Cricket World Cup: Pakistan chief selector Moin Khan ‘spotted in casino before West Indies defeat’

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  Islamabad: Pakistani cricket chiefs have launched an investigation into reports that chief selector Moin Khan visited a casino shortly before the team’s calamitous World Cup defeat to the West Indies.
  
  Fans, already in despair at Pakistan’s dismal start to the tournament, have reacted furiously over claims Khan was seen in a casino in the New Zealand city of Christchurch ahead of Saturday’s crushing 150-run defeat to the Windies.
  
  “We have launched an investigation over the reports that Moin Khan visited a casino, action will be taken if the reports prove true,” Shehryar Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told reporters.
  
  “As per initial reports, Moin Khan went there to have a meal two days before the match against West Indies and a Pakistani couple photographed him and made a video,” Khan said.
  
  
  
  “But we will not make anybody a scapegoat and will investigate this incident before taking any action.”
  
  Pakistan team manager Naveed Cheema confirmed that an inquiry has been launched.
  
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  “Yes, the PCB chairman has asked me to investigate the affair,” Cheema told AFP in Australia without going into details or what action will be taken against Moin.
  
  It’s likely that Moin, whose presence at the World Cup was criticised by a number of former players, will be sent home if the charges against him are proved.
  
  Pakistan crumbled to 160 all out chasing the West Indies’ 310-6 in Christchurch on Saturday, losing their first four batsmen for just one run, to add to the anguish of their opening defeat to arch-rivals India.
  
  Fans in the central Pakistani city of Multan held a mock funeral for the national team after the defeat, which left them rooted to the bottom of Pool B.
  
  The ever-mercurial Pakistanis will hope to kickstart their tournament when they take on Zimbabwe in Brisbane on March 1.
  
  Moin was a member of Pakistan’s only World Cup winning team when the tournament was last played in Australia and New Zealand 23 years ago. He also skippered Pakistan between 1998-2001.
  
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[syedali73]

Probably Pakistan would have lost with even greater margin had he had no spared the team from his 'management'.

 

[Al Bhatti]

If the people in the parliament also do so, why not him? what is so special of him? Only thing is others are successful in hiding it.

 

[zip]

Is there any guideline not to go for casino when you are off the duty ? If so then its wrong

 

[he-man]

Whats the problem in going to a casino and having a meal??
He is a selector and not a player or coach.

 

[syedali73]

Whats the problem in going to a casino and having a meal??
He is a selector and not a player or coach.

He went as a team manager for selectors do not go with the players.

PCB probing Moin's casino visit: Shahryar Khan - Sport - DAWN.COM

 

[he-man]

He went as a team manager for selectors do not go with the players.

PCB probing Moin's casino visit: Shahryar Khan - Sport - DAWN.COM

Still,he was not part of coaching team.

 

[syedali73]

Still,he was not part of coaching team.

Please get yourself little educated on the role of team manager. They say a team without a manager is like a boat without a rudder.

Following is a CRICKET TEAM MANAGER JOB STATEMENT from West Indies Cricket Board:

 

[Force-India]

Still,he was not part of coaching team.

You don't go around casinos when team is struggling and he is not on vacations lol

 

[he-man]

You don't go around casinos when team is struggling and he is not on vacations lol

Thats what u think,apparently he had different views

 

[third eye]

You don't go around casinos when team is struggling and he is not on vacations lol

Whats the problem ?

As a selector he has done his job, if his team has a match the next day what is his role & what is expected of him.

Is he expected to pray for victory in his room or what ?

 

[Asian.Century]

video :

 

[xyxmt]

If the people in the parliament also do so, why not him? what is so special of him? Only thing is others are successful in hiding it.

more like if players do it, people who watch cricket do it, why not him
Like going to a casino is bigger haram than everything being done by common people in Pakistan.

 

[K-Xeroid]

He knows that Pakistan team is most least capable team in this world cup, why not to enjoy his limited days in Australia instead of wasting his time on fcked up Misbah Eleven.

 

[Kambojaric]

PCB has asked Khan to return to Pakistan. Lol paid vacation is over.

PCB asks Moin Khan to return home | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo