Saleem Altaf Quotations

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

We really don't know at this stage how serious the injury is, but I doubt he will be available for the tour of Sri Lanka next month.

We had basically asked the BRG to review his action in three months time instead of keeping him out of the game, which is his livelihood, for a year.

Obviously he is very upset and disappointed but I have told him we will continue to support him and there is still quite a bit of cricket left in him.

But everything depends on how long it takes him to make a complete recovery.

He has gone to Australia to purely consult a knee specialist Dr. David Young, who has by the way, told us he'll be operating upon both knees on Tuesday to remove pieces of cartilage which are floating.

There is a law which clearly defines what is an illegal action and empowers umpires to no-ball such bowlers.

His other knee could also be affected and surgery is definitely an option.

Some houses will have one room completed; some will have two completed, but we expect almost 50 per cent of the people should have started active construction within April and the middle of May.

We are confident we can get the ban lifted or reduced on the basis of the improvement we have seen in his action now.

We will have to look into this and learn something from this experience with regards to our scheduling for future series. The accommodation just isn't adequate enough in these places.

But people have to follow our design for constructing quake-resistant houses to get the compensation money.

The selectors feel that these are the best possible players available for the coming series and most of them have performed well in the recent series against England.

According to Dr. Young, the knees are not in good shape at present and required immediate repair. The arthroscopic surgery will take place today and, at least, it will require another eight weeks before the rehabilitation process can start.

The Twenty20 Cup is fun cricket and basically fulfils our purpose of involving the public in domestic cricket.

Every tour leading up to the World Cup is important as we want to win everything so that the confidence level of the boys is sky high when they arrive in the West Indies. And to achieve that goal, we need to have the best players to accomplish the task. In this background, it is a body blow for us that our strike bowler will not be available for the Sri Lanka tour.

The consensus is that the surgery is inevitable and must not be delayed.

In less than 58 seconds, we lost everything that was built in 58 years and the expectation is to rebuild in 58 days.

In the new FTP India will now tour Pakistan in 2009 and 2113 while England will visit in 2010.

The initial medical report is that he has a stress fracture in his ankle that requires a rest period of at least six weeks but it could be longer.

And from what I understand, the BRG didn't accept our appeal on technical grounds, that it does not have discretionary powers to lift or reduce the ban under present rules.