The Express Tribune has received the document containing the names of the cricketers and their respective categories that was sent by Rasheed to Latif, who approved it.
According to the list, the A category players were Misbahul Haq, Younus Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi and Junaid Khan. Meanwhile, in the new contracts designed by current chief selector Moin Khan, Zakir Khan and Mohammad Akram, Younus has been demoted to B category. “The PCB’s treatment of Younus will discourage players to take Test and first-class cricket seriously,” said Latif. “They will only concentrate on one-dayers and T20Is, which will be disastrous.”
Additionally, the B category had only Umar Gul and Ahmed Shahzad, whereas the new one comprises Younus, Shehzad, Umar Akmal and Gul.
Similarly, the C category players approved by Latif were Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal, Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Bilawal Bhatti, Azhar Ali, Sharjeel Khan, Adnan Akmal, Zulfiqar Babar, Khurram Manzoor, Mohammad Talha, Abdur Rehman, Nasir Jamshed and Anwar Ali.
There was no D category or stipends in the previous understanding, and only 22 players were to be awarded contracts, but the new contracts see the numbers soar to 31 with the D category as well.
“Younus has won a lot of Test matches by doing well in fourth innings, which is very difficult. I failed to understand why the PCB demoted him when it was clearly agreed with Rasheed that he will be in A category,” concluded Latif.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2014.
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i was surprised he even got a contract and shahid afridi who has retired more times than he has won man of the match awards.
Rashid Latif should not be allowed to comment on anything related to cricket. He has been the biggest disappointment this year. His comments and critique hold no value since he backed out of the job of national coach for the Pakistani team. Reasons and pre conditions dont matter when you re being handed such a huge responsibility. All talk and no action makes Rashid Latif a lucy boy!
I think it's about time we should make PCB an independent institution free from political influences. I just cannot understand the rationale behind making Mr Sethi the chairman of PCB. What qualification or experience does he have to run an organisation as big as PCB???
Rashid Latif is a fair gentleman, his analysis are fair. Cannot understand Ex-players who have not performed for Pakistan well in the past, men’s like Moin Khan who is a "Yes Sir" to everything and does not use his brains neither is a fair character himself. Zakir Khan who played only 2 Test matches and is not a great cricket admirer nor will ever be one and Mohd Akram who is a failure bowling coach with present day cricket, are given the opportunity to make the contracts. Until and unless we have a Puppet Administrator as Chairman of PCB there will never be a fair selections in PCB. Younus is a great Asset to Pakistan Cricket and truely deserves to be in "A" Catogery.