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I agree totally that Inzi or any regular captain should not interfere in decisions of stand-in captain. I am sure when Strauss was in charge this Summer that he was n't dictated by either Vaughan or Flintoff. Inzi should have kept out of it completely and left Younis to experiment with his own ideas and choose his own team for CT
again we can't say who's more at fault unless we have heard Younis's side of the story.
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We have a new "Imran Khan" :) i really like it.
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Oh jeez great, let us just ridicule Inzamam because that is the core of all problems. Unbelievable, what is Younis Khan to begin with. He just got his form back with batting, and captaincy is just a perception.
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Take Woolmers interview a few days back in which he stated that Inzi not playing was a blessing in disguise cause the team has got to learn playing w/o Inzi one day or the other. Add to that Inzi's insecure personality, Mushy (Asst Coach) playing his dirty game of creating divisions favoring Inzi and fears of Yunus being successful.....perfect recipe for rebellion....all very speculative but completly possible....
No. 4 and your last ending comment...seem to be the most sense of this....
but if it is no. 1 and meter pher gaya thing.... then no pity for Yunus ....
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Younis Khan is NOT going to be a captain like those in the past. If he is expected to lead the team, then of course he should have the most say in who is selected, or at least an equal say. Trust me, Pakistani management will come groveling back to him to become captain, everyone knows he is the most qualified.
He is a young player who has a burning desire to win and not taking the best players available must make him feel that Team Pakistan is not being given an equal shot to compete.
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In hindsight it seems an irrational and hotheaded decision by Younis but you will not follow any case with Younis when he acted in haste or irresponsibly. He must have some solid reason behind this (actually he should have) but the saddest part is that Pakistan has lost a good future captain. He had all the ingredients of a good solid captain. But if he is not allowed to run team his own way, then he must have felt useless and hand-cuffed. I respect whatever has Inzi done for our team but if younis' decision is affected by Inzi's interferences, then I am sorry to say Inzi is at fault.
For team's sake I really hope that team gels well despite this set back. I am quite positive Younis will be his bubbly and cheering self on the field. We will give a good show in the champions trophy. But I fear about long-term reprcussions when Inzi comes back in the team.
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It could be a governmental conspiracy....0000oooooo000000:D
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PCB is a bunch of dumbos for sure...
Agree - bunch of old jokers. Do they have any accountability to any one?
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what about Indian conspiracy or RAW hand in the latest developments?:D
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i agree to this 100%. he might have a solid reason but thats not what i expected from younis. i dont think we will ever find out the real reason, you will shortly see someone saying he refused to captaincy becuase of some personal reasons.
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Yeah agreed...that prick shery is commiting disastor after disastor...when will this ex-diplomat chor and angrez kay ghulaam nawabi chashm-o-charagh would be kicked on rear and shown the door...
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Buss iss cheez kee hee kamee the, now Pakistan is all set to win champions trophy and worldcup …watchout Aus here we come!
(source: www.jang.com.pk/jang)
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I think it may be the case that he was not consulted for team selection
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It is very much possible that something happened in this last week due to which Younis anticpated that there will be too much involvement of some people during his short assignment in Champions Trophy.
As long as he doesn't get the assurance from higher authorities he shouldn't accept the position of a dummy captain. He has experienced it before last year in Windies when he was the captain during the first test in Inzi's absense and it all resulted in an ugly incidence invloving him, inzi and afridi.
Totally agree with your last part of the comments. Don't know the exact scenario but my gut feelings also suggest that Inzi was interfering too much, which might have encouraged undeciplined players like Afridi to not respect the in charge (captain).
I will speculate two factors that might have resulted in his resignation:
I think he was probably asking for Yasir Hameed as a replacement for Inzi, and Inzi (who is not a big fan of Yasir) might have pushed for Faisal (which is a good choice for test), but in present senario when PAK is facing opener problem it should have been better to have Yasir with the squad. I can assure every one that Faisal will go with the team but may not play a single game unless Younis sit out.
Secondly, I think since Inzi is not a big fan of work out, and usually players like Afridi (who is a good fielder) could get away without doing hard work during net sessions or work out, but with Younis, who is very energetic and hard working player, I think he might have demanded greater level of motivation from other players, and undeciplined Afridi might have refused to take his orders, and Inzi might have sided with Afridi as he did in WI.
I am quite sure these two factors lead to Younis resignation, and since there are many officials in PCB who may not like to see a captain like Imran in future, so they rather let it get out of hands and allowed Younis to go for a press conference.
This is bad for Pakistan cricket as well as for Younis.
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Pakistan revert to familiar disarray](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/iccct2006/content/current/story/261517.html)
Osman Samiuddin
October 5, 2006
One day after Pakistan’s stirring triumph at Bangalore last year, Wisden Asia Cricket had the pleasure of meeting Younis Khan. His batting - a mammoth double hundred and a fifty to follow - provided the statistical heart of the victory but his incessantly bubbly nature had been its overbearing motif. Glowing throughout, he chatted amicably for nearly two hours about his life, his cricket.
**At one stage, he was asked to explain his particularly pointed celebration upon reaching his hundred: facing the dressing room, he had extravagantly dusted his hands in the manner one might when signifying that something had finished. His tone suddenly hardened: "They (someone in the board) told me I was khalaas (after his Kolkatta second innings duck). So my gesture was to those who thought I was finished. What did they have to say now?’ **
He also revealed that he had turned down an offer to become Waqar Younis’s deputy for the 2002-03 disaster series against Australia. According to him, he was unfairly shuffled in and out of the team because of it for two years after. **Then, last year as captain in a Test against the West Indies at Barbados, he was allegedly involved in a physical dressing-room scuffle with Shahid Afridi. **
**None are perhaps directly relevant to his spectacularly abrupt press conference this morning and you can make of them what you will. But they are worth remembering if only because they hint that beyond Younis the happy, Younis the genial, Younis the uncomplicated, Younis the cheerleader, Younis the obvious leader, exists Younis the unknown.
