Previous Pakistan chief Salman Butt has would not play in the forthcoming National T20 Championship subsequent to being informed that he has been downgraded to Central Punjab’s subsequent division group. The competition gets in progress on Wednesday, September 30 with the match between Northern (Pakistan) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Multan.
Butt couldn’t keep his quiet after Central Punjab lead trainer Shahid Anwar revealed to him that he should lead the division two group in the title as there’s no spot in the division one crew. Focal Punjab’s first match is against Southern Punjab on the first day of the season itself.
Salman Butt lashes out
“Salman Butt asked Shahid Anwar the rationale behind this, particularly when the main three batsmen of Central Punjab division one group, Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad and Babar Azam, were not accessible because of different reasons.
“Salman Butt additionally reminded Anwar that he had been the main three scorers of the public T20 competition for the last three seasons and his group had twice showed up in the last while once likewise winning it,” a source was cited as saying in Hindustan Times.
Umar, Shehzad and Babar won’t be an aspect of the competition. Akmal is presently serving a restriction from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) while Shehzad is recuperating from injury. Babar, then again, has been allowed to play for the Somerset in the continuous T20 Blast in England. He was as of late an aspect of the Test and T20I arrangement against the Three Lions.
A year ago, Shehzad, Babar, Umar and uncapped Imran Butt were the main run-getters for Central Punjab in homegrown cricket. On the backs of their astounding presentation, the group likewise figured out how to win the Quaid-e-Azam trophy.
Most definitely, he has been carrying out his specialty in homegrown cricket subsequent to getting back from suspension following his inclusion in the 2010 spot-fixing embarrassment. Not long ago, he additionally played for the Lahore Qalandars, drove by Sohail Akhtar, in the 2020 Pakistan Super League (PSL).
In his vocation, Salman Butt has 8,921, 8,886 and 2,349 runs in five star, List An and T20 cricket separately. He likewise brags of 49 centuries and 98 half-hundreds of years. He last played for Pakistan in the 2010 visit through England where his profession went into the dejection.
