Afridi threatens to resign if all seven players in the scandal are not kicked out.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s captain in the One Day Internationals and Twenty20, Shahid Khan Afridi, is likely to resign from his post as protest against a group of players in the team.

Shahid Afridi might not lead Pakistan in England ODIs, T20Is

Sources told The

Sports Encounter on Sunday that Shahid Afridi is disappointed on the situation emerged after seven of the Pakistani players playing in the Lord’s Test were accused of match fixing and spot fixing.

Sources said that Afridi had already told the team manager Yawar Saeed about this group of players having contacts with two suspicious persons, Mazhar Majeed and Azhar Majeed.

Afridi wary of a group of match fixers in the team

It is important to mention here that Mazhar Majeed as arrested by the Scotland Yard on Saturday and he disclosed in Police interrogation that a group of players in Pakistan cricket is involved in spot fixing and match fixing.

Afridi had complained about this group of players to the team manager during the ICC World Twenty20 and suspected that some players committed the crime of spot fixing.

Shahid Khan Afridi

Sources further stated that Yawar Saeed paid no heed to Afridi’s concerns and in the end Pakistan was defeated by Australia in the semi-final in quite dubious fashion.

As per sources, Afridi doesn’t want to keep this group of players in the team as Pakistan are due to take on England in five one Day International and two Twenty20 Internationals, starting from September 5, 2010.

If his concerns were not attended by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) authorities, Afridi would tender his resignation from captaincy of both ODIs and T20 teams, the sources concluded.