Afridi should be kicked out of national team: senators

[fawwaxs]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s parliament says Shahid Afridi should be banned from the national team for three to four international series after being found guilty of ball tampering.

Afridi was banned for two Twenty20 games for biting the ball during the final one-day international against Australia last month.

At a meeting of a parlimentary sports committee on Monday, Senator Tariq Azeem told Pakistan Cricket Board officials that Afridi had besmirched the country’s reputation and should be further punished.

“If he (Afridi) bites the ball like an apple there’s lots of problems behind it,” Senator Haroon Akhtar told PCB chairman Ijaz Butt during a meeting of Upper House committee on Sports.

“If you don’t take action this will happen again. The team lacks discipline and you got to rectify the problem.”

Afridi missed one Twenty20 international against Australia, and wil be out for the first encounter against England on Feb. 20 at Dubai.

However Butt told the committee that it cannot punish Afridi, in accordance with International Cricket Council standards.

“The ICC has told us clearly that you can’t punish a player twice for one offense,” Butt said.

“Their lawyer has also suggested us that if we handed more punishment to Afridi and he challenges it in court, it will run the PCB into trouble.”

However, Senator Tariq Azeem contended that selecting a player was the discretion of the PCB.

“The ICC can’t question you if you don’t pick him up in the national team,” Azeem said.

“You (Butt) should not compromise the integrity of the nation. No player is indispensable. We should tell the world that we are not cheaters and we know how to deal with indisciplined players.”

Meanwhile, Butt told the committee that the PCB is in for a windfall if it can organize two test series against India.

“If we play two series against India before 2012 we could earn $90 million,” Butt said.

However, Azeem strongly objected to any plans to play India, after Pakistan players were snubbed at the recent Indian Premier League auction.

“They humiliated us by not bidding for our players in the auction and we should not play against India,” Azeem said.
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[Atheist]

Real funny - Cricket in parliament - Dont these guys have anything else to discuss? Serious wastage of public money

 

[araz]

Real funny - Cricket in parliament - Dont these guys have anything else to discuss? Serious wastage of public money

This is the height of stupidity. He cannot be punished twice for a crime. He hasalready said sorry, why are people hell bent on punishing him more. If they are so intent on improving the countries image, they should do something about the President.
Araz

 

[Kinshuk]

wtf? Afridi is such a nice and agressive player..

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Its a shame you don't hear Australian parliment talking about cricket or british parliment talking about circket , becaue they have social issues to look for

Our stupid parliment sits in airconditioned house, and on people's time when they should be working to solve social issues or develop police system they are talking about circket arses

 

[RobbieS]

He is too much fun yaar. A great character on the field. The game would be drab without his passion, energy and his antics! Plus banning him would be too harsh.

 

[Imran Khan]

whatever afridi rise pakistani flag in whole world .politics what the hell they do for country nothing.i will say even we don't wanna select him we should say him good bye with respect and honor.

 

[Hyde]

he should not be kicked out but should have been awarded more penalty..... now ICC has banned him for T20s and according to ICC laws........ 2 punishments cannot be given for 1 incident so i think peoples in Pakistan should forgive his mistakes considering the poor performance of our team and just make the things clear to him never to repeat such mistakes again

 

[fawwaxs]

This isn't fair, the penalty has to make sense. PCB has also forfeited Shoaib Akhters 7 million from his match fee. This isn't fair at all.

 

[S.U.R.B.]

whatever the parliament say according to law & even icc. a person who has been punished once for a crime cant b punished again afridi have been punished once by icc of 2 match ban. so whatever parliament says is rubbish. it could not be a better joke that people who r way ahead in comiting crimes r suggesting to punish afridi.

It shows parliamentarians don't understand Cricket matters.5year ban means a retirement letter for Afridi.

 

[Luftwaffe]

I've a funny feeling all this sh.t is going is because of cricket board all of them should be kicked out..

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I think all the back stabbing that is going on in the dressing room is more painful all the way form team to upper management its quite sickening ...

 

[brahmastra]

Real funny - Cricket in parliament - Dont these guys have anything else to discuss? Serious wastage of public money

dude, even our porliament members are not worth.
remember,our one a$$hole even said on electronic media that we will call 'chappal' in parliament and ask for explanation, at the time when our cricket team was performing very bad.

 

[Super Falcon]

stupid parliment if they were sincere with pakistan they kicked out butt first than misbah and imran farhta bigger failures and what *** hole naazar is saying yousuf should be kicked offf he was given project by pcb to found openers for pakistan and he ran to dubai for coaching other teams our batting line already failure we bring out yousuf than only ALLAH save us after inzi we are 50 percent on our batting remember pakistan has to play this year alot test cricket in england where we need player like yousuf not asss hole nazar like man

 

[Hyde]

stupid parliment if they were sincere with pakistan they kicked out butt first than misbah and imran farhta bigger failures and what *** hole naazar is saying yousuf should be kicked offf he was given project by pcb to found openers for pakistan and he ran to dubai for coaching other teams our batting line already failure we bring out yousuf than only ALLAH save us after inzi we are 50 percent on our batting remember pakistan has to play this year alot test cricket in england where we need player like yousuf not asss hole nazar like man

u know frankly speaking Nazar is right this time

Both Yousuf and Malik should be sacked now after they declared open war between each other. Yousuf has a big mouth and that is now a fact and he needs to keep his mouth shut otherwise we will have to drop him even his performance is not like before