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And kudos to him for doing that...Sherry would not have stopped at anything, he would have bankrupted PCB...
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Erm, lets hope for best in future.
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we make circus clowns & juggling acts look amature with the juggling and clowning we do with our team…
PCB…get a grip…
cannot believe this sh**************ttttttt…
astaghfiralalah my roza…
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and which might not happen..so we might see an early retirement from mr. ul-haq or at least try to force pressure by announcing such things…
lets see.
Allah knows best…
bunch of jokers…
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what do u mean…?
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I hope whatever happened last last will inshallah be good for the team. Hopefully they focus on winning this tournament and forget whatever happened. Only time will tell if all this had an impact on the team, hopefully not.
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^ yeah but...is this the last....
or are we going to see another walk out during the trophy?
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I think we should now stick with Inzi-YK combination till WC. Then Inzi should retire (as his fitness will not be same as it was few years back) and its right time for him to retire. Then YK-Shoaib Malik will be good combo for next three years. Afridi, Akhtar and Razzaq must know by now that they are not captain material and keep focusing on what they do the best.
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^ lets hope the "khaleefas" that you named understand this now...
a strong & legitimate PCB management is what can cure the evils within our cricket..only...
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*I agree, except for the part about Malik. He still has to establish himself in the test side, and I don’t think he should be handed the captaincy until he can do that. *
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Yes I agree Inzi should hand over the captaincy to Younis Khan after WC but I think he's still good enough to carry on playing as a test batsman till 2008/9. His form and not his age should determine when he retires from test cricket. McGrath intends to carry on playing until 2009 Ashes (he'll be 39 then) and he's a bowler. Inzi deserves to be given the chance to become the first PAK batsman to score 10,000 test runs.
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Unfortunately that does not work with Pak team the only language they understand is the danda language. Do you really think thats how Khan sahib used to settle thing? I highly doubt it and I am sure he used the danda language which worked really well no wonder everyone praise him with all his arrogance, still he was way affective.
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Smooth seems like you said my heart feelings. I am 100% agree with you on all three accounts: Inzi-YK combination for ODI, YK-SM or YK-MY combination for test matches, and Afridi, Akhtar and Razzaq should focus on their game and forget about who is the leader.
Inzi should be allowed to play test cricket as long as he thinks he is fit enough to carry on, otherwise he should focus on ODI until WC.
Pakistan should find a more unbiased, organized manager. How come a manager introduce captain by calling a VC name.
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http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/08/spt7.htm
Pakistan cricket’s October revolution
By Sohaib Alvi
It was certainly the night of the long knives and much like the purge that we read about in history; a Caesar befallen and the dramatic irony being that among the back stabbers was one of his own. Not long after he had sat down for his last supper on Friday, he went down no doubt crying: ‘Et Tu Ashraf?’
It is not an episode in which Dan Brown will be interested for there is no code to unravel; the plot clearly playing itself out since the start of the year. And there was no resignation for sure as Shaharyar sahib was at pains to insist. You don’t announce a successor within minutes of accepting a resignation. He went the way he had sent Javed Miandad home two and half years ago. Life is a great leveller.
But certainly the cricket world is aghast, if only by the timing and the captaincy roulette. Yousuf said when accepting the captaincy on Friday that it is all arranged by The Lord. Well, the Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away, or at least relegates to vice captaincy.
To have happened on the doorstep of the ICC Champions Trophy is indicative of the malaise that had set in and which President Musharraf could no longer tolerate after a year of living dangerously by the PCB. When Shaharyar Khan bought his copy of In The Line Of Fire, he didn’t know the half of it.
So the cricket board renowned for the captaincy roulette has fired the shots again. It reminds me twenty years ago when the late Abdul Hafeez Kardar removed Mushtaq Mohammad over a pay dispute and appointed Intikhab Alam in his place and also for the tour of Australia and West Indies. The decision was soon reversed as the late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, then the Prime Minister, overruled Kardar and reinstated Mushtaq.
