Younis Khan and Mohammad Yusuf have been banned from playing for Pakistan for life in an extraordinary move by the country’s cricket chiefs.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) ordered a six-man committee to conduct an investigation into Pakistan’s disastrous tour Down Under earlier this year, where they suffered a hat-trick of whitewashes in the Test, ODI and Twenty20 series.
And following the findings of the committee the PCB have handed out an unprecedented set of punishments.
Former captains Yusuf and Younis, the two most senior players in the squad have been banned indefinitely from representing Pakistan in all formats.
Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan have been banned for a year and the Akmal brothers and Shahid Afridi will be put on probation for six months and have been fined up to dhs130,000 for various misdemeanours.
Kamran and Umar Akmal were fined for their part in the run-up to the final Test in Hobart, when wicketkeeper Kamran repeatedly and publicly insisted he would be picked despite a PCB release stating the opposite, and brother Umar allegedly feigned injury and threatened to not play.
Afridi has been reprimanded for biting the ball during the ODI clash with Australia in Perth.
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