Former PCB chief Ramiz Raja made an explosive comment about Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. Referring to Justice Qayyum’s report on match-fixing, Raja acknowledged that tainted cricketers shouldn’t be allowed to return to the system.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 31, 2022 11:25 IST
Ramiz Raja makes explosive comment about Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis (AFP Photo)
By India Today Web Desk: Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja made an explosive comment about his former teammates Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, saying that people whose names had been related to match-fixing ought to by no means have been reinstated within the system.
Raza stated that if he was the decision-maker, he would have banned Wasim and Waqar endlessly for his or her involvement in match-fixing. Ramiz additional claimed that when Akram and Younis had been reintroduced into the system, he had no alternative however to cooperate with them as a result of he had no different choices.
Raja’s comment was on Justice Qayyum’s report on match-fixing, which included the names of Akram and Younis. Waqar served because the crew’s head coach twice, whereas Akram was fined and relieved of his captaincy however continued to play cricket for Pakistan.
“I think no one should have had the chance of coming back to Pakistan cricket. If Wasim Akram’s name is in there, and he was censored for not cooperating, right? It was a borderline case. If I was the decision maker at the time, I would’ve banned them forever,” Raza stated in an interview with Samaa TV.
“You brought them back to system. I wasn’t in power at the time. We were told to play with them and work with them, and that was it. No one knew how to tackle that. So many people were involved in that. I don’t know what the compulsion was.”
“Whoever is tainted, I’ve zero tolerance on it,” Ramiz stated when he was requested in regards to the banned trio of former captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif.
The trio was banned in 2010 for his or her involvement in spot fixing, and after serving his sentence, Amir returned to Pakistan in 2016, however was not thought-about for choice throughout Raja’s tenure as PCB chairman. “I’m absolutely clear. People say they’ve had their punishment; move on. But I’ve experienced such situations,” Ramiz added.
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Dec 31, 2022
