Pakistan ban Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf for life from national team

By Simon Briggs 605PM GMT 10 March 2010

Barred Mohammad Yousuf (right) criminialized after examination in to indiscipline Photo AFP

The expulsion of Pakistans dual majority appropriate players comes in the arise of their inauspicious debate of Australia, that saw them lose all 3 Tests and all five one-day internationals. An exploration was set up by the inhabitant board, and on Wednesday it emerged with the harshest set of punishments imaginable.

On tip of the unfixed bans for Yousuf and Younis, there were additionally one-year bans for Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, and complicated fines for Shahid Afridi - whose leather-chewing piece in Adelaide was certainly the majority obvious e.g. of ball-tampering ever seen - and both Akmal brothers, Kamal and Umar.

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In the light of Pakistans argumentative history, these measures are firm to encourage guess and rumour. But the explanations since by the house done no discuss of corruption. Instead they indicted the dual comparison players - Yousuf and Younis - of "infighting that resulted in bringing down the total team".

The winnow will have worrying implications for English cricket, as Pakistan are due to fool around 6 Tests around the nation this entrance summer 4 opposite England and dual opposite Australia.

The Pakistan Cricket Board competence feel that the bad perspective of the comparison players "has a trickledown outcome that is a bad change for the total team". But it seems doubtful that Pakistans opening will be softened by the loss of 4 comparison players, together with their dual highest-ranked batsmen in Younis and Yousuf. The odds is that they competence yield even some-more abjectly than they did in Australia.

The thought of banning players for underperforming on debate is alarming.

Just suppose what competence have happened to Steve Harmison after the 2006-07 Ashes. But at slightest the PCB pulled behind last night from the thought that Younis and Yousuf would never fool around for their nation again.

Six hours after their strange statement, they expelled a construction saying that "the letter of reference of the Committee is not a hold up anathema on these cricketers … As and when the PCB deems appropriate, these players will be deliberate for preference for the inhabitant team."

Elite referee Daryl Harper will take no piece in the ICC World Twenty20 after an International Cricket Council row resolved his "general performances" did not effect selection.

The ICC yet insisted in a matter that Harper"s deficiency is not a effect of the Australian"s piece in the preference examination complement debate that raid this year"s Johannesburg Test in between England and South Africa.