Leaked video shows Pakistan cricket officials suspicious of match fixing

[mastermind_quad]

Pakistan cricket is facing a fresh controversy as the video recording of the recent PCB inquiry committee proceedings has been leaked. A TV Channel aired the video recordings of the statements made by officials and players in February-March and what came out was infighting and lack of unity in the team. Intikhab and Aaqib, who were coaches during that disastrous tour, were seen telling the committee members that they wanted to send back Shoaib Malik from New Zealand because of his negative personality but on the insistence of captain Mohammed Yousuf did not take that step. Aaqib, when asked about the performance of wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal in the second Test in Sydney where he dropped four catches and missed a run-out, is heard saying that there was something fishy. "I have reservations over the way he (Kamran) missed the run-out. when I saw it I couldn't believe it. How he could miss such a big run-out. I can't say 100 percent there is match-fixing involved but I have my strong suspicion," Aaqib said. "I know all about it because I was a victim of it. In 1998 I presented evidence against players but the Judge who was hearing the inquiry ended the matter," he added. Aaqib, a former Test pacer, who was removed after the tour, also expressed suspicions about the performance of Rana Naved in a T20 match in Australia. "We have heard things about him as well." Aaqib is heard telling the committee that Younus Khan faced problems because he did not encourage players when they performed well and that he remained aloof from other players. He also talks about how Shoaib Malik told him about a meeting held at Inzamam-ul-Haq's residence by some players including Yousuf, Afridi, Malik, Kamran, Saeed Ajmal and Misbah-ul-Haq, where they took an oath that they would stick together and not tolerate any injustice from Younus Khan. In the video recordings of Intikhab Alam, they are more revelations. "Kamran is a match-winner but every time we came close to a victory he played a bad shot and got out. I told him he is not doing justice to himself," Intikhab is heard saying. "I was flabbergasted when Kamran missed the run out. I have serious doubts about him. I have heard stories about match fixing. Even if we give him benefit of doubt it is unbelievable how he could miss the run-out," Intikhab says. Interestingly when Muhammad Yousuf during his hearing was asked about Kamran's run-out he said, "Some things are obviously clear what shall I say." He expresses similar reservations about Rana Naved to the committee members. Intikhab and Aaqib also told the committee members that they were sure that Umar Akmal had faked his back injury after the Sydney Test when he learnt that his brother Kamran was not going to play in the third Test. Intikhab said he has seen no evidence of match fixing by players other than what he sees on the field. He is also critical about the players behavior and said, "These players lack lot of things. Education, background and at times I felt they were mentally retarded people. "They do not understand the repercussions when they play badly and they don't listen to what you tell them, problem lies in their heads, they don't understand." During the hearing, when Wazir Ali Khoja, a member, said that it is time the bad fish be removed from the team, Intikhab had positive words for Younus Khan. "He is not a trouble maker he has personality problems and remains aloof," Intikhab said. But when asked by the committee members to suggest remedial measures he named Yousuf, Misbah, Malik, Kamran and Younus as the players who must be dropped from the team. Both the coaches talk in length about how Younus, Yousuf, Malik and Afridi never got along and played politics affecting the team spirit. http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/international-cricket/news/detail/item442038/PCB-enquiry-committee-proceedings-leaked/

[Roshanrocks]

wow where is this video being shown? any links? :hmmm:

[mastana]

[mastana]

