Posts Tagged ‘Malik’

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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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Mar10

It’s a cover up

by wasim on March 10th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely for behaviour they say contributed to Pakistan’s poor performance on its recent tour of Australia.

PCB on Wednesday also imposed one-year bans on Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved after implementing the recommendations of an inquiry committee formed to evaluate Pakistan’s dismal performance against Australia in December and January.

Malik and Naved were also fined two million rupees, wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal was handed a fine of three million rupees and Umar Akmal, younger brother of Kamran, was fined two million rupees.

Shahid Afridi was fined 3 million rupees (US$35,200) for ball tampering during the one-day series against Australia.

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For the time being an average fan will be satisfied that finally justice has been done and player’s power has been eradicated from Pakistan cricket.

In my opinion the whole inquiry process has been a huge cover up and in a few months all of these players will get restored and their fines will be overturned because of the following reasons.

 

  • The inquiry process was carried out by an in house committee rather than an independent Judicial inquiry like the Justice Qayyum inquiry. After Qayyum’s inquiry all the statements given by players, the whole proceedings of the inquiry alongwith the evidence presented were made public as a result nobody had any doubt about the fairness of the process and nobody had any sympathy with the players. Even though the recommendations of the current inquiry committee have been implemented but their are several loop holes deliberately left in the report because of which I strongly believe that all the players will be able to make a come back. The central contracts expired on Dec 31′st legally the players can go to the court and get the fines revoked because they were no longer employed by PCB when these fines were announced.  Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousaf  can get their bans over turned from any court as their stance has been vindicated by the inquiry committee’s report so why they are being punished? It is not clear as of yet.

 

  • Questions will be raised in the media why PCB didn’t nipped the evil in the bud when these players were showing rogue behavior on different tours and were under performing to pull the legs of each other, Since the details of the statements made by the accused have not been made public, does it mean that the top brass was also involved in promoting factionalism for their own vested interests and tried to cover up their own role by keeping the proceedings of the inquiry secret. 

 

  • Through out the last year several players of Pakistan team and at times the whole team has been accused of match fixing, even Mr Butt acknowledged that match fixing is prevailant but can’t be proved, since the inquiry committee was not independent and it’s proceedings have been kept secret and the fact that PCB didn’t do anything to curtail player’s power in the last two years, in fact on many occasions they encouraged it and protected the rogue players,  hence it is fair to believe that the top management was itself nurturing a corrupt culture, hence it is fair to believe that PCB deliberately covered up the evidence regarding the involvement of it’s executives in various mutiny’s and their role in mismanaging the serious situations on several occasions.

 

  • Younis Khan refused to be a part of a corrupt setup and is only getting punished for that sole reason. In his case only PCB officials were guilty, they never supported him because apparently it didn’t suited their vested interests and now by punishing him they have covered up their own role. It is quite evident from Younis Khan’s case that PCB’s top brass itself was accomplice with some of the rogue players and was encouraging them against Younis Khan.

 

  • Apparently Afridi has been punished for his ball tampering but I think legally they can’t punish him for one offence twice, I think behind the scenes their is more to it than what meets the eye he has been a central character in all the revolts and mutiny’s since Inzamam.

All the players except Younis Khan deserved this harsh treatment, the players are only puppets they could not have carried out their plans if they didn’t had any official sanction from PCB’s top brass.  Justice has been served to the players but the main culprits (the board officials) are still unpunished and are still controlling the affairs of PCB. The board officials won’t get away with it as very soon the players will hit back at the board and will try to take them down along with them.

The people of Pakistan should demand from PCB to release the full minutes of the proceeding of the inquiry committee alongwith the statements and evidences furnished by all the players and officials.

We deserve to know what was the role of the current management in prolonging this issue, people also deserve to know the real reasons behing the bans imposed on Younis and Yousaf.

I would appeal to the Chief Justice of Pakistan that he should take a suo motto notice of the situation and set up a special judicial commission for this purpose. 

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Feb14

Get rid of the freeloaders

by wasim on February 14th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

Pakistan’s team management before the start of the ODI series was aware of the fragility of their batting line up.  To open with an out of form Mohammad Hafeez and a struggling Imran Farhat  was already a gamble and was bound to put pressure on the middle order which is  quite old lacks the fire power and is more suited to the test format the demand to score at a higher pace in the shorter format seems to stretch the limits of the players in the middle order.

But batting wasn’t Pakistan’s only problem, Umar Gul looked completely flat, he lacks accuracy with the new ball and his ability to reverse the old ball at will now seems to be a myth and he lost the ability to bowl those deadly yorkers almost a year ago, he is a different bowler these days still effective though but  lacks the ammunition he once had. Hafeez bowled well and was quite economical but never looked like taking a wicket, if we had played Rahman instead of Malik he could have added more value to the team in real terms. Afridi and Riaz bowled good in patches. Afridi  as usual started with a bang but bowled a couple of extremely expensive overs at the end of his first spell, he looked an entirely different bowler in those two overs had no control over his length or direction and gifted quite a few gifts to the batsmen. Wahab Riaz also leaked runs on the other end, he can’t bring the ball back into the right handers which makes him predictable, his problem gets compounded when he can’t control his wrist and sprays the ball all over the place, Misbah at that stage of the game ran out of options.

In order to fix the team combination the team management will have to get rid of the paper tigers like Malik and Farhat.  Awais Zia has been great in the domestic tournaments and showed a lot of promise if he opens with Hafeez he can take the pressure to get a flying start off  from  Hafeez.  Hammad Azam should get a chance instead of Malik that can enable Umar Akmal to bat at #3.

Finn bowled an excellent spell and Cook batted exceptionally well, England has the bowling to defend scores like 250 . Misbah will have to be a bit more proactive and aggressive on the field to curtail the opposition for less than par scores.

 

 

 

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