We had already entered the Guinness Book of World Records for most captains in a sport within 11 years, 17 including Wasim Akram and Saeed Anwar thrice and Rameez and Rashid Latif twice.
Now we must have entered it in the time category with four captains in 9 days and at the moment we still don’t know if Inzamam will return as captain. If Dr Ashraf can overturn Mushtaq’s and Yousuf’s appointments he can also overturn Inzamam’s appointment for the West Indies series. Personally I would have waited till after the Champion’s Trophy to reinstate Younis Khan. It has caused unnecessary distraction for the players, not to mention embarrassment for Yousuf and Razzaq.
So when did the ball start rolling? I believe it was on that fateful day at The Oval.
The President must have thought that a Chairman who termed a 50 minute sit out as being late ‘by a few minutes’ had seen better days. It was certainly time for him to go home and since he couldn’t be trusted with seeing the time himself had to be helped on his way.
In all the bloodletting of our own October Revolution in cricket following the big one itself that will be celebrated on October 12, everyone has forgotten a certain Younis Khan. He was the one who hammered the last nail in the woodwork that carried Shaharyar out of the Gaddafi Stadium.
So what happened? Well based on my observations of the past three years, ever since Rashid Latif was conspired against and removed because he was an upright, no nonsense captain who believed everyone had to give his best because everyone was well paid, Younis was a targeted man.
Younis grew up in cricket with Rashid, and his family-inherited value system was further cemented under Rashid. He played for Malir Gymkhana and Rashid immediately took him under his wing. Younis has since grown up as a man of solid integrity and believes that every team member should give the way he gives of himself. He used to walk six miles to play for Malir Gymkhana at a time when Karachi was raining bullets and when he entered cricket soon found Rashid back in the national team. When Rashid became captain, there were some members who felt he was the natural successor although Rashid always had Yousuf as his vice captain.
When Rashid left the side in acrimonious conditions some of the cricketers were vary of Younis as they felt he was from the old camp. Younis didn’t make it easy for himself by staying his own man and concentrating only on his cricket.
Eventually they dropped him from the Test side when India toured Pakistan in 2004. Even the foreign media had ganged up on him saying he wasn’t Test material because he hadn’t got a hundred in ODIs, conveniently overlooking the fact that he was normally sent in at 6 or 7, sometimes even lower.
One day while we were having coffee during his days in the wilderness we discussed his future and proud and self confident he said to me: “I will come back because I want to play cricket for Pakistan and I know I am good. I will see how long can they keep me out?”
Those words have stayed with me as has the determined look on him when he said those words. Sure enough, he fought his way back and was eventually slotted in at No.3 against Sri Lanka. He fetched a hundred and the captain had no choice but to take him to India.
There, he again he was in extreme anger when going out to bat for the second time in the first Test. Apparently he been castigated by an official on that tour for the way he had got out in the first innings for a duck. Younis cracked a hundred and gestured toward the pavilion to that official in particular. It did not go down well with him.
Younis went on to not just make tons of runs in the three Tests but also lead Pakistan with great ingenuity and insight when Inzi was unfit. Interviewing the official at the time by telephone for a PTV show I asked him about Younis’ captaincy during an ODI win hen Inzi hadn’t captained and Younis had led with brilliance. His reply was that Inzamam was still captain! You see Younis has never been accepted by the establishment because he is nobody’s man but his own and his country’s. Younis may not sport a beard but he was saying his prayers five times before some sufi cricketers of today even began reading the hadith.Many have doubted his patriotism when he resigned on Friday but very few realized the sacrifice he had given. He had put his own career on line because disciplinary action was imminent and he could even be axed from the team.
He knew the risks because he was not really enamored by Saleem Altaf who would have thrown the kitchen sink at him. But he realized that some players would not give their best because they would not like him to be a successful captain and have him on their head permanently.
I believe that was why he decided to step down when he saw the PCB top management least bothered to correct certain players’ attitudes. And to answer Shaharyar Khan’ question why he didn’t come to him first, well he is a Pathan and they repay blood with blood. They didn’t consult him with Inzamam’s replacement; he didn’t consult them on his decision. The rest, as they say, is history.
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^ nice article !
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Great article
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Mere speculations i would say.
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yar yeah kia topi drama bana hua hay in logooN nay.
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Senator Enver Baig criticises appointment of new PCB chief
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Senator Muhammad Enver Baig of the PPP has said that the country’s cricket had been messed up beyond redemption with the appointment of Naseem Ashraf as the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). "It is a clear case of favoritism that has nothing to do with merit” he said in a statement toady. He said that the new Chairman of the Board had already started making knee jerk decisions and further messing up the sport by reappointing Younus Khan as the team captain just three hours before the departure of the team on tour. While welcoming Shaharyar M. Khan’s move to step down after a controversy-riddled tenure topped off by the Oval fiasco, Senator Enver Baig said that the Pakistan cricket already at a low ebb was now doomed. “This is a whimsical appointment that has been made without any consultations”, he remarked. He said that Nasim Ashraf was largely responsible for the Oval episode that brought shame to the entire country.** Ridiculing the appointment he said that Ashraf would have been more suited to head a baseball organization, having spent his entire life in the United States instead of heading Pakistan’s Cricket Board. “We all know what negative role the new appointee played following the ball-tampering accusations but here we have the PCB Patron Gen Musharraf rewarding him with the prized post of chairman of the Board,” said the senator** who is a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Sports. “A most undeserving appointment has been made that will prove to be the last nail in Pakistan’s cricketing coffin,” Baig warned. "Having emerged clean after the Oval row this was time for introspection and making right choices and right decisions by appointing a former Test cricketer as Board Chairman”. He said that the root of the malaise in Cricket lay in the absence of the Constitution of the Cricket Board. He said that two years ago the outgoing Chairman of the Board had informed the Senate Committee that draft of the Constitution had been sent to the Patron but it had not yet been finalized. He demanded immediate finalization of the Constitution. Senator Enver Baig called upon Gen Musharraf to review his decision for the good of the game. He also called for weeding out several other controversial officials in the PCB like its Director Board Operation and come up with a quality choice in making such important appointments.
http://www.worldservicesint.com/newfp/News.aspx?ncat=sn&nid=3
Agree or disagree with Senator Baig…All I would say is that there’re far more deserving people in the country than Dr Ashraf who again has no cricketing background or credentials whatsoever… Asif Iqbal or Imran Khan would have been better choices IMO. This appointment does smell of nepotism.
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Legendary former captains Imran Khan and Javed Miandad have hit out at the way the current Pakistan team is run.
After Inzamam’s four-match ban, Younis Khan was named captain but refused the post, chairman Shaharyar Khan resigned and Younis was then reinstated.
“The country is run on ad hoc basis and so is cricket, and I think ad hocism has to finish,” Imran said.
Miandad added: “I can’t understand what happened. PCB encouraged indiscipline and players have little respect.”
Imran, who skippered Pakistan in 48 Tests and 139 one-day matches, insisted that the policy of allowing the country’s president to pick who will be head of the board had to change.
“It’s a tried and failed system because the cricket chief is not accountable to anyone no matter how many blunders he makes.”
Miandad, a veteran of 124 Tests and 233 one-day internationals, questioned the effectiveness of the management set-up.
There is a lack of fear of the Board and selectors
Javed Miandad
“For posterity we will have to purge the dirt and make the base and the board strong,” he said.
“Australians did not tolerate Shane Warne’s indiscipline even though he is so important to them.”
The outspoken Miandad, whose nephew Faisal Iqbal was chosen to replace Inzamam - a selection rumoured to have infuriated Younis - also targeted coach Bob Woolmer for criticism.
He highlighted Woolmer’s action in the The Oval Test in August, when Inzamam refused to bring his team back on to the field in protest at being deducted five runs. “Woolmer’s character was questionable in the Oval fiasco,” Miandad said. “The team was under pressure because of the events and he talked about resigning.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/4801903.stm