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Yousuf's decision shocks former Test cricketers
Published: November 07, 2008- Digg
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Sohail urged the ICC to intervene. "Cricket is no more a gentleman's game which it used to be in the '60s and '70s," Sohail said. "Now the onus is on the ICC how it tackles with this storm of money which is luring players and will definitely affect Test and one-day cricket."
Last year, former PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf convinced Yousuf to cancel his ICL contract and play for Pakistan.
"The PCB even compensated him financially," Sohail said.
"But now he rejoined the ICL which clearly means that big sums of money are luring players."
Ex-Test leg-spinner Abdul Qadir said act firmly against Yousuf to set an example for other cricketers.
"Our cricket has been badly damaged with discipline problems, like players involvement in doping scandals," Qadir said, referring to fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif's positive drug tests over the last two years.
"We are already lacking in discipline and the PCB should now start taking strict actions.
"Whatever name Yousuf has earned in international cricket is because of Pakistan and he has let down millions of his supporters by joining the ICL," Qadir said.
The bearded Yousuf has played 79 Tests and 269 limited-overs internationals for Pakistan. Until converting from Christianity to Islam in 2005, he was known as Yousuf Youhana.
He has scored 6,770 runs at an average of 55.5 in Test cricket, and in one-dayers he has accumulated 9,242 runs at an average of 43 with a strike rate of 75 runs per 100 balls.
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