Shafiq

Doubts cast over Pakistan dropped catch

AAP - October 5, 2009, 2:43 pm
Pakistan captain Younus Khan's dropped catch at a crucial point in Saturday's Champions Trophy cricket match against New Zealand has roused suspicions of corrupt play.
While strenuously denying deliberately dropping the ball, Younus conceded that the dropped catch cost his team the Champions Trophy semi-final match in Johannesburg on Saturday.
But the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit will be having a good look at the match, according to the Ahmedabad Mirror. However the newspaper noted: "It would be jumping the gun at this stage to suggest a hanky panky semi-final."
The match was evenly poised when Younus dropped Grant Elliott in the covers off teenage fast bowler Mohammad Aamer in the 40th over, with the New Zealand batsman then on 42 in his team's total of 4-165.
New Zealand needed 69 to win at that stage with six wickets in hand, but Elliott steered his team home with a crucial 104-run stand for the fifth wicket with skipper Daniel Vettori (41).
"The officials are guarded in their reactions at this stage, but indeed, the tapes of the Pakistan-New Zealand semi-final match are on their way to the anti-corruption unit," the newspaper reported.
Younus "shockingly" gave priority to the safety of an injured finger to making the catch, it said.
The Pakistan captain showed an after-match press conference the bandaged little finger of his right hand, and said the reason he missed the catch was because he was trying to protect a fractured finger.
"When I ran Gautam Gambhir out with the same hand, people clapped and said `what a patriot, playing for the country with a broken finger'," he said.
"Now, the same people will call me names, they will suggest I was up to something. I am not worried about anything."

fkhan2

The paper should encourage ICC to start an inquiry against Gibbs as well for dropping Waugh's catch at the 1999 WC semi final.

BS reporting from BS paper!!

Lucid Chaotic

stupid baseless accusations - the catch was a sitter but he had an injured finger - let's leave it at that.

hanibal

^^ Having said that, It was not only that catch, Afridi dropped and important catch in the game against Australia, but Mohd Asif, did managed to ball some good length and finally awarded with two quick wickets....

So the point is the lousy bowling display by Omer Gul and Rana Naveed.. thats when we lost the match...

Decent 6Chora

BS

a1kashur

Ahmadabad Mirror. Give me a break.

ehsan

Waht a load of absolute rubbish.

cadet018

Decent 6Chora

must be

<some crappy Newspaper/TV> , <some city>, India

Punjabee in USA

RAW/Mossad/CIA/Shiv Sena/Bajrang Dal etc.

Decent 6Chora

u never know after all people like Bhrat Verma etc do work for news papers

ehsan

Guess who cries about ISI even if the PM gets constipated?

Punjabee in USA

^ Probably Gilani's wife

HomiD

The ICC Anti-Coruption unit should investigate with the umpires about their biased umpiring in the semi-final rather than scrutinizing Younis Khan. He said at the toss of the semi-final I am not fit and all the boys know that and they want me to play. And I agree, Rana Naveed & Umar Gul being the two experienced bowlers should've bowled better and less no-balls. Plus the batting let us down again. All-in-all, we lost cuz of small total, biased umpiring (Helped in the small total) and bad bowling (biased umpiring again helped NZ not lose more wickets).

Captain1

They should also investigate all run-outs, all bowleds, all LBWs too of all the matches played thus far. Bunch of scumbags.

GenSec

bs news from a bs overly dramatic country

Arleitter

Why are you forgetting Afghan Intelligence, BLA and TET?

Arleitter

Guess who is having constipation these days after news from Isloo ,Pindi and SWAT valley?

zobia

dont tell me you like seeing innocent people dying. dont bring tragedies in game section. and we all know how awful indian media treats even their own players.