Even as the cricket fever was spreading over Lord’s in the first Test between Pakistan and Australia, a needless controversy was also being raked up.
There were unsubstantiated reports from certain quarters that former Pakistan captain, Shoaib Mallik, was dropped from the team because of disciplinary issues.
However, the Pakistan team manager, Yawar Saeed, and Mallik himself have denied that discipline had anything to do with his name missing from the line up. Mallik himself stated that he was trying his form and Pakistan decided to go with one of the younger talents in the squad in the interim.
Mallik has been the centre of controversy this year over his one year ban by the PCB over causing disharmony in the team, then his troubled divorce from first wife before he could marry India’s tennis player, Sania Mirza, occupied centrestage with the PCB finally relented on the ban and allowing him to make the squad.
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