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Pakistan cricket board brushes aside players’ demands

NZPA-ReuterLahore, Pakis- ■' ■" \. •' tan The Pakistan Cricket Control Board (8.C.C.P.) has brushed aside the demands of 10 of its top test players and decided to keep Javed Miandad as captain, said the president of the board Nur Khan, in Lahore yesterday. He announced the decision after an emergency meeting of the B.C.C.P. general council which he said discussed fully the crisis in the Pakistan team, created by the refusal of the 10 to play under Miandad’s captaincy. The council decided unanimously that the demands of the rebellious players were unacceptable and Miandad would, continue as captain for next month’s series against Sri Lanka and the tour to England later this year, Mr Khan told reporters.

He said that the council would give the 10 players until tomorrow to decide whether they were still available for the Pakistan team. The selectors meet that day in Rawalpindi to select the side for the test against Sri Lanka, at Karachi, beginning on Friday. The trouble erupted last Tuesday when nine players announced that they would not play under Miandad after allegations that some of them did not co-operate with him during the recent tour of Australia where the team led by him lost the series.

They accused Miandad of instigating the allegations made by the B.C.C.P chief at a news conference.

The nine, later joined by the wicket-keeper, Wasim Bari,.are Majid khan, Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Wasim Raja, Sarfraz Nawaz, Iqbal Qasim, Mudassir Nazar, Mohsin Khan and Sikandar Bakht.

Mr Khan met them on Friday and newspaper reports later quoted them as saying they would not budge from their demand that Miandad be removed.

Their reaction to the board’s dismissal of their demands was not immediately known but Mr Khan said yesterday four of them had told B.C.C.P.’s secretary, . Arif Abbasi, that they ' wanted to return to the I game. ’

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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 34

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313

Pakistan cricket board brushes aside players’ demands Press, 2 March 1982, Page 34

Pakistan cricket board brushes aside players’ demands Press, 2 March 1982, Page 34

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