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Pakistan sack chief as tension boils over
1 Sep 2009The Pakistan Cricket Board have sacked their chief operating officer Salim Altaf.
Altaf and PCB chairman Ijaz Butt have been at loggerheads with each other for some time and the decision to remove Altaf was made at a council meeting last month.
It is the latest setback for cricket in Pakistan after Aamir Sohail resigned as director of the National Cricket Academy, while legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir had quit as chief of the selection committee after citing interference as the reason.
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Asian cricket will only hurt as this kind of thing happens all around. Sri Lanka and India have the same. How the devil the players see past all this type of low down politial turmoil beats me. Cricket in Asia is rich business. hence the politico setup camp to reap the harvest. the minister of sport in SL seems like he has not held a bat nor a ball. But has the SLC as his yard staff!!!
- Pj, Sri Lanka, 01/09/2009 12:05
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