Fans of Doctor Who and Pakistan cricket will be hoping that the Tardis lands at the HQ of the PCB as soon as possible after Ijaz Butt and his Dalek cronies decided that the best cure for Pakistan cricket's ills was to exterminate most of its best players.
As a result of the inquiry into the disastrous tour of Australia, Butt has taken unprecedented action and effectively sacked Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the Pakistan side for good. One year bans have been given to Shoaib Malik and Naved-ul-Hasan, and suspended sentences and heavy fines to the Akmal brothers and Shahid Afridi.
According to Cricinfo, the PCB said that "Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan, keeping in view their infighting which resulted in bringing down the whole team, their attitude has a trickledown effect which is a bad influence for the whole team should not be part of national team in any format." So the two have been exterminated forthwith, which is incredible given that even the leaders of the Royal Bank of Scotland were not dealt with so severely after they bought the bank and the UK economy to the brink of extinction.
Malik and Naved have also apparently been punished for disruptive behaviour although the PCB statement didn't gp into detail. Certainly the spat between Yousuf and Malik over the captaincy plummeted to schoolboy levels, but bans seem a bit of an over -reaction to say the least.
The Akmal brothers were stunned rather than exterminated by the daleks for the farce following the Sydney test when Kamran insisted he would play at Hobart and Umar apparently feigned injury when his brother's exclusion finally became inevitable. And Afridi was fined for mistaking a cricket ball for an apple with the PCB spokesman explaining "for the shameful act of Shahid Khan Afridi, which has brought the game and country into disrepute, he be fined Rupees 3 million."Reportedly, Afridi was surrounded by daleks and was only spared after he begged for forgiveness.
So what next for Pakistan cricket? The situation is now such a mess that even the Doctor's sonic screwdriver may not be enough to save Pakistan from the abyss and the all powerful Davros Butt.
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