Posts Tagged ‘Mohammad Yousaf’

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Feb14

Mullah black mailer of Pakistan cricket

by wasim on February 14th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

Despite the fact that Sind high court suspended the ban on Pakistan’s ICL players, PCB has made it clear that none of the Players would be selected in the Pakistan team until they sever relations with ICL.

Mohammad Yousuf said on Saturday he would not end his contract with ICL, insisting that if Pakistan needs him it must solve the matter with cricket’s governing body.

‘How can I break my contract with the ICL, which is for a period of three years,’ Yousuf told reporters. ‘If the PCB wants me to play for Pakistan they should resolve the matter with the ICC.’

Yousuf said he still hoped to play for his country.

‘I am a cricketer and playing cricket is my profession. I never wanted to be embroiled in court cases but the previous PCB set-up got me entangled in court cases, and now I am unable to represent my country.’

‘I am still world’s number two player in Test rankings and number nine in one-day rankings and have a lot to offer to my country. It is up to the PCB to realise how important I am for the team.’

Yousaf was awarded a hefty contract valuing Rs 12mil  by Nasim Ashraf in an attempt to dissuade him from play for ICL he was also promised a lucrative contract from IPL to further compensate his loss for not playing for ICL, Yousaf never received a bid he was paid his reserve price of US $ 300,000 by IPL.

Things eventually became sour for Yousaf as ICL took him to court and threatened to sue him, Yousaf again managed to re-negotiate a lucrative contract with ICL and ditched Pakistan team at the last minute and left to play for ICL without informing anybody.

He breached his contract with PCB.

He breached his contract with ICL.

And as soon as the last season with ICL was over he launched an attack on Shoaib Malik and tried to portray himself as the victim and Malik responsible for all the wrong doings.

Yousuf said he had not realised he would be banned from international cricket by signing with the ICL.

‘I never knew that I will be deprived of playing for my country, which has always been my top priority. All these regulations have come after I signed the contract,’

That’s a lie, he knew he was going to be banned according to PCB’s policy but he cleverly manipulated all parties concerned and made a lot of money from all parties by exploiting the situation to his advantage.

He has become the Mullah black mailer of Pakistan cricket.

I have been against the ICL bans and have always maintained that players should be allowed to play cricket anywhere when they are not playing for the country but Yousaf  ditched his country just before an international tour, now he is trying to black mail PCB again knowing the fragility of Pakistan’s batting line up.

The Pakistan cricket fans want to see him play for the country again but Yousaf has refused to sever his relations with ICL he wants PCB to lift the ban on ICL players unconditionally.

PCB management seems to be confused on the issue, on one hand they have openly stated their intent to lift the bans but on the other hand they lack the courage and will to stand up against ICC.

The situation might not get resolved unless ICC gives some sort of recognition to ICL there are rumours that in their next meeting ICC is going to offer a veterans tournament to ICL.

ICL cannot accept that offer as a lot of young Indian cricketers play for ICL without whom the tournament would not be possible.

ICL is also facing severe financial troubles which have made them unable to make payments to International players on a timely fashion. The  travel restrictions imposed by Pakistan government on Pakistani players have further compounded their problem. It seems that ICL will close its doors eventually leaving its player out in the woods.

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Dec04

It will be hard to lose from here

by wasim on December 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket New Zealand, Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

The love of Father in Law prevailed over justice, honor and integrity. To everybody’s utmost surprise Imran Farhat again made it to the playing eleven after single handedly causing the loss in the first match. I saw it coming Mohammad Yousaf didn’t had the balls to remove Farhat from the slips in the first match it was highly unlikely that he would drop him from the second test altogether.

Both openers batted with extreme caution and gave the team a solid start, but these days it doesn’t seem normal if Pakistan’s top three don’t collapse cheaply, Salman Butt was the first one to go trying to pull O’Brien but only getting the top edge, Imran Farhat soon followed attempting a lazy cut shot to Vettori, it was a nothing shot and he wasted all the hard work he did earlier, Vettori delivered another blow in the same over when he trapped Mohammad Yousaf in front of wickets on his deadly arm ball, within a span of 3 overs and six runs Pakistan lost three quick wickets.

When Butt got out everybody was expecting either Malik or Misbah to come out to bat at # 3 but that didn’t happen it was Umar Akmal who walked out to bat at # 3, Umar who was majestic in the first test looked very nervous and edgy he was fortunate to survive a few edges and was beaten outside the off stump on many occasions but luck favors the brave he scored a brave 46 until Tuffey found the gap between his bat and pad and rattled his stumps. The funny thing is that even though Yousaf, Misbah and Malik tried to avoid batting higher but they all had to come early because wickets kept tumbling.

