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Pak team leaves for England, sans coach

The 15-member Pakistan cricket team led by Wasim Akram has left Lahore for London to participate in the World Cup, minus its coach Javed Miandad.

Miandad said that he quit his post as national coach because of the Pakistan Cricket Board's attitude. It preferred a foreign coach to him.

In an interview, Miandad deviated from his earlier stand in which he had cited personal reasons for his resignation.

Miandad told the media that during the tours to India and Sharjah he was ''thoroughly disgusted'' by the attitude of the influential group of the BCCP which was responsible for the ouster of opener Amir Sohail from the national team. After Sohail, he was the only hurdle for the group which was bent on generating an inferiority complex within him, Miandad alleged.

He said that he was given a nominal allowance of 400 pounds per match while the foreign coach, who had no Test experience, was allowed 2,000 pounds per week.

UNI