Cricket: Pakistan replace Wasim with Salim A REVOLT by Pakistan players succeeded yesterday when Wasim Akram was
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Ten rebels had refused to tour under Wasim, because they wanted the selectors to restore Javed Miandad and two other Test players - Ramiz Raja and Aqib Javed - who had been dropped.
But the rebel players' spokesman, Waqar Younis, said he was happy with the decision after a committee, set up to replace the recently sacked Pakistan Cricket Board, defused the revolt by appointing Salim.
Waqar, who has now lost the tour vice-captaincy to the all-rounder, Asif Mujtaba, said: 'Our main aim was to change the captain and not force the ad hoc committee to include the three dropped players.'
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