Imad Wasim retires from international cricket
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Pakistan allrounder Imad Wasim has retired from international cricket with immediate effect. Imad, who announced his retirement with a post on social media, played 55 ODIs and 66 T20Is for Pakistan as a left-arm spinner and lower-order batter. He last represented Pakistan in April this year in a T20I against New Zealand in Rawalpindi.
"In recent days I have been doing a lot of thinking about my international career and I have come to the conclusion that now is the right time for me to announce my retirement from international cricket," Imad wrote on X. "I would like to thank the PCB for all their support over the years - it has truly been an honour to represent Pakistan.
"Each of my 121 appearances across the ODI and T20I formats was a dream come true. It's an exciting time for Pakistan cricket going forwards with new coaches and leadership incoming. I wish all involved every success and I look forward to watching the team excel.
"Thank you to the Pakistan fans for always supporting me with such passion. A final thank you to my family and friends who have been so important in helping me achieve at the highest level. I now look forward to focussing on the next stage of my playing career away from the international stage."
Imad, now 34, was part of Pakistan's Under-19 World Cup-winning side in 2006 and went on to lead Pakistan in the next edition, in 2008. He had to wait till 2015 for a Pakistan debut, in a T20I against Zimbabwe in Lahore. This was when international cricket returned to Pakistan six years after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore. He represented Pakistan in the T20 World Cup that followed, in 2016. In 2019, he captained Pakistan, in two ODIs against Australia in Dubai, when regular captain Shoaib Malik was out with an injury.
In all, he took 44 wickets and scored 986 runs in ODIs. In T20Is, he took 65 wickets and scored 486 runs. His best performance with the ball, incidentally, is identical in both formats - 5 for 14.
Imad is currently in Karachi Kings' roster for the PSL, and recently played in the Hundred, the CPL and the LPL as well. He has also been a regular in the English county circuit. In fact, born in Swansea in Wales, he played his early cricket in the UK.
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Your community was created a year ago.
Copypasta spam with no original content added has been frowned upon since 2016.
Just because you consider this effortless spam acceptable it does not override the general consensus of the Hive community. The general consensus is reflected in the support that we receive in our proposal.
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It is not "copypasta spam" unless it is reposted multiple times. A single post with an added source is considered a sourced post, and shared content from other social media.
You do not wish to acknowledge its value in social media, and that is your opinion. However, that is an opinion and not objective fact (as opposed to direct plagiarism, direct spamming, etc.). Are opinions of content value part of the purview for hivewatchers?
Once again, if you wish to be part of the curation team for the community, you are welcome to discuss this with us, and we can always put it to a vote within our community. Otherwise, you are intruding into our community and making value decisions based upon your established opinion and overriding the rest of the community, seeing as your vote canceled out all of the others which were positive.
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I will request proof of this. Thus far, the 2nd and 3rd accounts have posted 1 article per day from an outside source,, none repeated, and all sourced. It is not my favorite content, but it is not spam nor is it plagiarism. This has been my experience with them while they have posted in this community.
I've offered a reasonable option to have you apply as a member of our curation team so that we could hear out your opinions in more detail, and also to put it up for a community vote. I've explained my personal rationale for the value that sharing content can provide, but you choose to ignore the reasoning behind this argument.
You insist upon your opinion and ignore the question of whether it is within the purview of hivewatchers, which is supposed to be objective. Are you afraid to answer this question and reveal bias?
Instead, your response is to levy threats upon this community. You are the abuser. You should be ashamed of yourself for how you handled this situation.
I will be making a post about this and allow the community to decide. However, based on your current behavior and refusal to accept the openness that I offered you, your presence is not currently welcomed here. Do not bother the members of my community.
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Nice little edit there. How is rewarding HSBI and Ecency Points considered abuse? Please do explain your rationale.
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We have less formal channels with @freecompliments, so have messaged them there, but will formally state for the record that we are discouraging them from sponsoring HSBI units for this type of content.
There is merit in the argument that 'curating content from elsewhere' is normal behavior for social media, but most social media does not include direct monetization for the end user. Hive as a community needs to hold itself to a higher standard.
Monetization of content that was creating by others, without obtaining explicit permission from the creator or adding substantial effort of ones own, such as extensive quotation or fair use doctrine, is plagiarism, illegal in most jurisdictions, and not supported by Hive SBI.
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Well, I thank you for taking both of our points of view into consideration, and also for adding your own reasoning in a most cordial way. This is how I prefer an exchange of ideas: with mutual respect and understanding. Indeed, I am well aware that differences in opinions exist, and as such I do respect both of your opinions on this matter.
In line with this statement, my contention with @hivewatcher's decision was that there is a subjective value that we're assigning to this type of content (i.e. opinions), and thus that's out of their scope to vote upon, as it's supposed to be purely objective.
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This is a wonderful point, and it definitely shifted my perspective. Now, my opinion would still stand as long as sourcing is clearly available, but this further incentivizes me to place this to a community vote. I will, of course, include this essential quote so that there's symmetry of information.
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