SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is always abuzz with controversies. For a long time PCB chairmanship has been remained a problem and later PCB has nominated Azhar Ali captain for one day squad who has never been known as ODI player. Apart from this making Haroon Rashid as a chief selector is another blunder. Haroon Rashd lacks the required insight and cricketing experience. Now if at all Azhar is to be made the captain and Sarfraz Ahmad vice captain, why not keep Misbah as captain and Sarfraz as vice captain for future grooming? PCB is taking retrogressive steps (already the PCB old top brass is mentally living in the 20th century, whereas world cricket has moved to the 21st century, as was clearly visible in the World Cup performances, where we not only lost, but comprehensively lost many matches by a wide margin and many matches were surrendered in 32-34 overs). Actually, PCB is suffering from severe internal politics and bickering, which is rampant due to more than one power centre. As such, the competent authority is once again requested to personally look into the doomed PCB affairs, to uplift the totally collapsed cricketing structure from the abyss by imposing an ad hoc setup in the PCB, which should be headed by a hard taskmaster who should be a through professional with impeccable reputation of honesty.
he existence of dirty politics is the real bane of Pakistan’s cricket. PCB’s inconsistent policies are playing havoc with the game. Players and officials are selected and replaced in quick succession. Moin Khan was appointed chief selector in haste and then fired in equal haste for visiting a casino in Australia. However, no one probed whether he alone was responsible for this misadventure. Perhaps the time has come for Shehryar Khan to call it a day, quit the post in a dignified manner, and persuade those who owe their positions to his patronage to follow in his footsteps. The entire cricket structure and the PCB need an overall reorganisation from top to bottom to end the game of musical chairs that has paralysed the PCB. Only a dynamic and knowledgeable PCB can clean up the mess in cricket affairs due to the existence of favouritism, cronyism and violation of merit.
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