Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram apologised on Monday, to doctors and the medical fraternity for calling private hospitals ‘slaughter houses.’
Akram issued a written apology to the medical fraternity after alleging that a doctor at a local hospital asked him for 150,000 dollars to treat his wife Huma Wasim.
The cricketer said he may have said things that maligned the medical fraternity while still traumatised by his wife’s death.
In a letter sent to National Hospital and Doctors’ Hospital in Lahore, Akram wrote, “I hold the medical community in high esteem and may not have been competent enough to comment on medical negligence.”
Akram insisted that the reason he requested for an inquiry was to ensure a fair and impartial probe and that he was ‘extremely grateful’ for the doctors’ support
Monday, April 12, 2010
Flintoff won't put date on comeback
Flintoff has been troubled by knee problems for years and retired from Test cricket after helping England win the Ashes against Australia last year.
But the all-rounder still hopes to play one-day matches for his country and had an operation on his left knee soon after the Ashes triumph in a bid to cure the latest problem.
However, initial hopes that he could be fit to play for Lancashire at the start of this season had to be revised following further surgery in January.
Now the 32-year-old hopes to be batting again in practice this month or early in May, while his updated timetable of recovery remains to play again for his county by the end of July, with a view to returning in limited-overs cricket for England in due course.
Speaking at Lancashire's media day on Monday, Flintoff said: “It's going all right. The first five weeks since the latest operation have been just resting, letting it all settle down.
“The past three or four weeks I've been able to work pretty hard, cycling, swimming, kayaking. I've got a bit of strength back in my legs.
“I've not got a date that I can just pull out of the air. But after the last operation we said five or six months, which is going to take us to the end of July, early August.
“So that's the only time frame. I've not done any cricket yet but over the next few weeks I'll get a bat back in my hand.”
But the all-rounder still hopes to play one-day matches for his country and had an operation on his left knee soon after the Ashes triumph in a bid to cure the latest problem.
However, initial hopes that he could be fit to play for Lancashire at the start of this season had to be revised following further surgery in January.
Now the 32-year-old hopes to be batting again in practice this month or early in May, while his updated timetable of recovery remains to play again for his county by the end of July, with a view to returning in limited-overs cricket for England in due course.
Speaking at Lancashire's media day on Monday, Flintoff said: “It's going all right. The first five weeks since the latest operation have been just resting, letting it all settle down.
“The past three or four weeks I've been able to work pretty hard, cycling, swimming, kayaking. I've got a bit of strength back in my legs.
“I've not got a date that I can just pull out of the air. But after the last operation we said five or six months, which is going to take us to the end of July, early August.
“So that's the only time frame. I've not done any cricket yet but over the next few weeks I'll get a bat back in my hand.”
MCC to sponsor Pakistan-Australia Tests
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced Monday that it would be sponsoring the Test and one-day series between Pakistan and Australia in England in July.
This will be the first time MCC, the owners of London Lord’s Cricket Ground where the first of two Tests between Pakistan and Australia is due to start on July 13, has sponsored an international series in its 223-year history.
The series comes at a time when Pakistan, who will also be playing a Test and one-day series against England this English season, has become a no-go area for international cricket following a terror attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore last year.
MCC’s Australian secretary, Keith Bradshaw, told a news conference in the Long Room of the Lord’s Pavilion on Monday: “MCC is committed to the health of Test cricket, and by sponsoring the series and hosting the first Test, the club is supporting Pakistani cricket at a time when the country’s Test calendar has been decimated.
“We often speak about Tests being the pinnacle of the game — now we are acting to back up those words,” the former Tasmania batsman added.
Bradshaw refused to divulge how much money MCC was putting into the series, which also features a Test at Yorkshire’s Headingley ground in Leeds, citing “commercial confidentiality” but insisted it was a “not for profit exercise” as far as his club was concerned.
“We feel we are independent and to some extent the conscience of the game,” Bradshaw said of MCC, which is still responsible for overseeing the game’s Laws or rules.“We are very thrilled Pakistan are coming here to play at the ‘home of cricket.’
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director of cricket operations Zakir Khan said: “We thank the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and Cricket Australia for helping us out and making this Test and T20 series in England happen.
"We are also very thankful to MCC. When you are not playing your home series at home, it’s very difficult.
“Cricket is still very much at the same level, we have youngsters coming through. The passion is there, that will never die down,” he added. It is nearly a century since Lord’s staged a neutral Test, during the 1912 triangular series involving England, Australia and South Africa.
Two Australian batsman, Warren Bardsley and Charlie Kelleway, scored Test centuries against South Africa at Lord’s that year but their achievements were not marked on the ground’s dressing room honours board.
That was rectified Monday with the unveiling of a new honours board specially created for neutral Tests.
MCC is keen to stage more such matches at Lord’s, at a time when Test cricket outside of England is struggling to attract crowds, and Bradshaw said:
“The last neutral Test was played here in 1912 and I hope we don’t have to wait the best part of a century to play another one.”
This will be the first time MCC, the owners of London Lord’s Cricket Ground where the first of two Tests between Pakistan and Australia is due to start on July 13, has sponsored an international series in its 223-year history.
The series comes at a time when Pakistan, who will also be playing a Test and one-day series against England this English season, has become a no-go area for international cricket following a terror attack on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore last year.
MCC’s Australian secretary, Keith Bradshaw, told a news conference in the Long Room of the Lord’s Pavilion on Monday: “MCC is committed to the health of Test cricket, and by sponsoring the series and hosting the first Test, the club is supporting Pakistani cricket at a time when the country’s Test calendar has been decimated.
“We often speak about Tests being the pinnacle of the game — now we are acting to back up those words,” the former Tasmania batsman added.
Bradshaw refused to divulge how much money MCC was putting into the series, which also features a Test at Yorkshire’s Headingley ground in Leeds, citing “commercial confidentiality” but insisted it was a “not for profit exercise” as far as his club was concerned.
“We feel we are independent and to some extent the conscience of the game,” Bradshaw said of MCC, which is still responsible for overseeing the game’s Laws or rules.“We are very thrilled Pakistan are coming here to play at the ‘home of cricket.’
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director of cricket operations Zakir Khan said: “We thank the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and Cricket Australia for helping us out and making this Test and T20 series in England happen.
"We are also very thankful to MCC. When you are not playing your home series at home, it’s very difficult.
“Cricket is still very much at the same level, we have youngsters coming through. The passion is there, that will never die down,” he added. It is nearly a century since Lord’s staged a neutral Test, during the 1912 triangular series involving England, Australia and South Africa.
Two Australian batsman, Warren Bardsley and Charlie Kelleway, scored Test centuries against South Africa at Lord’s that year but their achievements were not marked on the ground’s dressing room honours board.
That was rectified Monday with the unveiling of a new honours board specially created for neutral Tests.
MCC is keen to stage more such matches at Lord’s, at a time when Test cricket outside of England is struggling to attract crowds, and Bradshaw said:
“The last neutral Test was played here in 1912 and I hope we don’t have to wait the best part of a century to play another one.”
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