"They were promised presidential security and Ijaz Butt is completely and utterly out of order."

Cork, who played 37 Tests for England, believes Butt's response to Broad's comments is nothing more than a clumsy attempt to stay in his position as chairman.

"There people are just trying to save their jobs and they're not thinking about the bigger picture," he alleged.

"The security wasn't good enough. Let's just get it right. That when people are promised presidential security, they're given it, and it's not just fudged."

Broad had claimed: "We were promised high-level security and in our hour of need that security vanished and they left us to be sitting ducks."

His allegations were this morning echoed by Simon Taufel and Steve Davis, the umpires in the Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka which was abandoned after the attack.

However, Butt retorted: "Match referee Chris Broad's statement is fabricated.

"There was no change in the level of security.

"I will lodge a complaint with the ICC against his (Broad's) statement."