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Mob demands jail for
Pakistan team
By Peter Popham in Delhi
FOUR days after a humiliating defeat in cricket’s World Cup final, Pakistan’s
brilliant but erratic national cricket team
slunk back home yesterday. They were greeted at Karachi airport by angry
crowds shouting “cheats and bastards”
and demanding that the whole team be
arrested and put on trial.
Wasim Akram’s extraordinary team,
which includes perhaps the fastest bowler
(Shoaib Akhtar) and the slowest runner
between the wickets (Inzamam-ul-Haq) in
cricket history, went down in flames on
Sunday when Australia bowled them out
for 132. Australia then cruised to the
easiest of eight-wicket victoriess.
No nation would be happy with such an
outcome. But in a country such as
Pakistan, rich chiefly in troubles,
cricketing success is the great national
consolation. Failure, on the other hand, is
the stuff of mass despair. And Pakistan’s
defeats are always made worse by the
suspicion that they are rigged.
A long-running inquiry in Pakistan into
match-fixing published an interim report
last September in which Wasim, and his
team-mates Ijaz Ahmed and Salim Malik,
were accused of taking money to play
poorly. Salim, whose oddly diffident
performances had drawn suspicion
before, was dropped from the team for a
second time. Wasim somehow brazened it out.
But suspicion again descended during
the World Cup when on 31 May Pakistan
were trounced by Bangladesh, the
tournament’s tiddlers. During the game,
Wasim seemed to be enjoying the
humiliation.
Afterwards he said: “I am glad that we
have lost to our brothers. The better team
on the day won the match.” One Indian
newspaper put it: “Wasim Akram hands it
on a platter to ‘our brothers’.” Newspaper
reports that thousands of Pakistanis
smashed their televisions in fury were
much exaggerated. But every tea-shop
with a television resounded with bitter curses.
On Tuesday, donkeys were paraded
through Lahore carrying effigies of
Wasim and his vice-captain, Moin Khan.
Yesterday a rumour swept the country
that a team of top intelligence officials
had been assigned to investigate the
team’s performance.
“They are as shrewd in making money as
in playing,” one fan said yesterday. “But
this time they have gone too far.”
source: Idenpendant news paper
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