ICC, PCB and PTT Recommendations

 

Not every recommendations but some of them are worth applying, don’t know why they’re taking time for it!

I know it is going to be a boring conversation but is an important aspect is availability of Cricketing Infrastructure spanned into different parts of the country instead of 3 4 test centers where all around the year, cricket is played. When International Cricket used to organize in Pakistan, Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, were a must for visiting teams to play there, ignoring smaller test centers, like Sheikhupura, Multan (although their newly built stadium is quite big), Faisalabad, Peshawar, Hyderabad Sindh, Mirpurkhas, Sialkot, etc investing in infrastructures in these cities is beneficiary for Pakistan Cricket, as most of the team which plays for Pakistan, hails from these divisions and smaller remote areas, so it’s time for investing in infrastructures instead of wasting money on ICC meetings, where things are preplanned and such meeting are just a formality.

I just wanna know, what improvement did they bought into existing infrastructures? Nothing! I pass everyday from National Stadium Bridge off to Karsaz Road, its shades are all getting rusted, paint and blocks are getting down. When getting free time, when international games aren’t organized on your grounds than why don’t spending some bucks on them, to make them ready when international cricket returns to Pakistan! Are they thinking so far??? I don’t think… They’re in mood to fill the pockets but not of the cricket board’s but of their own selves, that’s why they willing to resume cricketing ties with India but not utilizing one percent of it into their already built ones.

Why am I saying like that?

Talent Hunt Campaigns

Currently talent hunt programs are happening in Lahore, but not in the remote areas of Pakistan where majority of the talent for Pakistan comes from, so they are wasting this money at wrong place! I’d had preferred such camp to be held at Sialkot, Nowshehra, Peshawar, Swat, Multan, or Hyderabad Sindh, plus such talent hunting schemes are useless when it’s happening once at a time, like ECB conducts its county games according to divisions i.e. North, South etc, the same way they should had conducted this talent hunt thing. In this way vacant placed cricket grounds were fully utilized instead of concentrating in one city for whole over Pakistan.

Vacant placed cricketing facilities

Since no international cricket is being played in Pakistan, than its better to let it be upgrade, look at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, the work on its pavilion is still unfinished, National Stadium in Karachi, its short of capacity for a city vastly spanned, maybe it was suitable for the city till 1996 but now city has spanned alot but still its seating arrangements are not upto the mark, big-screen is also ill-placed on the ground level, a major-overhaul is required specially at NSK, but apart from that, new cricketing venues are also required, and refurbishment of existing ones specially at Hyderabad Sindh is required, else it’d be used as marriage halls or/and helipads.

Winning the trust

Winning the trust of Pakistani investors is a big thing, and that could only be done while completing the projects on time plus making this domestic tournaments as a successful package! Already this current domestic Faysal Bank T20 Super 8 2011 tournament was a big success as every team had its own sponsor, therefore sponsors are willing but on the same time, they’re reluctant because of the ill-management and corruption in the cricket board, such thing should be stopped! When domestic tournaments would be a successful package, they (the PCB) will get reserves for upgrading their existing infrastructures.

Why am I still sarcastic?

Because I am not seeing a plan, vision and/or guidelines on which they are working/moving/crawling, they just know how to cry on spilled milk, but are not willing to work out on the reasons! Things are really creepy in the jungle of PCB (as they are running the organization as the rule of the jungle). Atleast when they’re about to leave the seats, they should do something good for the country, for goodness sakes! Before they came into power, Pakistan had some say in cricketing world, Pakistan ranked in between 3 – 4 before 2008, both in tests and ODIs, apart from World T20 Event, no other ICC labeled trophy is shelved for Pakistan., during the same period India has one T20 event in 2007 and one 50 over Cricket World Cup under their name. Plus I personally feel, next year’s World T20 event is again gonna go under the name of India as Sri Lanka is familiar for Indians, as they already had last year’s Asia Cup played at Dambulla under their belts, whereas no planning whatsoever from Pakistan’s end can be seen, as last time when these two teams met, Dhoni was captaining the side both at Sri Lanka and Mohali but this time when Pakistan’s gonna play in Sri Lanka, it’d be Misbah’s turn to wear the cap of Skipper, no stability whatsover, 3 players already in court rooms (the famous trio), the fourth one (Kaneria) going to do the same. I feel they are in spot of bother when it comes to planning for future, they just want to complete their time, already they’re showing their grievances when ICC showed them some recommendations to apply. Some of them I felt were logical, but still for it they’re willing to take dictations, than what can I say!

