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Why take Afridi back?

Letter November 05, 2011
Pakistan Cricket Board should have permanently banned Shahid Afridi after his childish antic of biting a cricket ball

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board should have permanently banned Shahid Afridi after his childish antic of biting a cricket ball and his on-off retirement tantrums. By taking him back, what kind of message is the board sending to players? Throw all the tantrums you want, retire as many times as you want and we will always take you back? And then the board complains of ‘player power’.

Nauman Rasheed

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2011.