pcb: permanantly confused board...

not so while back... pcb banned younis khan and mohammad yousuf for life... and this is what they noted in justification for their decision...

"Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan, keeping in view their infighting which resulted in bringing down the whole team, their attitude has a trickledown effect which is a bad influence for the whole team should not be part of national team in any format," the board said in its statement issued on Wednesday.

younis went on to challenge the ban to the tribunal set by pcb itself along with shoaib malik while yousuf in his signature style announced retirement from all forms of cricket... for now... that is...

while i can still digest what pcb is saying now that tribunal was a 'constitutional process'... that what is the purpose of having an independent arbitrator if his job is to merely put a stamp on the earlier judgment...

but i am baffled by this news... door open for yousuf...

"Yousuf has not appealed, he has retired," Ijaz Butt, the board chairman told Cricinfo. "We have sent messages to him through others that if he takes back his retirement he can play for Pakistan again. But he declined that."

that after pcb clearly stating earlier that ban on yousuf is final and will not be revived as he has not appealed the ban...

"The last date to appeal against the penalties was April 16 and since Yousuf did not challenge the punishment, the ban has attained finality," PCB's legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi told AFP.

so from being a person who has the habit of infighting that has 'trickledown' effect and is 'bad influence' on the team and more importantly youngsters... what has yousuf done, in this period, to earn this u-turn to the extent that now pcb is sending him 'messages' to play for pakistan...?

i guess ijaz-butt-of-all-jokes has sold pcb's off-field activities rights to media for the 'exclusive coverage' for a very good amount... and this is the only way they can keep this mockery show going...