This probably should be the last test ever played by Malik, he started of his innings with two aggressive strokes but played a horrible stroke a few balls later to throw away his wicket, he can’t make a sacrifice for the team, he can’t bat, he can’t bowl and he is not even that cute so why the fuck he is in the team it is anybody’s guess.

Misbah looked solid when he came to bat in, it looked he was all set for a big innings but then everybody has their personal demons, Misbah couldn’t resist a slog sweep of Vettori just before the close of play last night and threw away all the hard work he did earlier on. But the composure with which he batted earlier should give some hope to the fans and should clear off some uncertainty in the Pak dressing room.

Pakistan were reeling at 166/6 when the play was called off due to bad light, with Aamer and Akmal senior at the crease.

Daniel Vettori hoped to finish off Pakistan tail quickly but that didn’t happen Kamran Akmal first had a partnership of 37 with Aamer and then had a 64 run partnership with Umar Gul and the Kiwis started missing Bond sorely.

The tail wagged for Pakistan and almost added100 runs.

The pitch appears to be a bit quicker than the one at Dunedin a total of 264 was decent enough on this track.

Aamer for the third consecutive time struck for Pakistan in the first over, both openers got removed rather cheaply, Salman Butt dropped Flynn when he was at 0.

The real damage was inflicted by Umar Gul who removed the dangerous Ross Taylor,  Umar Gul made one swing into the right hander late and Taylor made the fatal decision to leave it.

New Zealand had no answer to the late swing and perfect line and length of Asif, Asif took another four wickets to take his series tally to 12 from three innings. Danish Kineria also made his presence felt by taking three quick wickets, Danish looked quite fit and in form an in form Danish was the only missing piece in Pakistan’s near perfect bowling attack.

New Zealand conceded a lead of 165 runs which might prove to be decisive on this wicket. Although Vettori claimed that his side is capable of scoring 400+ runs in the last innings but that seems highly optimistic.

The openers again gave Pakistan a fairly decent start at least by Pakistani standards, there is still a lot to be desired in the runs column but at least Butt and Farhat are seeing off the new ball. In test matches this is the most important job responsibility of an opener.

Pakistan lead by 229 runs Misbah and Yousaf are on the crease, Yousaf who decided to come at # 3 after facing a lot of criticism for sending Umar Akmal at # 3 in the first innings survived a few anxious moments the first session will be very important for Pakistan tommorrow if they manage to score 100 runs without losing many wickets Pakistan will win this match.

Lets not get too optimistic, if Pakistan team’s recent behaviour is of any indication then we might see another batting collapse tommorrow before lunch.

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Dec06

The confusion should end here

by wasim on December 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

The victory at Wellington came after 12 test matches. That seems like eternity. Why it took so long? Why we couldn’t win consistently? The last three years have been very frustrating and confusing for Pakistan cricket fans, many reasons have been given for inconsistency of the team i.e the quality of leadership, selection problems, lack of mental toughness, lack of proper technique, poor selection, gross mismanagement by PCB, match fixing and under performance .

Lack of leadership has been attributed as the biggest cause of Pakistan teams inconsistency.

So much has been said about this subject that nothing made any sense anymore. After every defeat or unfavorable result the captain, team management, and the PCB hierarchy came under scathing attack from different sections in the media, since 2007 two captains lost their job, several selection committees were formed and disbanded, the team management also under went through frequent changes the higher board officials had to appear before senate committee for sports to give reasons for the losses.

The batting line up especially the top order kept on changing on popular demand.

Now some of the criticism was valid and at times made sense but most of it was just based on superficial assumptions and had nothing to do with on field realities. Malik was accused of being a dummy captain, a meek leader with a lazy demeanor on the field he was also accused of not deserving a place in the team and not commanding the respect of the seniors, and above all he was supporting players from Sialkot region.

Malik lost the job despite having a good record as a captain, he lost the test series against India and South Africa because Pakistan never had the bowling to win against these two test heavy weights, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami were way past their prime, and most of the bench strength was lost to ICL.

Younis Khan was appointed captain as Malik’s replacement, he had all the superficial personality traits which critics desired in a Pak captain, energetic, talkative, experienced, senior enough to command respect, had a strong personality to stand up against the management and selectors and because of his stature as a senior batsman deserved an automatic selection in the team.

But unfortunately despite having all those traits Younis Khan’s record as a captain was far worse than Malik, he probably read too much into those critical analyses written by different pundits and tried to become somebody which he was not, YK  always had a demeanor of a happy go lucky person, but after taking over captaincy he tried to become a dictator always wanting more powers was very harsh with players as a result he lost the command of the team due to a player’s revolt.

