Paki team accused of losing to keep India out
Karachi, Pakistan: Pakistan’s parliamentary committee on sports has accused the cricket team of throwing away its Pool A match against Australia to knock old rivals India out of the eight-nation event.
The accusation came from Jamshed Dasti, the chief of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Sports. Dasti, a member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has summoned Pakistan captain Younis Khan, coach Intikhab Alam for a meeting at the Parliament House in Islamabad Oct 13. Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, has also been asked to attend the meeting.
Dasti said the committee is also suspicious about Pakistan’s semifinal loss to New Zealand, saying that the match could also have been fixed.
“We will be meeting them on October 13 as we feel the team appeared to have lost the matches deliberately against Australia and New Zealand,” said the outspoken Dasti.
Pakistan lost to Australia on the last ball of a low-scoring encounter-- a result that knocked India out of the Champions Trophy. The Pakistanis went on to suffer a shock defeat against a weakened New Zealand side that was without a number of key players because of injuries.
“Our team lost to Australia just to keep India out of the tournament,” Dasti said. “There are many doubts on the performance of the team and we feel it has to be cleared by the PCB officials and the team management,” Dasti said in an interview.
“The way we lost in the semifinal, it has left the whole nation disappointed and the PCB has to give answers.”
Pakistan’s cricket chiefs and the national team have come under constant criticism from parliamentary committees in the past but so far nothing has happened on the recommendations of those committees.
Earlier this year, Senate’s standing committee on sports recommended for the removal of Butt as PCB chief and asked the government to appoint a competent person for the job. However, that advise went unheeded by the Board’s chief patron - President Asif Ali Zardari.
However, Dasti made it clear that this time their recommendations will get due consideration. “This time I can assure you that we will make sure that our recommendations be given due considerations,” he said.
Meanwhile, Board sources have ruled out any foul play from players in the Champions Trophy.
According to the sources, top PCB officials are instead blaming poor umpiring for the team’s defeat against New Zealand. Some crucial decisions did go against Pakistan in the match and the team management and some Board officials believe it was the reason behind Pakistan’s defeat in the semifinals.
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* How far can this be true?!!
Formula ONE to Wrestling......play sports for FUN and Not for BIG business....killing the spirit of all sports.
ever since the whole match-fixing concept came out in the open years ago,i have looked at every match with a certain amount of suspicion....we never know what has happened behind closed doors in the pavilion...and we viewers,like floundering ignorant idiots,sit and cheer and pray for hours until the end of the match for our favorite team to win :-/ while the decision has already been made before the players even got out on the ground!
cricket is not entertainment....like watching a movie!it's a game and shud be played fair.cheating like this sure takes the charm away from it.... :S
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
....& it surprised me when Australia won with NewZealand even after such a worst situation in the begining.
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so just forget it. Hope for the world cup.
These Politicians know nothing about sports...they think all are corrupt like them. No team can lose a match deliberately on the last ball of the match....it could've gone either way.
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Actually it looked like tht the Pakis lost to New Zealand on purpose , but i doubt tht the match against Australia was lost purposefully.
i was shocked when New Zealand won in the semis.
with such allegations.....not in good taste!
The Pakistani team were actually Israeli Mossad spies in disguise and as everyone knows Israeli's are rubbish at cricket...
doesn't surprise me, Paki Team has always been dodgy!!
Pakistan were making 2, 3 runs per over with 6 wickets in hand in the batting powerplay taken in the last 5 overs of the innings, so people got suspicious. It doesn't take much to start such rumours after that.
I still can't make out if the PCB are trying to favour pak team by advertising that they lost purposely OR actually think that the match was fixed.
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"Before God we are all equally wise ' and equally foolish" - Albert Einstein
That's sports in the 21st century. That's how it is. Are you really surprised?