Younus Khan, the sacked former Pakistan cricket team captain has decided to meet with chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to clear things creating confusions among the board and him.
Sources told The Sports Encounter on Monday that this is for the first time that Younus has showed his willingness to meet with any PCB official after the lifting of the infinite ban in June.
Younus has finally decided to clear the things and resolve the matters so as to save his already darkened career from further destruction.
Younus who in the recent days was giving a strong message to the board that he is fit and perfect for the game was continuously being ignored by the selectors after the indefinite ban removal.
Sources have said that Younus’s no coordination with the board along with no contact after the ban removal might be the basic reason behind his non selection.
It is due to this reason that PCB has ordered in a stiff way that Younus should contact the board within a week otherwise legal proceedings would be carried against the already grounded cricketer after the issuance of a show cause notice.
Authentic sources in the regulatory body of PCB have apprised The Sports Encounter that the senior
batsman, who is in Lahore for the national T20 championship has finally agreed to meet with the PCB Chairman, Ijaz Butt as a reply to the notice issued.
The sources said that Younus’s point of view was clear as he said that he is not at all egoistic neither he has any problem in meeting with the board officials adding that he is perfectly available for a week in Lahore.
Sources have further revealed that stiffness and no elasticity is being shown from the board side as the chairman PCB was of the view that performance can be ignored, what important is to meet with him and resolve the matters regarding the ban imposition.
It must be remembered that Younus Khan was among the seven players who were either banned or fined after returning from the Australian tour in March but an appellate tribunal later removed the bans and also reduced the fines.
Younus along with Mohammad Yousuf were the individuals who faced hard decisions in the form of indefinite ban from the team in March.
Five other players – Shoaib Malik, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal – were also either banned or heavily fined.
But later on the judgments and orders of the appellate tribunals, the bans were removed and fines were reduced to half. All the players except Younus had apologised to the board and accepted their mistakes, clearing the way for their return.
The appellate tribunal hearing the ban matter was of the view that the board had acted hastily in imposing ban on Younus as proper deliberations should be done mentioning that the board has the authority to start fresh proceedings from the beginning by issuing a show cause notice to Younus Khan if it feels that the former captain is in violation of any code of conduct.
At the same time the tribunal also reminded that the PCB board Chairman has the authority to forgive any player thus reduce or remove his suspension or any other punishment.
Ahmed Qayyum, Younis’ lawyer commenting on the current scenario said that he and his client are waiting for the showcause notice to be served but at the same time now his client wants immediate solution to the matter adding that for this purpose he is ready to meet anyone.
Important aspect is that Younus previously took a stand on the fact that he cannot apologise on any thing that he hasn’t done in addition to the proposal that he is ready to clear his name from the false charges being imposed on him.
