Former manager of Team Pakistan laments over last year’s spot-fixing scam – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, has outpoured great regret and sorrow over the team’s spot fixing scandal of last year as he thinks that it is an irreparable loss for Pakistan’s cricket both in terms of honour and personnel.
He claims that had the banned trio of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Salman-Butt-c2418 been in the team, the team’s future would have been secure.
The trio has been subjected to long bans by the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in the Test series last year.
An English tabloid ccused the three players of deliberately delivering no-balls during their Test at Lord’s in August 2010. The report proved to be true after verification and the players ended up getting severe punishments along with bringing sheer disgrace
to the image of their nation.
Now, analysts argue that this penalty may destroy the careers of Asif and Butt as they will get overage till the waiver of the ban. However, Aamer can make comeback in the team.
Saeed, who had been the team manager at that time, considers it to be a severe blow for Pakistan.
Talking to the media today, he said, “I still feel they were set up but the fault lies with them and it seems they did it for temporary monetary gains. Even today it's hair-raising when I remember that incident.”
Recalling the incident, he told, “We were settling in the hotel after coming from the third day's play when police raided the team hotel, showed us documentation and searched the rooms of the players.”
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, added, “Losing three players hurt us badly. alman had shown great potential as captain but after that case we had to look around for a permanent captain and it was tough."
The Men in Green missed the banned players in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 where they lost in the semi-final round. As they are currently playing a bilateral series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045, Saeed believes that they will surely feel the absence of the talented
trio.
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