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Former Pakistani fast bowler Rana Navd-ul-Hasan revealed that some of the team’s players had a deliberate performance in the ODI series against New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates in 2009. According to a report in Cricket Pakistan, Rana told a Pakistani news channel that the players did not do their best on the field as they were not comfortable playing under then-captain Younis Khan.
“We lost two ODI matches against New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates during 2009 because some of the players involved deliberately did not play well, and I was left out of that tour,” Naved said.
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He further explained that he abandoned the tour because he had already told Younis Khan that there is a “conspiracy” against him. “I did not play because I had told Younis Khan that this was the conspiracy against you and that I am also part of that plot,” he said.
Naved added that Younis had changed after he was assigned the role of captaincy, and there were some high-ranking members of the team who involved him in the matter to further his goals. “This was not a rebellion against Younis Khan. He was a good cricket player and I played alongside him so there were no problems except that when he became captain he became a different person, “he said.
“Some older people, and I won’t name names, as they may have had aspirations of being captains, also involved us in this whole matter to further their goals.” We were about seven or eight people involved in this, “he added.
Naved further added that there were some great Pakistani cricket names that were involved in the whole scheme. “We were all called to a room and an oath of loyalty was taken and the people in that room were some of the biggest names in Pakistani cricket. If I mention those names, they will be mad at me, ”he said.
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“They said that we do not want to be removed, but we would like the PCB president to reason with Younis Khan, since he does not take the advice of the elders as captain and does what he likes to do,” he added.
“I agreed with this thinking that if this is the only issue and the PCB president tells you that, then I have no problem with this,” he said.
Pakistan suffered a 2-1 loss in the three-game ODI series, despite winning the first game by 138 runs. They lost the second game by 64 runs and then suffered a 7-run loss in the third ODI.