But creating such an unseemly public ruckus to wash his hands of the captaincy, by going to the press before his employer, so close to a major tournament and at a time when he seemed primed for leadership tops it all. Was there any need to compromise both his position and the board so petulantly? Would not a private discussion with the PCB or team management been a more sensible course? **
Not knowing why only worsens it. The speculation hasn’t stopped of course and for such a stupefying situation, some of it has been predictably bizarre. He was unhappy over the selection of Faisal Iqbal as replacement for Inzamam, he was unhappy at having been made to wait for a meeting with the chairman, he was unhappy at the dismissal of a worker at the National Cricket Academy. If true - and it sounds just too preposterous - they are indeed as one official said very petty reasons.
It has also been hinted that he was peeved at being made captain only for the Champions Trophy and that, at the instigation of some ex-cricketers, he protested at being made, in his own words, “a dummy captain”.** Others will tut-tut and hastily stereotype his decision as the impulsions of a proud Pathan slighted, the kind perhaps Afridi demonstrated in his decision to retire only to u-turn soon after earlier this year.** More muck will undoubtedly be flung. But will the truth ever out? It is the way of these things that inevitably it will but, for Younis’s sake if nothing else, you hope it is sooner rather than later.
**What is more certain is that he should consider himself very fortunate to still be in the side. It was the view of some officials during the meeting that he should have been sacked and many might be inclined to agree with them. His expression of regret, at the intervention allegedly of Inzamam and Mushtaq Ahmed, has saved his place in the side. But any aspirations to future captaincy, as one official said, should be forgotten now. However, within the unique parameters of Pakistan cricket, in the long-term, that is probably neither here nor there. **
Not so lucky are the PCB. For once in the country’s troubled recent history of leadership a succession plan was in place. Inzamam was doing the necessary and Younis was waiting in the wings. He had, in Imran Khan and Nasser Hussain, two admirers with impeccable leadership credentials. Such an impression had he made in the brief, staggered opportunities he had as captain that very few doubted he would be captain everntually, and a fine one at that.
There was even widespread debate after the ODI series loss to India earlier this year on whether Younis should already be captain. Inzamam’s four-match ban in a sense was ideal, for it allowed Younis to be tested as leader in a tournament significant enough to matter but not the one that is the be-all and end-all. For the foreseeable future, that plan is in ruins.
A cricket-mad acquaintance remarked before the Oval Test that Pakistan cricket, in the preceding two years, had been too quiet, too stable. Almost with sorrow he said that the only news had recently been on the field rather than off it. Sure, the odd Shoaib Akhtar shenanigan quenched the thirst for volatility but it wasn’t nearly enough as Inzamam and Bob Woolmer went about rebuilding cricket with unfamiliar calm and level-headedness. Some ball tampering hoopla and a shady captaincy muddle later, Pakistan cricket is back on familiar territory. Leaving all us cynics to ask now: has it ever been any other way?
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The latest is that Younis wanted Asim to replace Inzi and not Faisal...However, Inzi who is not even in the team, let alone the captain is still calling the shots and interferring with full support of the pathetic PCB executives...
When Younis met the officials to discuss the selection of Faisal without ever been consulted he was told in no uncertain terms that he is nobody and Faisal was brought in by Inzi...But Younis asked how could Inzi be selecting players when he is not even in the team and if anybody it should be him (younis) who should have been consulted before announcing the replacement...and from there if went downhill...The pathetic paki management even wanted to kick him out of the team, despite the fact that he is the most consistent performer of late and even in ODIs...
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I think Its bcoz of more than one factors involving in pak cricket and PCB that lead to this decision by Younis.
1) Inzimam is not the kinda persom who would like to stay back even if he is not the captain any more, i think he must have given some advice to younis or told younis to carry out things in cerian way in the tournament(batting order, inclusion of certian player etc). Younis probably didnt like it and decided to walk out.
2) it could be that younis is rethinking his own long term plan, he knows that at best inzi has got 2 season left in him in international cricket and after him (based on younis's performace both with bat and as captain/ Voice Captain in last 18 months)there is only one good option to lead Pak. which is YK. after seeing all this he has decided to let not inzi run the show from background and simply walk out from captaincy, so that whoever gets chosen as captain or VC can be a inzi's dummy. in this way he is not directly ignoring inzi's instructions, its some other guy who will do and go into a match with team combination or strategy that inzi is planning.
MYousaf didnt prove to be bad captain when he got the chances but Younis knows that he himself still is a better person to handle the captaincy. so whatever happenes in Champion trophy, if it is a good result for pak, younis still has got nothing to lose, but if it is bad it is a sign for other people to know which captain will be good for the team. it will still be younis who gets the captaincy after inzi leaves, so i think right now younis has made probably the best decision of his life considering the long term effect of him leaving the captaincy for right now.
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Here,s a trivia Question. When was the last time that Pakistan cricket went throughout a weak without creating a new controversy/scandal,(Mostly out of nothing)?
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He won't be kicked out until Musharaf goes.
Why can't they have elected chairmain for the PCB rather than appointing someone who is close to government in power. If they have similar type of people in the civil service especially the foreign ministry - what hope is there?
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according t Jang, MOYO and Razzaq went to see Inzi at his place. I doonoo if this happened b4 or after Younis announced stepping down.