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...
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by deciding to amputate the arm the tumor of which was infecting the pakistan cricket and their team... how better it would have been had they raised their hands and own some responsibility in failing to cure it...
the wound that could have been cured by timely intervention, medication and care... they waited for that wound (indiscipline) to develop into a tumor (player power) and in doing so they have send a clear message that they and their system is totally incapable of curing the 'player power' tumor and only way out, they know, is... amputate the arm... to save their skins...
hence they have decided to bar mohammad yousuf and younis khan from playing international games... handed over one year ban to shoaib malik and rana naved and chose to fine shahid afridi, kamran akmal and his younger brother umar akmal... apparantly on disciplinary grounds...
if for a moment we believe what pcb trying hard to feed on to us... even then their case looks very weak... coz if indiscipline was the factor... they should have banned...
kamran akmal... for a year... who openly flaunted team's stance by continuously giving contradictory interviews to oz media about him playing the next game and forcing himself on and above team cause...
umar akmal... for a year... who suddenly developed the back pain after he learned that his elder brother is going to be dropped from the team for the next game... and once he was told in no uncertain terms that he will have to accompany kamran to the flight back home... miraculously his back pain evaporated in thin air...
shahid afridi... for life time... for audaciously biting the ball... thereby disgracing reputation of a captain and the whole pakistan team... and compulsively engaging in team infighting in the past...
and should have fined yousuf, younis, malik and rana... but we all know that's not the case...
that is why they call pcb... the permanently confused board for nothing...
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actually they are wrong... but why little facts come in way of a good rant...
t20 will 'finish' pakistan cricket... yelled yousuf from the rooftop of mcg...
intikhab alam while agreeing with his captain went a step further after sydney loss... and demanded a separate team for t20 and tests... to save pakistan cricket...
and both echoed... in t20 cricket all you have to do is to hit the ball out of the park... but in test matches... it is all about staying on the wicket... it is hard work and needs a lot of character...
so presumably it won't be wrong if i say they are putting blame on batting aspect of paksitan test team... coz most certainly they cannot blame their bowlers for the pathetic display of rudderless batsmanship and its capitulation match after match... series after series...
out of top seven batsmen who played test matches in sri lanka... new zealand and now in australia... only umar gul and kamran akmal are the batsmen which feature in pakistan's t20 squad consistently...
and the irony is... it were the akmal brothers who kept pakistan stay competitive in tests beside bowlers... and if both akmals were not playing in their test teams the pakistan would have been slaughtered... castrated... inhaled without a trace of blood...
in fact its the seniors who are letting the team down... the ones who don't play t20 cricket...
talk about character...
though later kamran akmal dropped sitters but surely that cannot be attributed to t20 cricket coz he has always been like this and selecting him has always been like selecting a 'package' with its risks...
but the real questions yousuf should ask himself are...
was it coz of t20 cricket yousuf deployed 8 players on fence for siddle...?!
or was it coz of t20 cricket that he brought pakistan's best bowler of that game... danish kaneria... after about an hour's play as an after thought...?!
or was it in protest of t20 cricket pakistan plays... yousuf looked like a lamb about to be slaughtered while batting in fourth innings and played the lamest shot a captain can play just before tea at situation like that...?!
i have had read many excuses but surely this one takes the cake... goes to show that both mohammad yousuf and intikhab alam are living in a denial mode... and lest they are thrown out of the pakistan cricket system nothing will change coz they will corrupt many more minds with their stinking mindset and rotten approach... more than t20 cricket...
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