Peace!

Blunders… Nothing more than blunders

ICC has been renamed by many cricket analysts as Indian Cricket Council instead of International Cricket Council, because of their such series of blunders

Kapil Dev

Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 6s Ct St Tests 131 184 15 5248 163 31.05 8 27 61 64 0 ODIs 225 198 39 3783 175* 23.79 3979 95.07 1 14 71 0 First-class 275 384 39 11356 193 32.91 18 56 192 0 List A 310 270 47 5481 175* 24.57 2 23 99 0 Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10 Tests 131 227 27740 12867 434 9/83 11/146 29.64 2.78 63.9 17 23 2 ODIs 225 221 11202 6945 253 5/43 5/43 27.45 3.71 44.2 3 1 0 First-class 275 48853 22626 835 9/83 27.09 2.77 58.5 39 3 List A 310 14947 9161 335 5/43 5/43 27.34 3.67 44.6 3 2 0

Imran Khan

Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 6s Ct St Tests 88 126 25 3807 136 37.69 6 18 55 28 0 ODIs 175 151 40 3709 102* 33.41 5105 72.65 1 19 36 0 First-class 382 582 99 17771 170 36.79 30 93 117 0 List A 425 384 80 10100 114* 33.22 5 66 84 0 Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10 Tests 88 142 19458 8258 362 8/58 14/116 22.81 2.54 53.7 17 23 6 ODIs 175 153 7461 4844 182 6/14 6/14 26.61 3.89 40.9 3 1 0 First-class 382 65224 28726 1287 8/34 22.32 2.64 50.6 70 13 List A 425 19122 11312 507 6/14 6/14 22.31 3.54 37.7 12 6 0

I am not here to degrade Indian legend by showing such stats but I feel being a sports loving person, it’d be on equality. Honestly if these stats were vice versa i.e. Kapil Dev having stats of Imran Khan and Imran Khan having stats of Kapil Dev, I’d had taken it as this is what sports is all about, means showing sportsmen spirit. But right now when ICC (should I call it International Cricket Council or Indian Cricket Council????), announced the list of all time eleven on the eve of the 2000th test match of international cricket, they made some great blunders, like one I just mentioned above. No doubt Dev has been a great skipper and led his team to famous victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup, but ignoring these criteria’s while announcing an all time 11 that too when international/global cricket is celebrating 2000th test, ignoring not only Imran Khan but also Gary Sobers, Vivian Richards, Richard Headley etc, than personally I think there’s some mistake in it, ok the team must have to be limited to 11 players but you can’t ignore players like I mentioned up above and also Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose! Plus how can we ignore Great Hanif Muhammad, who was given the title of little master by the Queen Elizabeth herself, plus Javed Miandad (know many will crack jokes on him), but the kind of ton innings he played in tough situations, were all match winning scores. So I must say ICC showed biased ness.

Why am I saying like that?

Economically I must admit Kapil Dev is way too much better than Imran Khan in any format of the game, but apart from Economy rate, Strike rates and Averages are also given importance. Mind you both of them were bowling all-rounders means their major was bowling, rest the readers are quite capable of understanding who’s better!

Peace!

Why bowlers into scrutiny all the time?

A blunder which will snatch remaining advantage from bowlers and grant them directly to batsman

ICC has always been in spot of confusion when it wants to innovate the game of cricket. Right now, ICC made modifications into ODI game by introducing usage of 2 different balls from both ends of the wickets. Implementation of such rule means that a bowler will have to limit himself to conventional swing, and no reverse swing whatsoever.

It must also be noted that it’ll give advantage to the team batting, most probably the team which has a strong batting lineup. I am not saying this because I am a Pakistani but I am saying this as a cricket fan that cricket should be a game in which competition between bat and ball on equal grounds.

Why am I saying like that?

I am saying this because of the reason that a pace bowler can bowl swing or reverse swing when it gets old, but when two different balls are to be used from both end, than how can a ball be getting rough enough to be swinging? Only the condition of the pitch can alter it that too during the death overs, maybe new-ball bowlers can take advantage of some sort during the initial over, but this thing would also hamper spin-bowling department as older balls are favourable for spin bowlers, but when balls are to be changed from each end, than bowlers like Saeed Ajmal, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra, Muhammad Hafeez, Suraj Randhiv, Ajantha Mendis might get some trouble, troubling the batsman.

