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Yousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life

Bowled on 10th March, 2010 at 16:37 by King Cricket
Category: Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan

Even by Pakistan’s standards this must be some kind of a record.

After claiming to be on very firm ground with the punishments they’d doled out, the Pakistan Cricket Board has now said that actually what may have sounded like a life ban was no such thing. Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan are actually eligible for selection “as and when the PCB deems appropriate” – which will hopefully be in time for their next match.

Maybe they never meant it. Maybe they were misunderstood. Maybe their new coach, Waqar Younis, has thrown a fit. Maybe it’s all a big post-modern joke at the media’s expense.

Whatever it is, Rana Naved still doesn’t know what he’s done to get banned for a year.

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  1. Reply
    chowkster   //   March 10th, 2010 at 16:46

    Who is the captain of the Pak team these days?

  2. Reply
    King Cricket   //   March 10th, 2010 at 16:48

    ‘Days’ plural?

    That’s optimism.

  3. Reply
    D Charlton   //   March 10th, 2010 at 16:58

    Naved!? He was the worst of the lot. Can’t believe he’s got away with it for so long.

  4. Reply
    Deep Cower   //   March 10th, 2010 at 17:10

    It’s all quite simple really. I expect Mohammed Yousuf to change his name back to Yousuf Yohana, and bag a spot in the line up again, claiming he is a different man altogether.

  5. Reply
    Mahinda   //   March 10th, 2010 at 18:13

    Or Cat Stevens, perhaps.

    What do you mean, they’re not the same person?

  6. Reply
    Ged Ladd   //   March 10th, 2010 at 19:47

    Rumour has it that Waqar Younis has been replaced by Intikab Alum.

    Yousuf Islam has been replaced by Bob Woolmer.

    Rana Naved has been replaced by Sarfraz Nawaz.

    And the FBI are on the trail of Asif Mahsood, for obvious reasons.

    It’s all starting to make sense to me now.

  7. Reply
    me   //   March 11th, 2010 at 01:52

    If only they hadn’t let East Pakistan slip through their fingers…

  8. Reply
    Sandeep K   //   March 11th, 2010 at 06:04

    They were even considering banning Miandad and Imran Khan for breaking team unity but somebody told Ejaj “The BUTT” that they have retired just before the scheduled press conference.

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    tanvir   //   March 11th, 2010 at 16:07

    Hi I am from Bangladesh. “Yousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life” that news is really a painful news. both of them r great cricketer & I respect them. really that is a painful ending of their cricket life. Sorry Pakistan cricket team.
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