Yawar Saeed quits as Pakistan manager
Pakistan cricket manager Yawar Saeed officially quit his post on Monday after he had previously announced his intentions to do so during the recent series between England and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. The Pakistan Cricket
Board published a press release stating that Saeed had informed the cricket board that he did not want to continue as the manager of the Pakistani team and that the PCB chairman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 had agreed with his decision.
Saeed had earlier said on different occasions that unless he was stopped by the PCB chairman the series between Pakistan and England would be his last one. Pakistan played two Twenty20s and a couple of Test
matches against the Aussies in England before embarking on four Tests, two Twenty20s and five ODIs against hosts England.
Saeed was a part of the Pakistani side in different roles over the years. He had been the manager of the team till the 2009 edition of the Champions Trophy before stepping down and made way for a new manager.
However, his absence from the Pakistani side did not augur too well as the side went from one defeat to another and lost nine successive games on their tour of Australia. In the process, they lost three Test matches, five ODIs and one T20I.
Saeed was then requested by the PCB chairman Butt to rejoin the team for the ICC World T20 and the tour of England.
His last tour of England will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. The tour had started off well with T20I wins over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and a Test match victory against the same opposition. However, the Tests
against England were lost and this was followed by the allegations of match-fixing against three of the Pakistani players. All three players, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt were suspended by the International Cricket Council.
Later, the ICC revealed that they had begun investigations against the Pakistani batsmen for suspicious scoring patterns in the Oval ODI, which had led to the chairman of PCB Butt to accuse the English batsmen
of match-fixing. An angered English cricket board reacted with issuing a notice to the chairman to apologise or face legal action.
Earlier, there had also been rumours that Saeed was involved in match-fixing, but he had denied them and said that there was no question of resigning in the middle of the tour. He had said, “I'm not an employee
of the board and nor do I have a long-term contract with it, so there is no question of resigning.”
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