IK should know that umpiring mistakes are part and parcel of the game. Many vocifirous apeals for LBW that looked to be hitting the stumps were denied by umpires because of technical issues like pitching outside leg or impact outside the line etc. The only obvious mistake was Umar's LBW. If he was accusing the umpires of incompetence that was one thing, even accusation of bias could be swaloowed but accusing the umpires of corruption is simply not acceptable. Does he have any proof of any sort?
As far playing Asif instead of Gul, hindsight is great for making these observations. At the time playing Gul and Rana was the logical thing to do. Gul had played throughout the tournament, was the quickest of the lot and a death overs specialist. He had a mixed tournament with some good bowling in between a lot of dross. Asif looked pretty ordinary and slow on his come back until that one over. He is known to go for a few runs in death overs as he is more line, length and movement bowler. Gul had the best ability to bowl fast yorkers in death overs among the fast bowlers.
Younis (or any other player) should not have played when not fully fit, that I can agree with, especially given his batting form.
Agree with you re. his other comment about umpires and indian lobby. That is a very stupid thing to say without any substantial proof or evidence.
And I am not blaming anyone here but the batters. They batted poorly and did not deserve to win after making just 233. That was a very ordinary effort on that wicket and they just crumbled under pressure. NZ were the better team on the day