Karachi, May 12 (PTI) The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has claimed that he has successfully stamped out players' power in the national team.
"To crush player power I penalised even prominent players like Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal without showing any reluctance which in the past had damaged the team spirit," Butt told the 'Dawn' newspaper.
"Let me assure you that players power of the past does not exist in the national team at the moment as I have taken severe actions to eradicate it," he insisted.
Butt, who has been the PCB chairman since October 2008, said the main reasons behind players' power was the attitude of some senior players.
He said the PCB introduced a number of new players in the side and took strict action against undisciplined seniors.