Afridi, Yousuf thought Malik is bad influence on Pak team: Report

Banned former captain Shoaib Malik was seen as a "negative character and a bad influence" on the Pakistan cricket team by senior players like Shahid Afridi and Mohd Yousuf, the leaked video of a PCB inquiry committee's proceedings has revealed. The video has statements by Pakistan's former coaches, Intikhab Alam and Aaqib Javed and players Rana Naved, Yousuf, Afridi and Malik himself. From their comments it becomes apparent that Malik is the most unpopular person in the team. Malik, who recently married Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and is serving a one-year ban for indiscipline, is described as an "intriguer" and someone who promotes politics. Malik along with four other players (the others being Younus Khan, Muhammad Yousuf and Rana Naved) were banned on the recommendations of an inquiry committee in March. And after listening to the comments about Malik, one committee member remarks, "Dimak ki tarah tha wo (He was like termite)." "He is a negative person and he creates problems. I wanted him to be sent back home," former coach Intikhab Alam is heard telling the committee members. Former assistant coach Aaqib Javed also has no good words for Malik but insists that the all-rounder is not the only one creating disunity in the team. They also talk about how Malik faked an injury and refused to play on a green looking track in Queenstown at the start of the tour of New Zealand. Intikhab also complains about how Malik after, agreeing to bat at number three, refused to do so in New Zealand and also purposefully sat out from the second Test in Sydney against Australia. The comments made by former captain, Muhammad Yousuf about Malik reveal the strong differences between them. "He played politics all the time. Former Chairman, Dr Nasim Ashraf made a big blunder and hurt Pakistan cricket when he appointed Malik captain in 2007 when his place in the side was also not confirmed. This led to other players also believing they could become captain, it set a wrong precedent in Pakistan cricket," Yousuf says.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/cricketnews/Afridi-Yousuf-thought-Malik-is-bad-influence-on-Pak-team-Report/Article1-545208.aspx What will happen to Sania Mirza? :fear:

[vvvslaxman]

Yawn

[Roshanrocks]

shaadi ke baad sudhar jayega...aaj kal toh woh biwi ko follow follow kar raha hai :hmmm:

[achilles]

aaj kal toh woh biwi ko follow follow kar raha hai :hmmm:

Does that mean he too will underperform? :giggle:

[cricket786]

I saw this on tv, where Afridi continuously talked about Malik being so and so during the time he (malik) was captain and from thereon and he made these statements right after the Aus tour, prior to PCB choosing any captain for the T20 tournament. If Malik was such a bad influence ever since he was captain how come none of the players complained then? Right after Afridi got banned for merely a few days for that ball biting incident, Malik was chosen as captain for the few T20 matches against the Aussies and when they returned to Pak, that's when Afridi made these statements in front of the inquiry commitee. I feel it's a case of Afridi being insecure because he also said if I were to become captain I wouldn't ever choose Malik in my team etc etc. Afridi seems like the guy who'd do anything to become captain. As far as Yousuf is concerned, he has caused many problems himself, shouldn't even be talking. Likewise for Afridi actually. In all of this what surprises me is Malik still hasn't said anything against his fellow teammates at such a personal level and neither has Younis Khan.

[mastana]

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[Prudent]

LLm6bRZqgkk :--D

[Guest OriginalPrince]

Pakistan is a joke. Only way up is to drop everybody in the team and start all over again.

[StriKe]

