I have read your post on the subject and I think we share the same views.

According to statement made by PCB Younis and Yousaf were fighting each other and dropping players for no reason from key matches to settle personal scores, also Younis is being punished for going AWOL.

Now if you want to go back in recent history then start from when Malik was removed his record even against the good teams is still better than Younis and Yousaf, these seniors started isuing statements after statements against him in the media that he is conspiring against them he himself is a mediocre player, Yousaf especially made him a scape goat twice when he left for ICL.

These guys refused captaincy when the team was going through difficult stage after WC and just after two years when things settled down and the rebuilding process was complete they systematically started a campaign against Malik.

Both Younis and Yousaf dropped Malik several times under their leadership even though he was performing better than both of them most of the times.

I don’t think that we can just blame one or two players. The most important aspect is jingoistioc criticism on certain players by Karachites, through out Malik’s tenure even though the results weren’t that bad he was being ridiculed by Karachites on blogs and in electronic media, players were being targeted based on their ethnicity and their replacements were being suggested only from Karachi, Asim Kamal, Khurram Manzoor, Khalid Latif, Anwar Ali, and Fawad Alam they became household names without even playing a single international match and without proving themselves at the international stage.

And Karachites want to see only one player as captain and that is Afridi, they supported a little bit to Younis just because they wanted to see Malik’s back but soon after Younis took over he also came under attack from certain circles, they ridiculed Yousaf even more and now if Razzaq or any body else other than Afridi is made the Captain that player will also meet the same fate.

I am not exonerating Malik from underperformance he did what he has been accused of but he didn’t started this fight. And we cannot exonerate Yousaf, Afridi and Younis either.

Yousaf was leading the ICL returnees group backed by Inzi, Afridi was leading a group of few players, Younis was a one man show backed by Rashid Latif, Malik was leading Akmal, Misbah and Butt and a few youngsters.

I have been suggesting through this blog time and again that we can’t play too many ex captains in one team, some of them will have to go.

Realistically, Younis Khan’s cricket has come to an end, he was the best man to lead Pakistan but his poor personal form and his tamperament problems and his inability to tackle players and management in difficult times led to his downfall. I don’t think he has any cricket left in him but he should have been allowed to retire with honor.

Yousaf should have never been given the captaincy only for one reason he was being backed by Inzamam’s mafia he lied to everybody when he left for ICL and lied again when he came back, he is a very greedy person. I knew corruption will again come back in Pakistan cricket if he is given power.
No doubt he is the best batsman in Pakistan but I seriously doubt his integrity.

Afridi should have been made captain after Younis so that the “Fitna” created by Karachites should have come to an end.

Malik should have been dropped after he was removed as a captain, we removed him on the pretext that he is not a good enough player to be in the team then why we retained him. Younis could have succeeded if Malik wasn’t there but his problem was that all the players which Karachites thought were great did nothing, Khalid Latif,Fawad Alam , Khurram they all failed mutiple times and each time Malik made a come back he scored to make Younis look bad.

I think the bans are fair, only if they want to retain Afridi and Akmal brothers they shouldn’t have imposed such heavy fines on them as it will effect their performance in WC.

It will be ludicrous to appoint Butt as Captain, I think it should be between Afridi and Razzaq.
Younis and Yousaf have played there innings they should honorably retire.
Malik’s ban is completely just and equitable and I don’t give a damn about Rana.

There are no further reasons. Why was Younis banned? What did he do wrong?

Why was Yousuf banned? What could warrant an indefinite ban - probably the end of him given his age? Has he ever been warned before? Has he ever faced any disciplinary action? The answers are no. So, what was so serious that he was banned? There is nothing serious, just poor discipline and behaviour.

Why was Malik banned? For causing infighting? It takes more than 1 player to cause and encourage infighting. Why wasn’t other players like Akmal given bans for the exact same offence? Has Malik ever faced any disciplinary action before?

Once again, look past the bans and think about what the rest of the world thinks about Pakistan cricket now. In my first posts on this website (Oct), when you were encouraging for Younis to be dropped, I warned of the implications of not supporting Younis. If these actions had to be taken, they should have been taken then and not now. The sooner you realise that there are no other reasons, and that the PCB has done this just to put the blame on the players, the better. Even Intikhab Alam has been promoted to director of the NCA.

the waited for wound to become tumor and than amputated the arm…

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Player: Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan

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DateLine: 10th March 2010
Media Release - 10 March 2010

After the dismal tour of Australia 2009-10, the Chairman PCB constituted a Committee to assess and evaluate the performance of players on the tour. The Committee consisted of Mr Wasim Bari (Chairman), Mr Wazir Ali Khoja, Mr Yawar Saeed, Mr. Zakir Khan and Mr. Taffazul Haider Rizvi as Members.

