Younis Khan steps down from Captaincy

by Mansoor Ehsan on October 13, 2009

The successful T20 world cup winning captain Younis Khan resigned from ODI captaincy today. The resign came as a protest at match-fixing allegations made against the team by a senior member of parliament. After Pakistan ended its campaign in the semi finals at Chamions Trophy 2009, Jamshed Dasti was quick to remark it as deliberate defeats from Australia and NZL.

“They lost to Australia just to keep India out of the tournament…We will be meeting with them on October 13 as we feel the team deliberately lost the games against Australia and New Zealand,” Dasti told Associated Press.

Today, Eijaz Butt, Younis Khan and Intekhab Alam appeared before sports committee and in a result Younis resigned. Details of the sports committee session are still to hit media. Younis gave a fairly straight answer on his resignation:

Photo Courtesy News Sites; original photo by Anjum Naveed, AP

‘I could not stand cricitism from all and sundry as it was affecting my performance that is why I resigned,’ said Khan.

Everybody can sense there is more than just criticism… But I believe it is totally wrong and disgraceful for Pakistan cricket. Look at Jamshed Dasti, probably he needs some eye test or brain to judge cricketers performance. How can a last ball win match be fixed?? Are our players robots who could make such a perfect hard battled match that is lost at the last ball…haah! give us break Dasti sb; you definitely need to understand cricket more! We earlier made a post on how Mike Hussey defended Team Pakistan on such absurd allegations. You can read that blog post here.

One of our authors Owais, had following to say on the ongoing controversy:

It has become all the more silly and pointless by now - every time Pakistan loses a match some idiot would standup and make a cheap publicity stint , in this case Mr. Dasti (who needs to be Dasti Removed).

The irony is that when they accuse , they don’t even present any evidence or proof - they just say they looked this , they looked that ? and the ignorant (General Population - who are at the mercy of Media) would buy it - ‘CHEAP’ viwership and bucks by Media.

Im very satisfied with the performance of the team , they played their hearts out, Younis played with a broken finger, no one dare accuse them of any wrong doing. When all this is over would like PCB to bring Mr. Dasti to court and make an example out of him.

Well Done team Pakistan and YOunis Khan , you have all my support.

What is your take on this new cricketing drama? Leave us your comments (and shhh we won’t censor your comments if you abuse mr. Dasti shhh shhhh)

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1 Shazia 10.14.09 at 4:27 am

Our politicians can’t clean the mess inside the parliament house but are more then ready to throw dirt at our competent cricketers. They should better learn some basics of cricket and sportsmanship and then think of throwing dirt at our most respected cricketers.
Bravo Younis Khan. We all Support You.

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