[1]Flamboyant Pakistan all rounder Shahid Afridi has announced to quit international cricket in protest of his removal from the captaincy of the national one-day team and said he will not consider to return till the present board under the chairmanship of Ijaz Butt is in place.
"The people have given me lot of respect and love and I don't want to waste that working with this board who don't know how to respect players," an angry Afridi said.
In a scathing attack on the Pakistan cricket Board, Afridi, 31, described the current set of administrators as 'disgraceful people'.
Afridi, who announced to quit international cricket to protest the board's decision of removing him as the captain of the one-day team, told Geo News channel that nothing is greater to him than his self-respect.
The experienced all rounder said till the present board under the chairmanship of Butt is in place, he will not play international cricket.
"I want to make it clear that till this board is there I will not play international cricket. When it goes and if people want me to play on I will consider a comeback."
However, Afridi said he will continue to play in domestic and league matches.
"I will continue to play domestic and league cricket but not international cricket... It is not worth my while under this board which gave me no reason nor did it bother to hear me out before sacking me as captain," he said.
"I don't want to work with such disgraceful people. I don't know on what grounds they sacked me as captain. I worked hard on building up a broken team and turned it into a fighting combination. We played in the World Cup semi-final and yet they sacked me without hearing me out."
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