March 26th, 2010
Lahore, Mar.25 (ANI): Former Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram has backed all-rounder Shahid Afridi’s appointment as the skipper of the national side for the upcoming ICC T20 World Championship, saying “there is a value for nuisance in Pakistan cricket.”
Akram said Afridi may have earned a bad name for himself and the country following the shocking ball-chomping incident in Australia, but he is the best man to lead the team in the current scenario.
“He (Afridi) has a lot of energy and this format of the game, needs his aggressive approach. Surely, he will now be thinking about the World Cup because the nation’s prestige will be in his hands. He just has to control his wildfire emotions,” The Daily Times quoted Akram, as saying.
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November 11th, 2009
English legend Ian Botham lashed out at the cricket administrators for shoving more and more Twenty20 [ Images ] down the fans’ throat and said the slam-bang format, which is ‘bastardising the game’, has no place in international cricket.
Botham lambasted the “greed” of the administrators and questioned the logic behind having back-to-back Twenty20 World Cup.
“They are playing too much Twenty20 right now. We have just had a Twenty20 World Cup and within a year we’re going to have another in the Caribbean. It is greed, greed, greed. That is what will kill the game, the greed of the authorities,” Botham said in an interview to be published in the December issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine.
“Twenty20 has its place but not on the international stage. It is a domestic and franchise sport. I don’t want to see the best players in the world standing there and slogging. Twenty 20 is bastardising the game,” said Botham.
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