Leaked video reveals player calling Shoaib Malik as negative influence
A video that was recorded during the investigative probe around why Pakistan lost all their games in Australia, has been leaked and found its way to a Pakistani TV channel. The video reveals the kind of discontentment that there was in the Pakistan team on the tour.
Shoaib Malik has been accused of being a negative influence and also by a committee member as a "termite". That is not all, as some of the former cricketers and those who played on that tour have accused him of anything between backbiting against players to politicking and causing rifts within the team.
The Pakistan board had earlier taken action against some of its players including Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan, Malik, Naved-ul-Hasan, Shahid Afridi and the Akmal brothers.
Former coach Intikhab Alam, who was a part of the management on that tour said, "Malik is a negative person and he creates problems. I wanted him to be sent back home. Intikhab also added that Malik had first agreed to bat up the order but at the last moment pulled away. Alam also said that looking at the green pitch in one of the Test matches, Malik decided to sit out of the game.
Mohammad Yousuf, who has had a long standing feud with Shoaib Malik has also said that Malik's appointment as the captain of the side in 2007 was a huge blunder. He said, "Former chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf made a big blunder and hurt Pakistan cricket when he appointed Malik captain in 2007 when his place in the side was also not confirmed,"
Even Shahid Afridi accused him of being a back-biter and is shown to be telling the committee that he told the former captain that he will not continue to play in the team if he continued to do what he was doing. He also said that that he had told Malik that if Afridi was made the captain, he will not have Malik in the side.
Intikhab also questioned the players' education levels and upbringing, their mental aptitude and has called them mentally retarded!
Naved-ul-Hasan Rana, who was one of the players banned for one year also speaks of how the players were not happy with Younis Khan appointment as the captain and was a part of the group that wanted him removed.
It is said that more videos will come out in the days to come.
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