Butt rules out Shoaib’s return to international cricket

November 5th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief, Ijaz Butt, has said that his meeting with Indian counterparts was held in a positive atmosphere and expressed hope that cricketing ties between both countries would resume in 2010. Interacting with media persons soon after arriving at Lahore from New Delhi following an eight-day India visit, Butt said he is optimistic about a bilateral India-Pakistan series at a neutral venue next year.

September 28th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The Pakistan Cricket Board is planning to bid for the 2014 Twenty 20 World Cup, and the board chairman Ijaz Butt has already begun lobbying for it in South Africa where the ICC Champions Trophy is going on. "The next two Twenty20 World Cups have been already been allotted.

September 14th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ijaz Butt has said that he has had constructive talks with Emirates Cricket Board officials about holding a proposed ODI series against New Zealand there later this year. Butt, who is in London, said that he would officially announce the venues for the four One-day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches on Monday after returning home.

September 10th, 2009 KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hoping that the meeting between its chairman Ijaz Butt and England Cricket Board (ECB) chief Giles Clarke would yield some positive results for Pakistan cricket. The PCB expects the meeting, which is scheduled to be held later this week, to be fruitful with regard to resumption of international cricket in Pakistan.

September 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Aamir Sohail Thursday took another swipe at Ijaz Butt, saying the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman is misleading board's patron - Pakistan President Asif Zardari -- and is also hoodwinking the general masses regarding relocation of the 2011 World Cup matches out of the country. Aamir said he was amazed at PCB chairman's audacity to call people naive and suggesting that they are not aware of the ground realities.

August 31st, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's cricket chief Ijaz Butt was off the mark when he claimed last week that Pakistan will receive around Rs.1.5 billion ($18 million) from the International Cricket Council (ICC) after settling its 2011 World Cup dispute with the games governing body, sources said Monday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stands to gain about Rs.1 billion ($12 million) from its deal with the ICC that was struck in Dubai last week.

August 28th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) hopes to receive up to 18 million dollars from the International Cricket Council (ICC) over the stripping of hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup, its chairman Ijaz Butt said on Friday. "At the moment the figure is around rupees one billion (12 million dollars) but I hope it could go up to rupees 1.5 billion (18 million dollars) by the time World Cup begins in 2011," Butt told reporters in Lahore.

August 13th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may rope in former opener Saeed Anwar to put its house in order. Anwar met PCB chief Ijaz Butt on Wednesday, following which speculations are rife that the former southpaw may get a key position in the board.

August 12th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's cricket management has done little to ensure that international teams return to the country in the aftermath of this March's terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is yet to even prepare a comprehensive plan aimed at reviving international cricket in the country, it was reported by The News Wednesday.

August 12th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt Wednesday hit back at a media report suggesting he had failed to work out a strategy to persuade international teams to again play in the country. Denying a report in 'The News' which said that the PCB was not making concrete efforts for reviving international cricket in Pakistan, Butt said: "We do realise that at some stage we would need to have teams visiting Pakistan and as a step in this direction, we recently invited Zimbabwe U-19 team to Pakistan.

July 31st, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has ruled out any possibility of organizing its share of 2011 World Cup matches at neutral venues. "There's no such clause in the agreement among the four co-hosts, so it's not possible," PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said.

July 30th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan have given up the demand of hosting its quota of 2011 World Cup games at a neutral venue, the countrys cricket chief Ijaz Butt said Thursday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman told reporters that the agreements signed by all the four co-hosts doesnt allow the provision of any of the World Cup matches to be held outside the Indian sub-continent.

July 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Retired Indian cricket captain Soruav Ganguly Friday took pot shots at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), saying its rules were not the same for all cricketers. To a query whether he could have served the Indian team well had he continued to play at the top level like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly told the Begnali television channel Star Ananda: "Yes, I had the ability.

July 16th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt has said he will continue to fight for Pakistan's right to host the 2011 World Cup. Butt said he would meet International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan in Dubai later this month and discuss the issue of Pakistan being denied hosting rights of the quadrennial event.

July 11th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may take disciplinary action against controversial fast Shoaib Akhtar for his remarks on the board's decision to axe him from the World Twenty20 Championship team. The final decision in this regard would be taken by the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, The Daily Times reports.