Pak cricket: Younis all set to meet Butt to resurrect his career
The most controversial Pakistani cricketer of recent times, former captain Younis Khan, has confirmed that he has received a notice from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), demanding him to meet the chairman PCB Ijaz Butt to discuss his persistent axing from
the national side.
Younis Khan, who is leading http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peshawar-c832 Panthers in the domestic T20 tournament of Pakistan, told the media reporters in Lahore that the letter just wants him to see the PCB chairman and nothing else. The out-of-favour Test veteran has agreed to meet the uncrowned
king of PCB in a bid to resurrect his international career.
"I was expecting a lot more in the letter but it just asks me to meet the chairman and I have no problems doing that. I think in the next two or three days the chairman will give me time and I will meet him," said Younis.
The 32-year-old middle-order prodigy served an indefinite ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board for disciplinary reasons in the outcome of a devastating tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 team lost in all the formats. The ban on Younis seemed to
have been overturned earlier in June, when an appellate tribunal referred his case back to PCB and the player was included in the probable’s list for the continental cricket tournament, the Asia Cup.
The selection committee left the cricket pundits and the fans open mouthed by snubbing Younis from the final squad of the Asia Cup. Younis has not been picked in the national side since then, as he has not been cleared by the PCB chairman for the selection.
The sources have revealed that the uncrowned king taking Younis’ return to the national side as a prestige point and is expecting an apology from the batsman. Besides Younis, some half dozen other players were also punished and banned and have now been called
back after they apologised to the PCB chief. Younis Khan declined to issue an apology to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 believing that he has done nothing wrong for which he should apologise.
Younis opined that he has always been eager to play for the national side but did not want to speculate over his cricketing future. "Who doesn't want to play for his country? But I cannot say anything about my future at this stage,
until I have my meeting with the board chairman," said the test player.
Younis could have been issued a show-cause notice by the PCB asking him to address the allegations laid against him, had he refused to contact the board.
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