Re: Just another day at the PCB

by DJ_Smerk on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:02

FFS Merls, it was the Waltz. He was sniffing Charleston backstage with Asif.

by Brass Monkey on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:11

I thought it was ballet; a nice pirouette. Still whadda I know. Anyways. Thunderqunting cheater. Shahid Acheati. How he thought both of those incidents would not be picked up on is beyond me.

by Henry on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:21

Hardly surprising that the PCB directs the blame solely at the players and takes no responsibility for Pakistan's poor showing whatsoever.

by Merlin on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:24

PCB Motto : The buck doesn't stop here ... but it could do in my overseas slush fund account.

by Brass Monkey on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:26

Henry wrote:Hardly surprising that the PCB directs the blame solely at the players and takes no responsibility for Pakistan's poor showing whatsoever.

In what regard shouldn't they? If they're citing certain players for the unrest, would they be incorrect? Maybe I don't know as much as I should. Seems to me, they were individuals getting too big for their boots - a bit like England though on a more dramatic scale.

by Merlin on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:29

Have to say Mohammed Yousef's indictment does surprise me.
Aways figured he was a mellow guy, talented and without malice ...
Switched from Christianism to Islam and all that .... grew a beard .... etc.
But I guess, looks can deceive!

by Henry on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:29

But they selected the players in the first place. They're clearly trying to deflect accountability in order to keep their jobs.

by Brass Monkey on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:43

Merlin wrote:Have to say Mohammed Yousef's indictment does surprise me.
Aways figured he was a mellow guy, talented and without malice ...
Switched from Christianism to Islam and all that .... grew a beard .... etc.
But I guess, looks can deceive!

That's probably why Wink

They don't seem him as a proper Muslim - wanted to villify him.

by Brass Monkey on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 02:44

Henry wrote:But they selected the players in the first place. They're clearly trying to deflect accountability in order to keep their jobs.

Yeah, but we just don't know the sitch. They could've said "Look, we're picking you but don't act a qunt". You can't blame the board for the individual's behaviour.

by DJ_Smerk on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 03:28

PCB in dropping/banning/suspending everyone and everything shocker.

Next they'll ban Aamer for having a dicky groin.

by Batman on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 03:31

Funny things is binning YK. Guy did not get co-operation as a captain from afridi & co., didn't even tour Aus and yet got blamed for the mess. Quite bizarre.

by PlanetPakistan on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 03:44

Needless drama again....
UNLESS there is match fixing involved court will overturn all of these bans

p.s the "bans" on Yousuf and Younis are NOT life bans so i am sure both players will be back for the tour of England.

by Rachel on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 05:20

oh, hokey cokey cokey...!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/mar/10/pakistan-younis-khan-mohammed-yousuf-banned

seems like the english judicial system, the pcb do not think that life has to mean life.

by The One on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 05:33

thats quicker than usual for the pcb

by Eric Air Emu on Wed 10 Mar 2010, 07:20

After England's last 5-0 tour to Australia I would have been in favour of few bans, suspensions & fines so I can see where the PCB are coming from. Not really logical or effective in anyway but what a lot of fun!

You do worry about the future of Pakistan as a whole if their cricket is in anyway a microcosm of their society in general.