Younis top-scores in PCB central contracts point system

KARACHI, February 5: Senior batsman Younis Khan has got the highest ratings in Pakistan Cricket Board's new central system which considers aggregate of the points secured by the players in eight separate categories.
According to documents, the players were awarded points in eight separate categories -- seniority, conduct/discipline, fitness, performance, poor performance and failures, potential, extraordinary performances recently and team spirit -- and aggregates were counted out of 100 points.
Younis secured the highest with 78 followed by Misbah-ul-Haq (71) while maverick speedster Shoaib Akhtar, who was dropped from the 15-member list, scored the least -- 33 points -- out of 21 players assessed by the PCB.
The aggregate points for other players are: Mohammad Yousuf (67), Mohammad Asif (64), Shoaib Malik (63), Kamran Akmal (57), Umar Gul (56), Salman Butt (52), Shahid Afridi (51), Sohail Tanvir (50), Abdul Rehman (49), Yasir Arafat (49), Rao Iftikhar (49), Danish Kaneria (45), Fawad Alam (45), Mohammad Hafeez (42) and Yasir Hameed (39).
Akhtar got six points for seniority, two for conduct and discipline, three for fitness, 22 for performance, minus three for failures and poor performances and one each for potential, extraordinary performances and team spirit.
Captain Malik got minus two points for failures and just 14 for performances and five for potential. Misbah, Younis, Yousuf are the only players who got zero points for failures.
The discipline and conduct segment makes interesting reading. Younis got 10, Misbah 19, Yousuf 12, Asif 16, Shoaib Malik 12, Akmal 16, Gul 10, Butt 15, Afridi 8, Tanvir 12, Rehman 17, Arafat 17, Iftikhar 14, Kaneria 13, Alam 19, Hafeez 5, Hameed 15.