Posts Tagged ‘Ejaz Butt’

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Jan09

Who is next?

by wasim on January 9th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

After the Australian tour major shake up in PCB and the team management is expected. It’s highly unlikely that Ejaz Butt, Mohammad Yousaf and Intikhab Alam will be able to retain their posts.

It’s been two years that the sports ministry backed by a lobby of some powerful senators and MP’s have been scrambling to get the cash rich PCB under Ministry of sports. The loss at Sydney and Rs 7 billion of irregular expenditures uncovered by the Auditors of Public accounts committee have provided enough fuel to their campaign, now it won’t be hard for them to get the constitution of PCB amended, under the new amendments the PCB chief will be nothing more than a rubber stamp he will have to get approval for every thing from the ministry of sports. 

The Political vultures if they succeeded in making this transition of PCB will make the institution bankrupt within a year and like Squash and Hockey the game of Cricket will also die in Pakistan.

The current PCB chairman was also not elected for the job, he was hand picked by the President of Pakistan on the recommendation of Ch Ahmed Mukhtar (Defence minister of Pakistan) who happens to be the brother in law of Ejaz Butt and also a business partner in Service Industries.

There is no question that Ejaz Butt is nothing more than a puppet, just like his predecessor Nasim Ashraf. The real power is in the hands of the Patron in chief after the Sydney loss Butt is almost certain to lose his job and after every debacle we will continue to change faces there is no dearth of cronies in Pakistan. The question is when the whole system which breeds the policies of nepotism, cronyism and corruption will get changed.

Nothing will change as long as the Mafia style governance of state institutions is not changed, hand picked executives are given goals to meet and they are only accountable to one man, after every crises a new face is appointed new promises are made but the same policies continue which produce same results.

People like Ejaz Butt are expendable the Patron in chief will find thousands like him, but it is hard to find players who can compete at international level and are willing to sell their conscience those who are available they are protected like a rare species and they form the core of the team, series after series and year after year the same players are rotated and recycled in the team to keep the circus running.

The captain might get disgraced and lose his job but he will retain his position in the team, The Vice Captain will make a return in the next series, the two senior batsmen will continue to play interchangeably as no deserving youngster will be given an extended run to adjust himself in their place at international level.

So who is next?

Who will be our next Captain who is willing to disgrace himself ? Who will be our next coach who is willing to be removed unceremoniously in future?

Who will be the next ring master who will keep the circus running for the DON?

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Feb17

God Father Part 1

by wasim on February 17th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

In a country which is being governed like a Mafia and where institutional heads are appointed like area Dons and given certain targets to achieve to fill the coffers of the ”God Father” it is foolish to expect any form of corporate accountability.

A surgical operation of the team and PCB’s management was promised after the embarrassing tour of Australia, it was expected that Ejaz Butt will be sacked along with his puppets, it was expected that  Kamran Akmal and Yousaf will face the axe for their rogue behavior and under performance, it was expected that Malik will be axed permanently from the team for under performance and for playing dirty politics in the team. It was expected that Afridi will be fined heavily for ball tampering. It was expected that Intikhab Alam will get fired for being a good for nothing fat bastard.

But so far only a farcical inquiry committee has been formed. The God father has given Ejaz Butt an extention uptil WC 2011 in appreciation for his services and for meeting all the targets and has also snubbed Butt’s rival gang led by Dasti and Miandad.

Malik has been given captaincy of the T20 team which means that he is the next in line to lead.

Kamran Akmal has been rested for one series because right now he is the most hated cricketer  in Pakistan.  Once Sarfraz will fail in Dubai Akmal’s stock will rise again and he will make a comeback with a super inflated ego.

Yousaf though unofficially was stripped of his captaincy but he is still adamant that he is not going to let it go easily, he has declared war on Malik and will probably resort to black mailing PCB “once again” if he is removed from Test and ODi captaincy.

Ejaz Butt has already told the public that Afridi can’t be punished any further.

And it is unfortunate that Greg Chappell has refused to coach Pakistan so we will have to stick with the fat bastard.

It has already been announced that the inquiry committee is just a fact finding committee and is not formed to punish any player. Given the farcical nature of this committee one can predict their final ruling quite easily.

Malik will be declared innocent and he will be forced to kiss and make up with Mohammad Yousaf, Akmal will be issued a warning to improve his glove work for the upteenth time, Afridi will be issued a warning that if he committed such an act again he will be removed from T20 and Odi captaincy. Yousaf will be told that ICL is no more so either it’s Tableeg or Cricket for him.

While this judgement is being announced in the media, somewhere at a secret venue Ejaz Butt will be having a meeting with the above players and their coach and will hand them over the new target to achieve given to him by the God Father for the upcoming T20 WC.

Stay tuned for the Sequel God Father Part 11

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Aug24

Afridi and Ejaz Butt again ignore Younis Khan

by wasim on August 24th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

Pakistan announced it’s Odi and T20 team after Afridi and Ejaz Butt had a meeting. 

The chief selector Mohsin Khan has been criticized a lot for not acting as an independent selector but not a word of criticism is being hurled at Afridi who finalized the whole team with Ejaz Butt in a one to one meeting. Has anybody ever thought that why Is Afridi behaving like a dummy captain? If he believes that certain players are being ignored for wrong reasons and he is not being given a team selected on merit then like all men of integrity and honor he should stand up against Ejaz Butt for truth and Justice.

By just issuing a loose and ambigous statement regarding ignoring Younis he tries to remain politically correct and gives the impression to the rest of the world that he sincerely tries but the matter is really beyond his control.

Is the matter really beyond his control? If it is then I am sorry to say Afridi even though he is supposedly a big and brave pathan is just another poodle of Ejaz Butt, who can only lick his master’s feet and can never stand up against him.

I don’t think in the current situation his role is any different than Mohsin Khan’s.

There is only one real man in PCB and that is Ejaz Butt the rest are just hermaphrodits nobody has the strength and courage to stand up against him.

It’s a dog eat dog world every one is for himself I really don’t think that Afridi has any sincerity with Younis Khan because if he had any then he should have done more than just issuing meaningless statements. These guys are not acting as poodles of Ejaz Butt because he is so powerful they are doing it for their own self interests.

The selected team is as follows:

Squad: Shahid Afridi (capt), Salman Butt, Shahzaib Hasan, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Yousuf, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Fawad Alam, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Wahab Riaz.

 

Reserves: Sarfraz Ahmed, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Irfan, Abdur Rehman.

First of all what in the world has Hafeez and Shahzaib done since the T20 WC to get recalled they couldn’t survive in flatter conditions how they are going to cope with conditions where the ball swings both in the air and off the seam.

Where are the advocates of merit now and why are they not raising their voice against the selection of Shahzaib who was a complete failure during the T20 WC.

Afridi has not only ignored Younis Khan but he has also ignored Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmad and Abdur Rehman.

The reserves are not travelling with the team, Asad, Sarfraz and Irfan are playing with Pakistan A and Abdur-Rehman is probably in Pakistan the probability of them getting any real chance is zero.

Why Asad was not selected in place of Hafeez or Shahzaib?

Rahman will become history because he is a direct threat to Afridi himself.

There was no need to keep so many fast bowlers, an additional spinner could have helped a lot especially when Rahman performed really well in the T20 WC.

The selectors have still not learned from their mistakes, they have again picked some players who do not have the technique to play in English conditions the team consists of too many flashy players who will fail miserably in English conditions especially when the new players have not been acclimatized with English conditions.

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