Leaked video shows Pakistan cricket officials suspicious of match fixing ISLAMABAD — The leaking of video showing Pakistan team management raising suspicions about match-fixing has resulted in Pakistan Cricket Board officials, coaches and players being summoned to appear in front of a parliamentary committee. The match-fixing suspicions and parliamentary probe are the latest fallout from Pakistan's woeful tour of Australia early this year when Pakistan lost three Test matches, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international. A PCB committee of inquiry had already given heavy fines and suspensions to several players for ill discipline and poor performance. Except for Mohammad Yousuf the other six — Shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan and Rana Naved — have filed appeals with a PCB-appointed arbitrator Irfan Qadir. In the leaked video, coaches raised doubts about wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, who dropped four catches and missed an easy run out during the second Test at Sydney. Coach Intikhab Alam said he was "flabbergasted" when Kamran missed the runout of Shane Watson and later he also heard stories of match fixing. Aqib Javed, who was part of Pakistan's 1992 World Cup winning squad, had strong reservations over the wicketkeeper's poor performance. "When I saw it I couldn't believe it. How he could miss such a big runout?" he told the the PCB's committee of inquiry into "I can't say 100 per cent that there is match-fixing, but I have my strong suspicions." "I know all about it because I was a victim of it. In 1998, I presented evidence against players but the judge who was hearing the inquiry ended the matter." Pakistan cricket had been plagued with match-fixing since 1999 when an inquiry headed by Justice Mohammad Qayyum handed life bans on former Test captain Salim Malik and fast bowler Ataur Rehman and also fined several players. Last year a parliamentarian accused Pakistan of match-fixing during the Champions Trophy in South Africa which resulted in Younis stepping down from the captaincy. "We will even propose a committee of retired judges to investigate how does the PCB work," chairman of lower house standing committee on sports Iqbal Mohammad Ali told AP on Thursday. The committee has summoned PCB chief Ijaz Butt, chief operating officer Wasim Bari (also head of the inquiry committee), Younis, manager Yawar Saeed and the then chief selector Iqbal Qasim for a May 25 meeting. The parliamentarian also had strong reservations on the inquiry committee which included all PCB officials. "It was not a neutral committee and that's the main reason that now we will propose a committee of retired judges," Ali said. "After the leakage of this video, I am very confident that president will also take a serious notice and streamline the affairs of PCB." Ali wondered why Kamran was not sent home if coaches doubted his integrity. "What were they (coaches) doing when they had doubts?" Ali questioned. "They should have then taken a strong action and sent him back home as there was one more Test after Sydney, five ODIs and a Twenty20." Meanwhile, Australia Test vice-captain Michael Clarke said he had no suspicions about the Sydney Test. "Looking back it was a wonderful Test match and a huge win for us, but I certainly had no suspicions," Clarke was quoted to say by Australian Associated Press. Former Australia captain Steve Waugh said he would be "devastated" if the allegations were true. "To have someone come out and say it wasn't quite right, that would be very damaging to the game and also to Pakistan," Waugh said. "There's always a lot of rumours, people have got to bring evidence to the table because otherwise it does damage the game of cricket." Waugh said it was very hard to prove match-fixing — especially in Test matches which go for six hours a day. "There's a lot of mistakes made because they are human, a lot of great things happen. How you distinguish between those I don't know, that's always going to be the hard part. "Unless you've got hard evidence you are better off keeping your mouth closed because sport is like that, if it's too predictable no-one would watch it." http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jVnuLXmmclJMSQ01xN9o4KyUmr3Q Video was show in CNN IBN fewn mins ago

[Desi Cartman]

Now I know why they have banned youtube , they dont want pakistanis to watch this clipping :idea:

[Temujin Khaghan]

i think a lot of u saw this already. but still the situation calls for it.:cantstop:

[Karan114]

ACSU investigating Pakistan's Australia tour Cricinfo staff May 20, 2010 The ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) is investigating Pakistan's tour of Australia in 2009-10 to establish whether Pakistan's disastrous on-field performance was the result of what it called a "dysfunctional" team or "something more serious". Paul Condon, the ACSU's outgoing chief, said the investigation was being carried out with the PCB. Condon's comments, at a press conference at Lord's, come in the wake of reports in the media suggesting reasons for Pakistan's performance. The PCB has been conducting its own investigations into the Australia tour and, over the past few days, a leaked video recording of the committee's hearings has revealed the level of in-fighting and disunity within the Pakistan side, confirming speculation surrounding the level of distrust and discord between senior members of the side. "There has been an ongoing investigation since the time, because it is a series that worried us," Condon said. "We spent a lot of time talking to the players and the PCB but part of the challenge is to find where the solid fact is, because what you've got there is a lot of internecine strife within the team and within Pakistan politics, with rival camps making allegations. "We are satisfied that that was a totally dysfunctional tour from a Pakistani point of view, and that dysfunctionality in the dressing room led to players not performing well, and maybe making them potentially underperform deliberately. What we still need to establish is whether that was because rival camps wanted to do down captains or potential captains, or whether it was something more serious, doing it for a financial fix. "We are working very closely with the PCB but at the moment it is a flurry of allegation, rather than any hard fact. The investigations at the time suggested it was more about a dysfunctional team, rather than matchfixing. But it is a live inquiry." The PCB took action against seven players after the committee concluded its investigations, though they never made public the report. Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan were banned indefinitely, Shoaib Malik and Naved-ul-Hasan were banned for a year while Shahid Afridi and the Akmal brothers, Umar and Kamran, were fined and placed on probation for six months for specific incidents of indiscipline. http://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/460381.html

[Sachinism]

