Razzaq rubbishes cheating allegations - Cricket News Update
Seasoned http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Razzaq-c41623 has rubbished reports that he had misled the national selectors and the Pakistan Cricket Board regarding his fitness, in order to miss the ODI series against England.
Reliable sources inside the Pakistan Cricket Board last week claimed that in order to play in the ongoing lucrative http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 Premier League (BPL), the senior all-rounder had deceived the board and the selectors, saying that he was not fully fit to bowl
in the one day series against England in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033. But the later, was seen bowling successfully in the Bangladesh’s domestic Twenty20 league raising a few eyebrows back home.
However, the 32-year-old right arm medium pacer who is playing for the Rajshahi team in the BPL, downplayed the allegations and said that he was still not 100 percent fit to bowl a spell of seven to eight overs.
"I have read that I told the selectors I was not fit to bowl and not to consider me for the one-day series against England . This is not correct," said Razzaq speaking to a private sports channel from Chittagong.
"The fact is that I had informed the selectors and the Chairman of the board that I was not 100 per cent fit to play one-day internationals that is why I had chosen to go and play in the T20 matches in the Bangladesh league…I am still not 100 per cent fit,"
the all-rounder reiterated.
Razzaq, a hard hitting lower order batsman, said that if he had played in the ODIs against England, he would have been expected to deliver 7 to 10 overs a game, but in the BPL he has to deliver 12 to 14 overs in six matches.
The right-hander, who struggled both with the bat and the ball during Pakistan’s series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, sources inside the PCB claimed. Once he mentioned that he was
not 100 per cent fit, the PCB allowed him to go and play in the Bangladesh Premier League.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Razzaq-c84421 has to date played 265 One Day Internationals and 46 Tests compiling 5080 and 1946 runs in each format respectively.
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