KARACHI: Notwithstanding with the pressure on him to reconsider retirement from T20 cricket, Pakistan captain Younis Khan has reiterated that he will not go back to his decision.
“I had decided before going to the World Cup I would retire no matter what the result. I don’t want to be in a situation where I am left out of the team,” Younis said on arrival at the Karachi airport.
Khan admitted that T20 is the toughest form of the game, “It’s not easy and I think I’m too old for this type of game. Commenting of the victory in the final”, he said, “We had entered the championship without having the pressure of being favourite.”
“ The favourite team has always have pressure but we played without taking up any pressure and even we didn’t have any kind of pressure in the final,” he maintained.
Younis said he was surprised at former chief selector Abdul Qadir’s statement that he would not have picked Younis or Shoaib Malik in his T20 team.
“It is his own opinion but his resignation and statement were badly timed. It had no effect on me but it did affect Malik who came to me and complained,” he said, adding that the statement only spurred him on to do better.
Lauding the efforts of star all-rounder Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal in bagging the coveted cup, Khan said, “Afridi was playing in the manner that some time I feel ‘Sir Don Bradman’ was on the crease as he contrary to his game, played and grew his innings patiently without throwing away his wicket and finish the game with victory note”.
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