It is something rare in Pakistan but not so new in the PCB to resign in protest and this time it is Younis Khan, captain of Pakistan cricket team, which recently lost the Champions Trophy 2009 in South Africa. Attending a session at the National Assembly’s Standing committee on Sports, on Tuesday (October 13, 2009), Khan rejected the accusations of match-fixing and deliberately losing to other teams and tabled his resignation on spot in an emotional display of protest.

The accusations brought against the team’s captain included deliberately losing their last group match against Australia so as to put India out of the series as well as deliberately losing to New Zealand in the semis. Younis Khan strongly rejected these allegations and said that he could never do such a thing. He even could not think of it and has found it hard to face his family on account of these baseless allegations.

The dramatic scene was stretched as PCB chairman Ijaz Butt at once handed the resignation back to Younis Khan. Moved by the scene, the legislators also expressed their view that losing in the Champions Trophy was not the result of match-fixing. But Khan declared that he was a Pathan and would stand by his word. Younis expressed resentment of the biased way in media had presented the team’s performance in the past few months.