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Showing posts with label Ijaz Butt. Show all posts
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Shahid Afridi's Retirement Nightmare
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Unprecedented: PCB's Ijaz Butt speaks to Kochi's Satyajit Gaekwad
Ijaz Butt: Hello, is that Anshuman Gaekwad?
Satyajit Gaekwad: No
Ijaz Butt: I thought this was Mr Gaekwad’s number?
Satyajit Gaekwad: Yes
Ijaz Butt: Then give him the phone you fool
Satyajit Gaekwad: I am Mr. Gaekwad
Ijaz Butt: But you just said you are not
Satyajit Gaekwad: No I did not
Ijaz Butt: Yes you did
Satyajit Gaekwad: You asked for Anshuman…
Ijaz Butt: …Gaekwad
Satyajit Gaekwad: I am Satyajit Gaekwad…
Ijaz Butt: No, no...the name is Satyajit Ray…
Satyajit Gaekwad: Who the #@&+*$# are you #$%@
Ijaz Butt: I am Ijaz Butt speaking
Satyajit Gaekwad: Hello Mr Butt
Ijaz Butt: Hello Mr Gaekwad, I have a plan to save the Kochi franchise…but first you must employ my services in addition to the services of… Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah ul Haq…do you hear me...
Satyajit Gaekwad: please continue Mr Butt I am listening
Ijaz Butt: Yes, we are all used to infighting…this is child's play for us
Satyajit Gaekwad: Brilliant Mr. Butt, brilliant...when can we start…Mr Butt?
Ijaz Butt: In one month, till then we need to put our house in order…
England wants an apology from Butt.
england wants butt to apologise for his “deeply hurting” accusation that their players took a bribe to lose the oval odi...
english players were so badly hurt by the statement that they collapsed from 112 for no loss to 227 all out later at lord's...
when ecb chief executive david collier was confronted with the fact that trott not only called pakistani player wahab riaz a “match fixer” but hit him in the face with a pad... david said...
the incident was “fairly minor in nature”...
he also highlighted the numbers... butt accused the whole english team while trott called only one pakistani player a “match fixer”
david also said "there is protocol in place that says… although players can accuse… sledge… name call each other and occasionally hit them with pads…board chiefs are not supposed to indulge in such activities… besides trott has apologised so butt must apologise too…”
match referee crowe, when asked, why trott was not punished despite having hit riaz's face with a pad claimed match referees are supposed to stay awake ONLY when the match is being played.
ECB to PCB:
by Kartik Chintamani
As Sunny once said... I was the king of park cricket... But that bloody Lalit Berry always got me with his beamers.
A day in the life of Younis Khan
While MoYo makes his mark in cricket, Younis makes the bed tea. Dazzling in an all-white kurta pajama (to remind him of the glory days), he wakes early, smile plastered on face, gotta be positive, and opens the door for the milkman.
Milkman: Younis Bhai, I have often wondered how you can be ever so smiling
Younis takes this remark personally, and walks away, as he often does with his cricket. But then again, as he often does in cricket, he returns smiling – this time, packed with a reply
Younis: Milkman bhai, I have often wondered if you learn your English from Goodness Gracious Me!
Milkman: 1000 apologies, Younis Bhai, it is from videos of Mind your Language…but tell me,Younis Bhai, how will you play for Pakistan again?
Cut to Ijaz Butt’s office
Butt: Younis, we just had a special screening of The Dark Knight for all the PCB – and you know what they’re saying – Younis is like that joker, he’s always smiling – he is evil!
Younis starts to sing Chris Rea’s You must be evil, all this while still smiling
Younis: You must be evil…
Butt as he often does, takes it personally, and accuses Younis
Butt: You are evil…how will you play for Pakistan again?
On his way back home, Younis picks some naans and mutton curry from the local restaurant. While doing so, the owner enters into conversation
Owner: Always so cheerful, always smiling – Younis, let me tell you this much – you must do something, burn Ijaz Butt effigies, retire from cricket, grow a beard, marry an Indian…but not smile
Younis throws the food in disgust and walks away, as he often does in cricket – only to return, smiling.
Owner: If you keep going away, how will you play for Pakistan again..
Younis Khan at home, watches as the kids play cricket – he asks to be included in a team
Kid: What, when the team if being made you always go away, then you want to play in the last minute
Kid2: Younis Chacha, forget playing with us, will you play for Pakistan again?
Younis smiles, and turns away...but as he turns away tears start to roll down…and it starts to rain.
And this song starts to play: The rain falls down...on last year's man
And Younis fades to black.
Who Wears The Pants In This Family?
So who decides if Pakistan needs a strong middle order? On cricinfo, they've taken pains to name all the people who were involved in that decision making meeting:
The PCB said in a statement that Kamran Akmal would be Butt's vice-captain for the Tests in England and that the matter concerning the inclusion of Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf in the team was also discussed at a meeting but was deferred.
Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, convened a meeting on Saturday involving the team management and senior players to discuss the way forward following Afridi's decision to retire from Tests. The meeting was attended by the team manager Yawar Saeed, coach Waqar Younis, associate manager Shafqat Rana, Salman Butt, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal and Umar Gul.
Besides having one Butt too many in that meeting, there seems to be a peculiar mix of "senior" players in the meeting. I don't recall, what position did Shoaib Mirza bat at again in the previous test? Oh, thats right, they played a débutante ahead of him! As a "senior" player of considerable new "influence", his opinion on team harmony must have been crucial. This after a stats piece showed just how dependent the team is on a strong middle order. "matter deferred" it seems, at this rate soon your cricket will be "deferred" too Butthead...
pcb makes sense this time...
before the pakistani team's departure for the asia cup... ijaz-butt-of-all-jokes hurriedly arranged a press conference and this is what he said...
pakistan cricket has seen it all in recent times... match fixing... infighting... indiscipline... ugly politics... to cut it short... you name it we had it... so we were obviously worried what to do now to live up to the 'promise' we are known for... and we are glad we have found a solution in shoaib akhtar... who will not only keep the team management busy with his antics but will continuously provide fodder to our media partners... to keep the show going... i wish all the luck to our boys... with the hope that they will not let us down with their on and off field activities... thank you...
shoaib akhtar could not be contacted for comment... we were told he was busy getting the medical certificate from... oh sorry... please pardon me... i just forgot wart was the name of that department...
Retard.
February 25, 2010
Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, has said no Pakistani team will participate in the Champions League Twenty20 this year.
"I have already spoken to Lalit Modi about this and there is no chance of any team from Pakistan playing in the Champions League this year," Butt was quoted as saying by PTI. "After the way our players were treated [in the IPL auction] I don't see our players or teams taking part in the Champions League this year."
The Champions League features the best domestic Twenty20 teams from across the world. The first edition of the tournament was held in India last year. Pakistan was originally included as one of the participating countries, but they were omitted due to the political fallout of the Mumbai terror attacks. The venue for the 2010 tournament is yet to be announced.
Despite the exclusion, and the subsequent IPL cold-shoulder, Lalit Modi had expressed confidence that Pakistan would return to future editions of the leagues. Butt, however, said that this was still undecided.
"Our future participation in the IPL and Champions League remains undecided but this year atleast we are not taking part in either event."
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May 25, 2010
After the IPL snub, Pakistan suffered fresh humiliation when their domestic T20 champions, Sialkot Stallions, were not picked for the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20), to be held in South Africa in September.
The CLT20 governing council on Monday announced the names of the ten teams that will participate in the tournament's second edition.
Despite being eligible, Pakistan were not invited to participate. Teams from India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the West Indies will compete in the $2.5 million event from September 10-26.
“We were hoping to get an invitation for the Champions League this year, but that is not to be it seems. The Stallions were ready to participate and we were looking forward to it,” Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, Ijaz Butt, told HT on Monday.
The Stallions had qualified for the inaugural CLT20 in 2008, but it got deferred due to the Mumbai terror attacks. The following year, the event was held in India and no team from Pakistan was invited due to troubled ties between the two countries.
Things were looking up this year when Pakistan cricketers were given visa clearance to play in IPL III (though they couldn’t play) and their hockey team participated in the World Cup in India.
The PCB chairman had confirmed to the Hindustan Times that, if invited, the Stallions were ready to participate. Though the Champions League dates clashed with Pakistan’s tour of England, he had assured it wouldn’t stop the Stallions from fielding a full side.
On Monday, Butt called the snub “scandalous” and found no reason to be left out, especially when the event was not being held in India.
“I am constantly surprised by this treatment meted out to our cricketers. IPL did the same thing to us, we ran from pillar to post to get the paper work done, the Indian sports minister so willingly helped us, but finally no one got picked in the auction. This is absolutely scandalous. There is no reason for them to ignore us like that,” said Butt.
“Even last year we didn’t get an invite for the Champions League. We tried to enquire about the situation but there was no response. How can one judge us without sending an invite?” he wondered.
The PCB chairman hoped these were not signs of Pakistan being isolated and vowed to take up the issue in the next ICC meeting.
“We will definitely take up this issue with the ICC. This is unfair treatment to one of the senior members of the ICC.”
The CLT20 is an initiative of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA).
Satyameva Jayate
You know the argument, the one which says that the Champions League is not quite the Champions League because the Pakistanis are not in it.
But but, I say, what about the ban on the Pakistan players imposed by the Government of Pakistan?
Bogus, you say, it is all Modi's fault.. He made some bogus claims about cut off dates and Pakistani government clearances to shut the door on Pakistan.And hey, the poor Pakistanis were not even aware of their exclusion.
But but, I say, there is nothing forthcoming from either the PCB or the Pakistan Foreign Ministry on cricketers being allowed to travel to India. So the status quo has not changed.
Hogwash, you say, the ban was in place only until the IPL. And didnt Yasir Arafat travel to India for the Champions League? And dont mention the fact that he got his passport stamped in the UK, because, as a Pakistani national and cricket player, he traveled to India and that's that. A pox on Modi's house!
Enter left, Ijaz Butt, Chairman of the PCB
LAHORE: Chairman, Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt said on Saturday that revival of cricket ties and playing cricket matches of 2011 World Cup in India solely depend on Pakistan Government's decision. "We will be following Government advice as far revival of bilateral cricket ties with India and playing matches of World Cup in India are concerned and PCB cannot take decision on its own to permit its team to visit India," he said at a news conference here Saturday. Also present on the occasion were Chief Operating Officer, Wasim Bari, newly appointed General Managers Media,Tariq Hakeem and Media Nadim Sarwar. Ijaz Butt said PCB is up-dating Government on cricket issues on regular basis and seeks its advice whenever it is needed and similar practice will be followed regarding Pak teams visit to India.
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