The King met with the some of the Pakistan cricket team and staff (Image: Getty)
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A Pakistani cricket star has refused to attend the Pakistan Cricket Team’s compulsory meeting with King Charles III. Earlier this week, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) dropped seven players from their team and released their head coach after suffering back-to-back defeats to England in their ongoing Test series.
Pakistan’s dire opening two matches saw them lose the first at Headingley by an innings and the second at Lord’s by 194 runs, having been bowled out for less than 200 in each of their four innings. The PCB then completed a brutal overhaul of the squad and backroom staff for the third and final match of the series at Edgbaston on September 9, calling up five uncapped players in their place. Ahead of a pre-planned audience with the King, the decision was made to tell all the players, including those deemed surplus to requirements, that they had to attend the meeting at Clarence House.
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With several of the replacements yet to arrive in England, the PCB feared that attendance numbers would be embarrassingly low for such a high-profile engagement and insisted that even the axed players attend. The Telegraph reports that the players had expressed their preference not to due to the current situation.
Four of the exiles, Ali Usman, Aamir Jamal, Khurram Shahzad and Muhammad Awais Zafar attended the event. But a fifth unnamed player flat out refused in protest against his treatment. That all reportedly made for an awkward atmosphere.
Nevertheless, the meeting, which ran for roughly 15 minutes, is understood to have been positive and cordial. Touring cricket teams are usually invited for an audience with a member of the Royal family or the Prime Minister when they visit Britain to face England.
The King was presented with a signed cricket bat (Image: Getty)
The King spoke with the players and officials, encouraging the Pakistan side during what has been a difficult period on and off the field. Babar Azam, the captain, presented the King with a signed bat.
Meanwhile, Mohsin Naqvi, the PCB chairman and Pakistan’s minister of interior and narcotics control, also presented him with a gift.
In October, England will tour Pakistan for a one-day tri-series against the home side and Sri Lanka. It will be England’s fourth separate tour of Pakistan in the past four years following a 17-year gap between visits to the country because of security concerns.
The King met with the some of the Pakistan cricket team and staff (Image: Getty)
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A Pakistani cricket star has refused to attend the Pakistan Cricket Team’s compulsory meeting with King Charles III. Earlier this week, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) dropped seven players from their team and released their head coach after suffering back-to-back defeats to England in their ongoing Test series.
Pakistan’s dire opening two matches saw them lose the first at Headingley by an innings and the second at Lord’s by 194 runs, having been bowled out for less than 200 in each of their four innings. The PCB then completed a brutal overhaul of the squad and backroom staff for the third and final match of the series at Edgbaston on September 9, calling up five uncapped players in their place. Ahead of a pre-planned audience with the King, the decision was made to tell all the players, including those deemed surplus to requirements, that they had to attend the meeting at Clarence House.
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With several of the replacements yet to arrive in England, the PCB feared that attendance numbers would be embarrassingly low for such a high-profile engagement and insisted that even the axed players attend. The Telegraph reports that the players had expressed their preference not to due to the current situation.
Four of the exiles, Ali Usman, Aamir Jamal, Khurram Shahzad and Muhammad Awais Zafar attended the event. But a fifth unnamed player flat out refused in protest against his treatment. That all reportedly made for an awkward atmosphere.
Nevertheless, the meeting, which ran for roughly 15 minutes, is understood to have been positive and cordial. Touring cricket teams are usually invited for an audience with a member of the Royal family or the Prime Minister when they visit Britain to face England.
The King was presented with a signed cricket bat (Image: Getty)
The King spoke with the players and officials, encouraging the Pakistan side during what has been a difficult period on and off the field. Babar Azam, the captain, presented the King with a signed bat.
Meanwhile, Mohsin Naqvi, the PCB chairman and Pakistan’s minister of interior and narcotics control, also presented him with a gift.
In October, England will tour Pakistan for a one-day tri-series against the home side and Sri Lanka. It will be England’s fourth separate tour of Pakistan in the past four years following a 17-year gap between visits to the country because of security concerns.
The King met with the some of the Pakistan cricket team and staff (Image: Getty)
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A Pakistani cricket star has refused to attend the Pakistan Cricket Team’s compulsory meeting with King Charles III. Earlier this week, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) dropped seven players from their team and released their head coach after suffering back-to-back defeats to England in their ongoing Test series.
Pakistan’s dire opening two matches saw them lose the first at Headingley by an innings and the second at Lord’s by 194 runs, having been bowled out for less than 200 in each of their four innings. The PCB then completed a brutal overhaul of the squad and backroom staff for the third and final match of the series at Edgbaston on September 9, calling up five uncapped players in their place. Ahead of a pre-planned audience with the King, the decision was made to tell all the players, including those deemed surplus to requirements, that they had to attend the meeting at Clarence House.
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With several of the replacements yet to arrive in England, the PCB feared that attendance numbers would be embarrassingly low for such a high-profile engagement and insisted that even the axed players attend. The Telegraph reports that the players had expressed their preference not to due to the current situation.
Four of the exiles, Ali Usman, Aamir Jamal, Khurram Shahzad and Muhammad Awais Zafar attended the event. But a fifth unnamed player flat out refused in protest against his treatment. That all reportedly made for an awkward atmosphere.
Nevertheless, the meeting, which ran for roughly 15 minutes, is understood to have been positive and cordial. Touring cricket teams are usually invited for an audience with a member of the Royal family or the Prime Minister when they visit Britain to face England.
The King was presented with a signed cricket bat (Image: Getty)
The King spoke with the players and officials, encouraging the Pakistan side during what has been a difficult period on and off the field. Babar Azam, the captain, presented the King with a signed bat.
Meanwhile, Mohsin Naqvi, the PCB chairman and Pakistan’s minister of interior and narcotics control, also presented him with a gift.
In October, England will tour Pakistan for a one-day tri-series against the home side and Sri Lanka. It will be England’s fourth separate tour of Pakistan in the past four years following a 17-year gap between visits to the country because of security concerns.