No longer should there be doubts that the current batch of players are among the most pathetic characters to have represented Pakistan. The leaked video of the PCB's inquiry committee hearings has simply confirmed, and put incontrovertibly and forever on the greatest mirror of our times, television, what many already knew: that this band of senior players care not for anything but themselves, that they cannot be captained by anyone, that they are governed by their greed for power and that they will, most shockingly, deliberately underperform to undermine their captain. Pathetic is barely condemnation. This has been the way since Inzamam-ul-Haq left: so much factionalism, so many groups with different interests that nobody even remembers who is on whose side anymore. Shoaib Malik is a central figure. He has been ably supported by men such as Salman Butt, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal and a handful of others, including even managers such as Yawar Saeed. What their aim has ever been is not certain, other than reinstating Malik as captain. Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Yousuf have brought their own agendas. Afridi was used - or chose to be used - by Malik's lot in trying to bring down Younis Khan as captain. Yousuf's one-point agenda, meanwhile, has been to get rid of Malik somehow, with whom he has publicly rowed since 2007. Younis has had, what the master of the non-answer, Intikhab Alam, called, his own issues. Two captains, Younis and Yousuf, have publicly said their players were actively trying to uproot them. The most shocking parts of the video - and there are enough - are Rana Naved-ul-Hasan's happy confessions of first siding against and then siding with Younis, and underperforming under him. He says it with unrepentant, shocking candour. When Younis was captain, up to eight players met (typically, there are conflicting reports over where, and thus, how many times) to take an oath of allegiance to not play under him. An oath of allegiance to not play under him: nothing better captures the stench of these men than this, a quasi-official act of loyalty in the ultimate cause of disloyalty. There is so much distrust that they don't even trust each other to unite in the face of a common enemy unless an allegiance is shamefully made to higher authorities. Less *****iness will be found in a season of either Gossip Girl or Pakistan's parliament. So intense has been the infighting and factionalism that it shocked a member even of the coaching set-up on the Australia tour, one fully involved in the bad days of the 90s, when there were more captains in any XI than players. But in those days, he said, once they were on the field such differences were put aside so that matches could be won (at least, the blighted history of this country's cricket forces us to recall, those matches that weren't fixed). That was evident in results from the decade. Younger players, such as Umar Akmal and Mohammad Aamer, are being drawn in. Their talent will never fail them but their personalities will. The younger Akmal, in particular, has developed the kind of cockiness and arrogance that will make him as many enemies as he will runs. Aamer has been involved in a serious dust-up with Umar Gul, over as small a matter as a dropped catch. And the ogling of women - no cricket crime, really - that Afridi refers to, is in at least one case directed at Aamer, who put down Ricky Ponting at deep fine leg in Hobart, minutes after just such a distraction. Neither Akmal nor Aamer is yet a full year into the international game. It is a shameful, sorry spectacle, even when we think we are inured to such. It's no bad thing that the PCB has handed out such punishments as it has; after all, the one thing the video makes abundantly clear is that these men cannot play with each other, at least not without harming the team. But the board should have been more open when it was handing out the punishments, if only to spare themselves this current headache. And they should also have sacked themselves for not being able to handle the situation. As much as it is an exposé of the rot among the players, it is also an indictment of the absolute incompetence of the PCB's top hierarchy. They failed to back any captain they selected, they appointed managers who couldn't handle situations, and in fact exacerbated them, and they let the situation fester. If players have been banned, so should Ijaz Butt, Wasim Bari, Yawar Saeed and others be told to go, to hopefully end what is among the sorriest periods in the history of this cricketing nation. http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/460463.html Reading that article, I lost track of who sided with who lol But what a mess Pakistani cricket is in. Osman says, its the sorriest period in the history of Pakistan, as a cricketing nation, but I'm sure its the sorriest period for anything cricketing nation. Aamer dropped Ponting after trying to chat up some girls :haha: What a clown lol

[achilles]

Osman ka dil jal ke raakh ho jayega.

[Aaku]

' Bahar jaatey hai.. autograph detey hai, larkiyon ko taaktey hai!' :cantstop:

[vvvslaxman]

Osman says, its the sorriest period in the history of Pakistan, as a cricketing nation, but I'm sure its the sorriest period for anything cricketing nation. Aamer dropped Ponting after trying to chat up some girls :haha: What a clown lol

They always say "this is the sorriest" period for the last 5 or 6 years.