 Things could still have worked under Younis if he had not forgotten the most important aspect of being a leader, that a leader has to lead by example, YK paid little attention to his personal form and fitness and as a result could not keep his place in the team, if he had maintained his form he could have won a couple of series which Pakistan lost due to poor batting.

When Mohammad Yousaf was appointed  captain of Pakistan team all hell broke lose everybody tried to take a dig at him, doubts were raised about his communication skills, like Malik he was also branded as a meek personality with a lazy demeanor.

We live in a modern world where religious tolerance is propagated but people who boost secularism couldn’t tolerate his beard and made fun of it all the time. But all those superficial assumptions about Yousaf’s personality had little effect on his leadership on the field, he led from the front and made his decisions like any good captain would have made, the only weak point was his fielding but he tried hard.

The bottom line is that a captain is only as good as his team, Mohammad Yousaf benefitted from the return of Asif, he led the team from the front and  after losing the first match by a narrow margin came back and leveled the series.

Pakistan usually wins  because of their bowling,  the return of Asif has made our bowling once again strong enough to win us matches, the slight boost in the bowling has been cancelled by a major dip in form of all the leading batsman as a result we Pakistan team will continue to struggle against top test teams like India, South Africa and Australia. A part of the problem stems from the fact that we have played only 12 tests in last three years the team especially the batsmen lack exposure and experience in this format the more cricket we will play the better we will get.

Pakistan teams performance under Younis and Yousaf has clearly established that a captain’s personality and those much desired superficial traits have little bearing on the on field results all a captain has to do is to lead from the front, take care of the business on field and perform as a player the rest is all psychological bullshit.

Nothing succeeds like success, I think we need to tell all those psychological bullshitters to fuck off and just focus on building a good combination. From my perspective the captaincy debate has finished.

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Jan06

Drop Kamran Akmal for good

by wasim on January 6th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

[caption id="attachment_1266" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="The face of an eternal loser"]The face of an eternal loser[/caption]
How many times more we have to see this fuckin face with the same fuckin expression on it. He dropped four catches in this match and missed one run out. Along with his Captain he orchestrated the most successful and spectecular rescue plan not for his own team but the opposition.
 
Each time the Australians were in deep trouble Kamran Akmal came to their rescue like a Guardian Angel.
 
The Aussies after conceding a lead of 206 runs in their first innings were in desperate need of a good start to their second innings, an early loss of Shane Watson would have meant an innings defeat, and Kamran Akmal realizing this problem gave Watson a new life when he willfully forgot to take the bails off in a run out attempt when Watson was not even in the frame. How bizzarre is that, wicket keepers all over the world just take the bails off as a matter of routine even when they know that the batsman has made his ground. But Kamran standng right on top of the stumps, and Watson was nowhere in the frame but still he didn’t took the bails off. For me that was an indication where the match was heading but I still believed that some of the players will be able to pull it off for pakistan as Australia was in a deep hole.
[caption id="attachment_1268" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Thank god he made it"]Thank god he made it[/caption]
 
 
Australia at one stage had a lead of just 51 runs and they had only two wickets left, all of their hopes were pinned on Hussey only he could have extended the Australian lead around 100, Kamran Akmal realized that and dropped every simple catch which Hussey offered him.
 
The match which should have finished on the third day extended into the fourth with Australia having a lead of 80 runs. 
 
Everybody expected that they will just be able to add another 10-20 runs and will get out first thing in the morning.
When a Pak journalist after the third days play asked Yousaf is he confident that his team will win, Yousaf said ” it’s too early to make any predictions”.
 
On the fourth day Yousaf took all the close in fielders away and posted them somewhere in the ground  where they were least effective. Neither they could catch nor they could stop any boundaries even the # 8 batsman Siddle batted like Dravid, the pair added 123 runs together for the ninth wicket.
 
The bizzarre field placement by Yousaf gave a clear message to Hussey that you are free to score runs we are not interested in getting you out, Hussey took the opportunity and batted beautifully and alongwith Siddle he bailed his team out of the jail.
 
Yousaf made sure that Siddle doesn’t face Sami until Australia gets completely out of the woods, and when he introduced Sami  into the attack Siddle edged him to Kamran Akmal but Kamran Akmal again generously refused to latch on it.
 
Finally Mohammad Asif got Siddle out and Australia set Pakistan a target of 176.
 
Pakistan got a flying start they were 50/2 when their captain threw away his wicket on a ball which even a school boy could have belted for four. Yousaf was well set and before that shot he had played some beautiful strokes all over the ground.
 
