BREAKING NEWS: Shaharyar Khan Resigns

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Just saw Bob on GEO and the guy looked sooooooo SAD almost like in tears and he said he felt like left alone. But still he has high hopes for PAK winning the champions trophy.

Very sad to see Boby like that one could really feel bad/sad with all this going with PCB. I wish there could be some peace. :frowning: Ya Allah :swt:

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Teaser bhai, I doubt that there will be any peace, if these guys (un seen situations, Uncle Sherry and Younis…etc) could have solve this behind doors, I wish!!!

All I see is more bickering post-CT, I am sure after all this Woolmer will be counting his days till WC’07 and when he can pack his bags and run-away!!! I am very :o I wasn’t so :mad: when Pakistan lost the WC03, talk about shattering the image of Pakistan !!!

Dawn paints the picture, if that is true then I would say, let younis play all the county cricket and forget playing for Pakistan cricket. unless he apologize!!!
http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/07/spt5.htm

*“Younis had gone to see Shaharyar Khan for this very reason on Thursday morning. To his misfortune, the peon sitting outside the chairman’s office didn’t recognize him and asked him to wait although the PCB chief was alone in his office,” the source said.

“Younis got extremely upset with the peon’s attitude and after waiting for a while, left the office in a fit of anger. When Shaharyar finally came to know about Younis’s visit, he immediately asked the peon to send him in but the player had left by then,” the source added.

“Younis, who took the small incident as an insult, broke down and announced at the press conference he was withdrawing from the captaincy,” the source stated.*

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Uff more drama:(

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This Dr.Nasim Ashraf has a colourful personality.I once saw him dancing on a song in a Live T.V, fund raising programme, couple of years ago.He has very close relations with mushie, and also has some top American Jew personalities among his friends.When there was rumours of Pakistan possibly establishing Diplomatic relations with Israel last year, he was said to be one of strongest supporter of that.

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well lets say how will he outshine from these dark and dirty crises, lets hope he can bring back the unity and old good colurful days where Inzi use to say "Boys played well... thanks to Allah, its teamwork."

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This would have been an excellent time to bring Imran Khan back :D Team ko nanga kar kay aisay chittar lagaata sab draamay khatam hojaatay.

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^^ lol :hehe:

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He is probably sad because Sherry won’t be there to back him up.

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:biggthumb

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:hehe: very true.

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And the reinstatment of Younis goes on to prove that this prick Sherry Baba was sacked as in fired by Mushie for his long list of debacles...nobody in our part of the world resigns...they either get fired or are forced to resign at gun point...Secondly, the "order/directive" from Mushie to purge all the "unnecessary" personnel from the board further goes onto prove the shameless nepotism that Sherry Baba had introduced and how the coffers of PCB were used for his personal and friend's pleasure....

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Yeah whatever...I could care less what Altaf the fat neck satan's chothays think...

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Is there anyone in this world whom you don't feel like insulting? You are the most bitter man I have ever seen in my life. I feel sorry for your family.

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Sunday, October 08

EDITORIAL: The tragedy of Pakistan cricket
(From The Daily Times)

Shahryar Mohammad Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has resigned, and many of his stupid detractors, who used to appear on TV channels and speak insultingly of his being a “non-cricketer” and administratively incompetent, will be overjoyed by what has happened. But his quitting three months ahead of time is symptomatic of the sporting and political malaise of Pakistani cricket.

Mr Khan was criticised for what the players did during the Oval Test in England and hauled over the coals for the statements he issued on the ground while the manager, Zaheer Abbas, was clueless about what to do. Meanwhile, no one found out what happened among the players. So charged was the nation with a sense of hurt pride that no one took note of the state of mind of our players. Did they understand what they were doing? Did captain Inzamam understand the implications of what he was doing? The PCB chairman was vindicated in his Oval statements when finally the ICC was unable to prove that Pakistan was guilty of ball-tampering. And after Inzamam was given his penalty, we thought that it was a blessing in disguise because Younis Khan would get a chance to show his prowess as a leader in the field. He had been good whenever he stood in for Inzamam. After the ban placed on Inzi, he was made the captain of the team for the forthcoming competition in India. But what does he do?

Younis refused to take the captaincy because he didn’t want to be “a dummy captain”? This is a devastating figure of speech coming from a national athlete who always looked good and spoke well in front of the camera. Muhammad Yousuf has instead been asked to take his place, and he is clearly the second-best choice. Why was Pakistan denied the services of a good captain? What did Younis Khan mean when he used the term “dummy captain”? One doesn’t have to delve into deep analysis to see what he meant. What he meant was not expected from him, not as a sportsman, not as a good human being. It meant, “I don’t want to be captain for just the matches Inzamam is going to miss because he has been penalised”. It also means, “If you want me to be captain of the team, get rid of Inzamam and make me captain for the World Cup coming in the next five months”. Clearly, Younis wants to lead the team in the 2007 World Cup and is scared that Inzamam will not retire, and after his comeback will resume his captaincy. One had thought that Younis Khan would prove himself to be so good that the Board would have no choice but to consider him for captaincy in the World Cup. He didn’t have to say what he said. After all, Inzamam’s captaincy was the best available so far.

One wonders about the personality of Younis Khan. Given his age, and given the fact that Inzamam was definitely going to retire after the World Cup, Pakistan’s captaincy was Younis’s for the taking. He appeared to be so good as a leader on the field that he was sure to remain captain till the next-after-next World Cup. Why should he have coveted Inzamam’s captaincy just now? Did he want the Board to say goodbye to Inzamam just to please him? How did he think the nation would take his remark about the “dummy captain”? Who advised him? If it was one of the myriad negative commentators in the press and the TV then he has chosen his counsel all wrong.

Chairman Shahryar Khan was very upset after the England tour. He was particularly depressed about “divisions” in the team. He told the media Friday that the Younis episode, which followed the Oval Test controversy in England, had contributed to his decision. In other words it is a gesture of total disenchantment. People who know Mr Khan will say he is a perennial optimist habituated to focusing on the bright side of things. He is also a good manager of men because he believes in their fundamental humanity and sense of dignity. What Younis Khan did was not dignified. His words were the words of an ill-advised and immature person who lives according to standards set by sport writers in the Urdu press and what our great cricket “experts” say on TV.

Coach Bob Woolmer, who knows the team more than anyone else and has been particularly close to the squad, has said that the team should avoid internal bickering. This means that what happened in the African World Cup is still happening. The team is divided into factions and most players want to hurt their opponents or make moves that would discomfit their opponents rather than benefit Pakistan. Teams have not behaved well as groups of human beings and erring players have not been penalised; on the other hand, each time the team has done abysmally, like losing to Bangladesh, the incumbents of the Cricket Board have been punished amid newspaper columnists baying for revenge.

Under the circumstances, it would be a miracle if the team does well in the series they are playing in India. Younis Khan has seen to that. A new chairman will try to deal with them as best he can, but it won’t be long before he too begins to be maligned in the media. The team is going to swallow all the media bilge and begin to look down upon him. The new chairman will try to bribe as many potential critics as he can with freebies, but in the end nothing will work. He won’t be able to please all the “experts” who want a piece of the cricket pie now that they have retired from it.

Is it in our genes or blood? No chairman is remembered with affection. No player has learned to value the way he is looked after by the Board. They can’t see that other people have always paid the price for their foibles. Everyone gets offended when dropped from the team simply because of lack of professional focus which happens with most of the lower middle class boys who make it to the top. Pakistan’s World cup has been ruined in advance.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\10\08\story_8-10-2006_pg3_1