Pak players concentrating more on religion than cricketer: Media manager

The Pakistan cricket team's media manager for the World Cup, Pervez Jamil Mir, has said the players were more focussed on prayers than cricket in the Caribbean islands.

Mir told a three-member World Cup Probe Committee appointed by the PCB that the players had made the religious affair a "public spectacle" instead of keeping it private.

"I told the committee that the players were not focussed on cricket in the World Cup. They were more into religion," the Daily Times quoted him as saying to a foreign news agency.

"I told the committee that Pakistani players, rather than pray privately, tried to make it a public spectacle," Mir added.

He went on to say that captain Inzamamul Haq led some players to pray in the galley of aircrafts rather than privately in their seats.

Meanwhile, a PCB spokesman said the committee had a long session with Mir over the team's first round exit from the Cup.

"The committee had an open session with Mir who offered his candid views on the team's poor show in the West Indies," he said.

The three-member committee is being headed by former Test player Ejaz Butt, with Salahuddin Ahmad and Salim Altaf as the two other members. (ANI)

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