After ban, Yousuf contemplating retirement from international cricket

By Rahul Bajaj
for Cricketain.com

Published: March 11, 2010

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Islamabad: Former Pakistan skipper, Mohammad Yousuf, is contemplating retirement from international cricket after the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Wednesday that he and Younis Khan have been “indefinitely” suspended from the team.

Yousuf’s close friends said that he was ‘distraught’ and almost speechless when he came to know about PCB’s decision. ”Yousuf is contemplating retirement with immediate effect, but we are trying to talk him out of it. At the moment, he is very confused with this situation and hopefully things may improve and become clearer soon,” PakPassion.net quoted one of Yousuf’s close friends as saying.

According to him, Yousuf was particularly upset over the treatment meted out to him by the PCB, as he came to know about the ban imposed on him only through media.

“All he wants to know is what he has done wrong. He has had no official correspondence from the Board or even a telephone call to explain where he has erred and has just heard about the punishment in the media. This is not the way to treat a Pakistani cricketing legend and someone who has served his country with dignity over the years,” he said.

Yousuf, who has played 88 Tests and scored 7,431 runs at a very impressive career average of 53, is Pakistan’s third-highest Test run-scorer ever, besides being considered one of the classiest batsmen to have ever played for Pakistan. He stepped up to lead Pakistan recently for the tour of New Zealand during a time when Pakistan cricket was going through one of its worst phases. He was the skipper of the test team that travelled to Australia and was severely criticised for the team’s defeat in the second Test at Sydney.

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