TERMS OF REFERENCE:

The Terms of Reference of the Committee were as follows:

1. Team discipline during the Tour

2. Team performance during the Tour

3. Ball tampering incident involving Shahid Khan Afridi and its possible consequences under the Central Contract.

4. Any other issues arising from the Australia Tour.

5. The Committee shall present its report by the end of February, 2010.

SESSIONS OF COMMITTEE:

The Committee held marathon sessions on 12th, 13th and 27th February 2010. Following persons were called in for personal appearance by the Committee:

1. Mr. Abdul Raqeeb, Manager Pakistan Cricket Team
2. Muhammad Talha Ejaz Talha, Cricket Analyst, Pakistan Cricket Board
3. Dr Faisal Hayat, Physio, Pakistan Cricket Team
4. Mr. Shahid Khan Afridi, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
5. Mr. Umar Akmal, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
6. Mr. Kamran Akmal, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
7. Mr. Mohammad Yousuf, Capitan Pakistan Cricket Team
8. Mr. Shoaib Malik, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
9. Mr. Intikhab Alam, Coach Pakistan Cricket Team
10. Mr. Salman Butt, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
11. Mr. Younis Khan, Member Pakistan Cricket Team
12. Mr. Aaqib Javed, Assistant Coach Pakistan Cricket Team
13. Mr. Rana Naveed ul Hasan, Member Pakistan Cricket Team

REPORTS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE:

Following Reports were made available to the Committee:

a. Coach Report - Pakistan tour UAE / New Zealand and Australia 2009-10 by Mr Intikhab Alam.
b. Manager Report - Pakistan tour UAE / New Zealand and Australia 2009-10 by Mr Abdul Raqeeb.
c. Report of Bowling Consultant Pakistan tour in Australia 2009-10 by Mr Waqar Younis.

The Committee conducted detailed interactive sessions with the persons appearing before it and confronted the officials and the players of Pakistan Cricket Team with the reports submitted to it and other material available on print, internet and electronic media. The transcripts and team management reports mentioned supra form an integral part of the Committee’s report.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

After careful and detailed analysis of the events, the personal accounts of the team management and players and examination of record, videos and statistics, the unanimous recommendations of the Committee were as follows:

1. 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.

2. For the shameful act of Shahid Khan Afridi, which has brought the game and country into disrepute, he be fined Rupees Three Million. A warning be issued to him by the Chairman PCB and he be put on probation for 06 months, during which his conduct be strictly monitored.

3. Kamran Akamal be fined Rupees Three Million. A warning be issued to him by the Chairman PCB and he be put on probation for 06 months, during which his conduct be strictly monitored.

4. Umar Akmal be fined Rupees Two Million. A warning be issued to him by the Chairman PCB and he be put on probation for 06 months, during which his conduct be strictly monitored.

5. Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Shoaib Malik be fined Rupees Two Million. They should not be part of national team in any format for a period of one year.

Recommendations of the Inquiry Committee have been accepted by PCB in totality.

The recommendations of the Committee will go a long way to arrest the continuing decline Pakistan cricket and improve the state of cricket in Pakistan. It is a landmark exercise which is an outcome of labor and hard work of the members of the Committee.

Why we always take Shoaib Akhtar back? why we took Asif back? Why we took the ICL rebels back?

Osman Sami should know that nothing predicts behavior like behavior.

Not even 24 hours have passed and Butt has already taken back the life bans on Younis and Yousaf now they are for indefinite period of time but they still will be available for selection.

As regards Sami only God knows what the selectors are upto.

Didn’t you noticed that even with those players in the team we lost 10 straight matches we didn’t won even a single Odi or test series, so what difference it would make if these players are in the team or not, we were not going to win the T20 WC this year anyways.

The reasons mentioned are too general in nature, the players took an oath on the holy book that they will go to Butt and complain about Younis, which they did later on. But the question is did they took an Oath to underperform or just took an Oath to file a complaint against Younis? Which players took that Oath? Why the manager didn’t sent those players home, I believe Yawar Saeed himself took the players to Butt and ironically he has been reinstated as the manager. Does it make any sense?

Afridi was already punished for Ball tampering but has been fined now for What? There is definitely something else.

Akmal and Yousaf threw away a test match, whose leg were they pulling they were incharge?
Akmal was definitely involved in that Oath so why he is not banned. Too many things have been covered up. But these guys deserved all this.

Quite simply, Pakistan is in danger of no longer being recognised as a serious cricketing nation.

Well to be honest…. cross out “in danger of”

I think it happened after the Sydney Test.

Good summary Wasim but really only time will tell. I am waiting for bans to be lifted or players taking action, but even then as Osman Samiuddin writes, no one can force the PCB to select them.

In the meanwhile…
Yousuf contemplates retirement