Imran snub from trophy celebrations irks Rashid

Published September 21, 2014
Imran Khan with the 1992 World Cup trophy. — Photo by ESPNcricinfo/PA Photos
Imran Khan with the 1992 World Cup trophy. — Photo by ESPNcricinfo/PA Photos

KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has criticised the Pakistan cricket authorities for snubbing former captain Imran Khan while celebrating the arrival of the 2015 World Cup trophy in Pakistan.

“Pakistan won the only World Cup under Imran Khan, this is a fact and nobody can take this credit away from him,” said Rashid while talking to a leading TV channel here on Saturday. “Snubbing Imran from the event for whatever reason is unfortunate and in bad spirit.

“Skipper Misbah and former great Javed Miandad are respectable cricketers and were rightly chosen for the honour but nobody was more deserving than Imran to get invited to the celebrations of the trophy’s arrival in the country,” insisted Rashid.

“It will go down in history as a great discrimination, I am afraid,” Rashid concluded.

Published in Dawn, September 21st , 2014

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