Did he ever request not to be shown on TV while batting ? He even appeared on many channels giving interviews last year after he broke the world record. The whole team was asked to appear in a commercial and he simply requested to be excused and the company it self is not raising hell so whats the big deal.
As far as show-off goes the biggest one would be the Indian god Sachin. Comes across as a nice guy, always smiling. Who would have thought he woould be tamerping balls for the Indian bowlers. Ofcourse with the tendency to copy rabbits the country has the biggest population in the cricketing world so Sachin goes unpunished by declaring a test match "un-official" Did he ever come out and apologized about it saying ok I fu**ed up and made a mistake.
A bearded guy makes a small request and it's a big deal. Others can raise hell and not a big deal.
LM, you completely went off a tangent on this one....two unrelated examples.
Anyways, all that I am saying is that "personal reasons" or not, for a person whose pictures are always splashed on TV, Newspapers and Magazines...it is absurd (illogical and unreasonable) to ask not to be photographed for a commercial. If he had a non-religious reason for this, it would be understandable - otherwise I will say what I said - He is a friggin show-off. If he is targetting sainthood, I suggest he stop playing Cricket.
dont even bring discipline here. You can bring that if Yousuf insists on wearing SHilwar Qameez on field during a match. This is off field thing. He was NOT BOUND by any agreement and above all that other party (sponsor) HAS NO HARD FEELINGS for this.
Wrong. Moyo is signatory to the central contract that requires abiding by all Pcb commitments which includes sponsor requirements. Now the sponsor is not new niether is the requirement, if there is a change its with the player. Had this been someother player for other reasons then Pcb and rest of Pakistan wud have come down on him like a ton of bricks.
By the way, given Moyo and Inzi attitudes that day is not far when shalwar kameez maybe used on the field.
Company does not have many choices when it comes to issues relating to religious values in Pakistan. That is called religious fascism. No hard feelings.
Actually I think otherwise. People can live normal life and live happily. But if you think eating pig is haram dont tell me that pig-kabas is halal but curry is not. If you think taking picture is Haram then I respect your wish and you have right to follow it. But then you shouldnot be in business of entertainment. Stay home. Go to Mosque . Pray to your God and live happily. Islam allows exception in case of majboori but I dont think it is Majbori for him to play cricket. Majboori is when your kid is dying because of food and you need to bring food to table.
This kinda hpocracy gives other people good ammunication to say that it is a 7th century relegion which has not yet moved to 8th century.
This reminded me of story of a Village in Bengal where no one was ever photographed because “if you take photo of someone, Allh will ask you put life in it which you cant. Therefore you will be punished.” Irony was that Mullah was giving this interview on Camera for AajTak. Talk of hypocracy…
PS: He did for relegion reason as per this
“It is a personal decision of Yousuf and we can’t interfere in someone’s religious beliefs,” said Saleem Altaf, PCB director, cricket operations.
