Life-time ban for Pakistan duo
Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf have been suspended indefinitely by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
The two former Pakistan captains were effectively banned for life following an investigation into the team’s poor results on the recent tour of Australia. Pakistan lost the Test series 3-0, all five one-day matches and the only Twenty20 fixture.
A PCB committee held intensive hearings with several of those involved in the tour and it’s emerged that a feud between Yousuf and Khan is responsible for the results. The committee has recommended that the former skippers should not be part of the national team in any format.
‘Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan keeping in view their infighting which resulted in bringing down the whole team, their attitude has a trickledown effect which is a bad influence for the whole team should not be part of national team in any format,’ said a PCB statement.
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Shoaib Malik have been banned for a year while other recommendations include a $35 500 fine and six months’ probation for all-rounder Shahid Afridi who bit a ball during a one-day match.
Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal were also fined and put on similar probation.
‘The recommendations of the committee will go a long way to arrest the continuing decline of Pakistan cricket and improve the state of cricket in Pakistan. It is a landmark exercise which is an outcome of labour and hard work of the members of the committee,’ said the PCB.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Drastic Dragons
March 10th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Do you think the Sharks are suffering a similar situation?
March 10th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Inflated egos…it’s just not cricket..!
March 10th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Geezzz
Drastic steps, surely only one party can be at fault…
March 10th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Unbelievable! Those two are their most experienced players.
March 10th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
why not cut their hands off and stone them while you’re at it?
March 10th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Afridi deserves more than he got.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
1) i’m glad PCB is taking serious measures to rectify the team’s in fighting issue. 2) i feel sorry for those guys getting banned for life. 3) afridi is a dishonourable player.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
The WP are stuck between a rock and a hard place, a slow lumbering giant or a little pygmy. None of these two freaks will make it into my team ever but the WP really have no other wingers anywhere. Hell if I were AC I would play Ricky J on the wing before playing these 2 anomalies … oh it is true.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
I dont believe this!!!
Mohammad Yousuf literally begged the selectors to call up Younis Khan. Why would he do so if he didn’t get along with Younis??
The board is using them as a scapegoat imho.
Pakistan cricket is nearly as rotten as SA soccer… nearly, but not quite!!
March 10th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
How ridiculous is this?
March 10th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
PATHETIC.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Self appointed committee by the Board President, biased decision based on wrong motives, wrong and contradictory statements by the board about the bans, no definitive proof what was the wrong doing by the players. No explanation of what the players actually did wrong. Moreover no public announcement of what the players actually did wrong.
Let me tell you legally the Board is bound to lose this case against the players and eventually they cannot save their own skin for which these bans have been issued. The Board was totally responsible for the loses, you cannot blame the foot soldiers for a defeat in strategy and bad decision to appoint the worst captain in the history of Pakistan-Mohammad Yosuf by the Board`s own bad decisions.