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✩ October 13th, 2009 ✩

Too Hot Headed To Lead

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Younis Khan has handed in his resignation after being quizzed by a parliamentary committee in regards to match fixing allegations which first appeared in an Indian newspaper. The newspaper was forced to take back the story after pressure from the ICC but various personalities in Pakistan, in particular National Assembly committee chairman Jamshed Dasti, jumped on the band wagon and began to question Younis and the teams performance.

Some newspaper was going to make such an allegation because India’s progression was dependent on Pakistan beating Australia. When this didn’t happen, the allegations that Pakistan deliberately lost to make sure India was knocked out, were bound to surface. Unfortunately, certain people in Pakistan were not clever enough to figure this out so decided to believe what they were reading and criticise their own team rather that question the newspaper report.

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