After the loss of Yousaf’s wicket Australia for the first time in the game had a realistic chance of winning the match. Misbah usually scores 10-20 runs but this time around his 10-20 runs would have really made the difference so he decided to get out on the second ball he faced.  In came Mr Fuck Face Akmal, I knew he won’t last long and he didn’t some people are quite predictable, he again made the same fuck faced expression but this time it was a bit different one could see the smile behind the despair.
 
As a result Pakistan failed to win a test in Australia after 15 years all because of Mr Fuck face Akmal’s generosity.
 
I can accept that those four dropped catches were a coincidence but I can never believe that his inability to remove the bails was a coincidence, this time it was so obvious that even the Australian commentators were also laughing about it and each time he caught a ball they remarked “ Oh he latched on to it because he knew it was not out.”.
 
It can’t get more embarrassing for Pakistan than this, I think we the fans deserve better than this, these players pretend to compete the fans do not watch and support their team to see this WWF version of cricket.
 
Australia didn’t beat Pakistan we defeated ourselves and some players helped the opposition in winning this match. Pakistan’s captain and vice captain were the chief culprits the whole world laughed at Yousaf’s field placement and the way he got out, Kamran Akmal’s wicket keeping and batting was a joke.
 
But the sad part is that the morons at PCB will do nothing about it, Kamran Akmal will continue to play, Yousaf will remain the captain and Misbah might get dropped for the next match and will return in the next series.
 
It’s not that we can’t accept a loss, if the players had played to their potential and the opposition had dominated us nobody would criticise them but this was a poor acting job not a competition. The first match was lost because of dropped catches by the same culprits and because of poor selection, we again lost a series because of poor management, and some bizzarre performances.
 
Misbah and Kamran Akmal should be punished and they shoud be dropped permanently from the team.
 
I am not going to support Yousaf as a captain anymore we don’t want another Inzamam as a captain.
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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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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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Mar30

Indefinite ban Vs Indefinite retirement

by wasim on March 30th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

Reacting to the indefinite ban imposed on him and on not getting a central contract, Mohammad Yousuf announced his retirement from International cricket.

Like the ban imposed on Yousuf, his retirement decision is also not definite.

When asked by a journalist that:

‘Why are you retiring?’

“After the Australia tour I got a letter from the PCB which said that me staying in the team is harmful to the team and Pakistan cricket,” he answered. “I don’t want to cause harm to Pakistan cricket. Everyone has their own thinking and the disciplinary committee has its own thinking and I haven’t understood the reasons for it, or senior players, or the public.”

‘Is this a final decision?’ asked another.

“Filhaal, this is what I can see, that my playing for Pakistan is damaging.”

He said that he is retiring from international cricket “for now”.

He will continue to play International leagues and domestic cricket to keep himself fit and apparently is trying to keep the doors open for PCB to beg and plead him to come back.

If Yousaf thought that the ban imposed on him was not fair he could have easily filed an appeal with the appellate tribunal which comprises of two High court judges and does not include any PCB officials. He would have gotten a fair hearing.

So why he didn’t go to the appellate tribunal like Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi?

PCB formed this inquiry committee to find the reasons about the teams poor performance in Australia and especially the loss in Sydney test match.

PCB hasn’t made the details of the inquiry committee’s report or it’s proceedings public and apparently is withholding a lot of information. In an organization where people in the past have gotten away with serious code of conduct violations like drug abuse, matchfixing, and carrying out revolts against the team administration it’s hard to believe that someone will get an indefinite ban for just having a clash with a team mate. The fact that Yousaf being one of the best batsman the country has ever produced doesn’t want to appeal and preferred to retire clearly indicates that PCB has a strong case against him, he knows that he will not be able to defend it and any information leaking out of the appellate tribunal might further tarnish his reputation.

It is interesting to note that PCB within 24 hours after imposing life bans on Younis and Yousuf said that the bans were indefinite and were not life bans and both players will remain available for selection.

So why Yousuf took such a drastic step as retirement?

He very cleverly chose the same route which he has successfully used twice in the past.

Already PCB is facing huge criticism in the media and the blogs for not treating him fairly, within a few months more pressure will build up, Yousuf is backed by a strong lobby of Ex Players i.e Inzamam, Moin Khan, Akram and many others. A few bad performances by the Pakistan’s batting line up and PCB will be forced to beg and plead him to make a comeback.

He will save himself from all the hassel and potential humiliation resulting from appellate tribunals hearings and will make a comeback with his reputation intact. Nobody would question him about his role in creating discord in the dressing room which lead to the downfall of Malik’s and Younis Khan’s captaincy and nobody would question him about Pakistan’s teams questionable performance under him.

But he might have made a serious calculation error, this is not 2007 and form wise he is not as indispensable as he was in 2007.

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