“People were talking all sorts of stuff about me and Salman Butt. Therefore, I am reverting the decision and I have already spoken to Salman Butt and I have told him that he cannot be part of my team,” Riaz told reporters at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
It was only on Friday (December 1) that the PCB had appointned Butt, Kamran Akmal and Rao Iftikhar Anjum as consultant members to chief selector Wahab. The move was met with instant criticism from former officials, cricketers as well as the media, not least because of Butt’s involvement in the 2010 spot-fixing scandal, which eventually ended his international career. Amongst the many who saw the PCB move with shrunk eyes was Ramiz Raja, a former chairman of the board himself, who labelled the Butt appointment “insane” in an unequivocal rebuke of the board.
