Cricket Update: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972, another victim of PCB, planning his retirement
Misbah-ul-Haq, another victim of the inept, crooked and self-centred PCB administration is planning to quit from the international cricket by the end of 2011. Misbah revealed that he will end his international career by next year, if the Pakistan Cricket Board and the selection committee continued its discriminatory attitude towards him.
Misbah-ul-Haq, whose Central contract with the board expires in December later this year, was ruled out of the ongoing tour of England in favour of young players, Umar Amin and Azhar Ali. The selector’s decision has left the middle order batsman quite upset, as he was reported saying, "It is very disappointing, you find yourself in the XI and suddenly you are not even in a preliminary squad of 35, it prompts you to burn all your cricket equipment in anger."
The disappointed batsman blaming his luck said that these days his luck is not favouring him, and that the inclusion of youngsters into the squad leaving him behind has forced him to blame his luck.
The Pakistan batsman said that even at the age of 36, he feels himself quite fit for international cricket. Misbah-ul-Haq claimed that his averages across all formats of cricket are much better than many of his teammates who have been sent to England for the exhaustive summer assignment. Misbah’s performance in the domestic circuit is pretty fine. He was the leading run-scorer of RBS Cup fifty-over tournament scoring 490 runs at 163.33. Playing for Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, he recorded century in the final game of the tournament.
Misbah, 36, made his international debut in 2001, averages 39 in one day, 36 in T20 and 33 in Test cricket, and has been in and out of the radar of Pakistan’s selection committee. Out of form, 2009 season dropped him, initially, from the tours of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746. After being dropped from the tours of New Zealand and Australia, Misbah focused again on his domestic game and struck back in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. His domestic performance earned him call up from the board to shore up the inexperienced batting line-up touring New Zealand. His last appearance in the international arena was during the World T20 Championship in the Caribbean in May this year and was dropped subsequently from the Asia cup and tour of England.
The middle order player said that he is looking for an opportunity in the next year’s Cricket World Cup, as he wants to end his international career on a high note. Misbah said that if he failed to find a place in quadrennial mega event of the international cricket, he always has the doors of domestic circuit open to prove his mettle.
Misbah admitted that he has been out of form for the last one year; however, he said that despite his poor performance he is still crazy about the game.
"My performance in the last 12 months hasn't been up to the mark but my passion for the game remains," said Misbah. "Therefore, I have planned a time frame to my cricketing career and decided to quit cricket at the end of 2011."
The Pakistan Cricket Board is in the hands of the inept management it has ever seen. The struggle among the PCB officials to get the power has ruined the prestige of the leading sport’s body of Pakistan, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket board (PCB).The management has turned the PCB headquarter into a hub of controversies, rivalries, altercations and politics shaking the high standards of Pakistan cricket to the core. The PCB is working under an autocratic frame of mind where the authorities have no regrets at all.
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