PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt says he loves yogurt

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman, Ijaz Butt, has revealed he loves yogurt. Butt's revelation is most shocking for Pakistan cricket, as concerned parties are busy thinking about the 'bright" future of Pakistani players and no one is thinking about yogurt.

Ijaz Butt is no ordinary person and always manages to capture headlines.

Reporters bravely interviewed Ijaz Butt and went deep into the mind of one of the most intellectual individuals in cricket. On being asked about his favourite food, PCB’s top dog quickly replied “yogurt”.  

Butt further said “During the spot fixing scandal, I was upset and I was constantly asking myself, why did this happen? Around 3:00am while looking at a lizard on the ceiling, I decided to eat some yogurt. And, yogurt it was. I immediately went to the Anarkali Bazar (Market) and bought only 26 packets of fresh yogurt. After a few spoons of sweet yogurt, the heavens advised me that I should allow the angels to protect the tainted trio”.

What a wait it was from Mr. Butt, as when Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, and, Salman Butt were being spanked by Scotland Yard, Pakistan’s cricket Tsar was enhancing his thinking skills by eating fresh yogurt.  

A few spoonfuls later, Butt instantly came up with a perfect statement for the international media. “The boys did a bad thing”. It was indeed an intellectual comment by a cricketing chief, as it covered every aspect of the incident.

After the success of Butt’s comment, he has become a devoted member of Lahori yogurt and has even started a Facebook fan page with the name “Yogurt gives you wings” and “Yogurt...do the YO”.

Butt revealed that if he had not looked at the lizard in his office then he would not have thought of yogurt. He said that it looks as if nature was speaking to him in the form of a lizard that day. He is captivated by the taste of yogurt and has started eating the cool curdled milk before every board meeting and no meeting gets underway before a spoon of the fresh dairy product.

He even recommended to his family members and national players, to eat yogurt on a daily basis. So far, Kamran Akmal has followed his advice and eats one packet a day to improve his catching skills.

Akmal is also the only member of Butt’s Facebook fan page and constantly writes quotations and poems about different brands of yogurt.

Overall, Ijaz Butt is one individual, who considers yogurt as his good omen, and involves yogurt in all his activities, especially spot fixing, wicket keeping, and interviews.

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MIANDAD VISITS PAKISTAN CRICKET TEAM TRAINING CAMP

Former Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad visited the training camp of the Pakistan national team set up at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore to give batting tips to the players taking part in the session.

Recently, Miandad had turned down the request of the Pakistan Cricket Board to take up the position of the batting coach of the national side.

The two-day camp has been set up to prepare the players for the upcoming tour of West Indies. Head coach Waqar Younis was also seen giving the players instructions regarding their bowling during the session. The team is expected to have a full day of batting and bowling practice on Wednesday as well.

Pakistan are expected to leave for the Caribbean by 14 April, 2011. During the tour, the Men in Green will play a Twenty20 international, five One Day Internationals and two Test matches.

Miandad was offered the job of the batting coach after skipper Shahid Afridi identified batting as the weak link of the side. Pakistan lost to arch rivals India in the semi-final of the ICC World Cup 2011 by 29 runs, the blame of which was put on the batsmen.

The flamboyant Afridi favoured Miandad to take over the batting coach role upon his return to Pakistan. After Afridi’s request, the Pakistan Cricket Board officially contacted the legendary batsman to consider the offer.

According to sources, Miandad was not comfortable working under head coach Waqar Younis, who is his junior to him and therefore rejected the offer.

However, Miandad says once a player reaches the national team, he can no longer be taught a different batting technique. The prolific former batsman believes that he can be more useful coaching younger players in the cricket academy.

In an interview, he also revealed that he had bitter experiences with the PCB in the past when he was the coach of the national team. It is his belief that the management has never been serious about the future of the sport and that is the reason why Pakistan do not have quality backup players. Miandad has served the Pakistan team on three previous occasions, all of which ended on a bitter note.

Meanwhile, skipper Shahid Afridi has requested the PCB to consider someone else as the batting coach if Miandad is not willing. Let’s see if the board appoints someone for the role or not.

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