PCB ISSUE SHOW CAUSE NOTICE & SUSPENDED HIS CENTRAL CONTRACT...

Islamabad, May 31 (PTI) The Pakistan Cricket Board today sent a show cause notice to former captain Shahid Afridi for announcing his "retirement" and making unsavoury remarks about the bopard officials.

The PCB has also suspended his central contract with immediate effect and has stopped all the pending payments on account of his central contract.

After being unceremoniously dumped from captaincy after the ODI series in Caribbean, Afridi today announced his retirement from all forms of the game as long as the current regime under Ijaz Butt are in power.

He was also peeved as Butt made a statement few days back about strong reasons behind Afridi''s removal from the hot seat.

In a media release issued by the PCB, it has been stated that the action is taken primarily based on couple of breaches that he has committed even after being one of the centrally contracted cricketer.

The PCB media release states that action was initiated on the basis of following breaches.

1. By announcing his retirement in the manner that he did, Shahid Afridi is in breach of Clause 2.1.4 of the Central Contract dealing with Covenants of the

Cricketer.

2. In passing disparaging remarks about the board and its officials Shahid Afridi is in breach of Clause 4.4 dealing witH..

PCB ASKS WAQAR YOUNIS TO RETURN TO PAKISTAN....

BELFAST / KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked coach Waqar Younis, who is currently in Ireland with the team, to return to Pakistan and explain his position over differences with former captain Shahid Afridi, Express 24/7 reported on Tuesday.

Sources have said that Younis’s wife is not well and the coach wished to travel to Australia to see her. The board has asked him to come to Pakistan first.

Team manager Intikhab Alam has sent an initial report on Afridi to the board.

All praise for the team

Younis praised Pakistan for a “wonderful job” after they shrugged off the cold to complete a 2-0 one-day international series away to Ireland at Stormont.

“This game could have been dodgy for us but everybody chipped in,” said the coach.

“Coming straight from the West Indies to such cold weather, it is never easy to change suddenly, with so little time, but the boys did a wonderful job and stuck to their task to the end of this last game,” Younis added.

“We are all looking forward to the rest which will do wonders for us, because we have had eight months on the road, then we will be ready to pick it up again against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and England.”

PAKISTAN WON IT WITH 2-0

Pakistan won the two matches series vs ireland with clean sweep ....Ireland batted first & made 238/8 in their 50 overs at belfast young Paul stirling made brilliant century he made 109 of 107 balls to make some sort of respectable target for Pakistan to chase....saeed ajmal shines again with his off spin bowling got 4 wickets for 35 runs... where as junaid khan got 2 wickets ....

Azhar ali had been given the cap of odi

pakistan loss hafeez on zero younis khan did his come back in strong manner with 64 runs ... & umar akmal play the role of finsiher  & made 60 not out of 48 balls to give pakistan the victory of 5 wickets over ireland...

Paul stirling awarded the man of the match...for his brilliant knock...

but Pakistan won the series with 2-0...