What else????

The guys at ICC also restricted batting and bowling Powerplays to the period between the 16th and the 40th over, means bowlers are going to get spanking from batsman with love, as the ball(s) is going to be new and hard and it will be on comfortable height for batsman to hit, and therefore they’ll have to have revert this stupid law, just like they had to do the same with super-substitute thing which got a biggest flop rating, I can’t find a legitimate reason why and what were the grounds, making the game so complicated by introducing usage of two different ball game in a single inning?

What I say?

The Pakistani print and electronic media has been criticizing this move by ICC as personally I feel it’s a sick-man’s sick dream to introduce such move. Limiting powerplays in between 16th to 40th is a good move but they made a contra of it by introducing such clown-faced recommendation.

Post Script

I say ICC will have to revert it as already before its implication into an international game, it’s a flop idea for sure, don’t wanna be rational but it’ll give advantage to a particular team who’re not able to produce reap of fast bowlers, and when they themselves will start to wobble when their own spin bowlers will start to get spanking because of this, they will than pressurize ICC to revert it. So I am keeping my fingers crossed on it.

Peace!

ICC and Pakistan

Harper did the right thing raising voice against this thing, no one is above the law, the way Indian skipper criticized.

Atlast someone dared to say something openly and bluntly that he’s against rationality in the game of cricket, just like Australian Darrel Harper mentioned in his latest radio interview.

It must be noticed that its against the integrity of umpires and officials that players pointing fingers on the integrity of those who manage a particular game, but the way umpires and officials were criticized by Indian skipper. Anyways don’t wanna say rough about it because its a natural thing but on the contrary it must be noticed that a game should be played with its full spirit.

Anyways, coming back to Pakistan, because of criticism of Pakistan Cricket Board on Pakistan Task Team findings, now members of Pakistan Task Team are expected to visit Pakistan soon, to have a look into ground realties for which Pakistan Cricket Board heavily criticized ICC-PTT on. But I personally feel that the findings of ICC-PTT was well managed because before 1999, Pakistan Cricket Board was run under Governor Bodies, and they used to conduct elections and elect chairman of the cricket board, it was after 1999 that ad-hoc was implemented where chairman of the cricket board was selected by Patron-in-Chief which is usually President of the Country, and the whole problem starts from there.

Why am I saying like that?

I am saying this because of following reasons:

President of the country doesn’t have time to look into the matters of cricketing affairs, and whatever is presented in front of him, he’s to believe them, because its his own appointed personnel. Limiting the power of many people into one single personnel, means there would be a series of blunders, as the chairman would try to poke into other matters like selection of the team and other matters, plus he’ll try to have all powers under him including governor board’s meetings and etc. As there wont be scrutiny or audit of what he does, he’d definitely try to bring his own people into helm of affairs of the board so that there would be anyone who’d be pointing fingers on him. He’d definitely not like a scenario where there would be chance of elections.

What were the main points, PCB raised fingers on ICC-PTT findings?

They wobble that:

• The Fact-Finding report was made on the opinion of one person (Ramiz Raja, who was the only Pakistan in that lot which prepared this report)
• This fact finding report was void of ground realties, which prevails in Pakistan.
• Interaction with Government is necessary when it comes to settling of security and other similar matters.

PCB itself requested ICC for preparing of such report, but there should have been clear guideline, instead of giving privilege

What I say?

I say that these people are living in la la land! First of all, tell me one thing. before 1999 when PCB was run like a joint stock company, which was mentioned in the panels of Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan, also known as SECP, even than teams used to visit Pakistan and play good cricket as well, ok admit it that since September 11, 2001 times have changed but still so much influence of Government ain’t good for the game itself. I don’t know what other reasons are there other than easiness of having corruption in the board. They have literally bankrupt that Hen which used to lay golden eggs because of their spend-theft activities.

By spend-theft, I mean those expenditures which includes unnecessary traveling of our beloved chairman of cricket board whenever and wherever the team is touring to, since its obligatory for Pakistan Cricket Team to play their home and away games on the foreign shores, so its like Eid for the management of Pakistan Cricket Board to enjoy the freedom of traveling world-wide, who can resist to such privileges.

So I am definitely in favour of what ICC recommended but on the same, I do oppose their unnecessary poking, and on this I am in favour of PCB because its none of ICC’s matter as although there are some flaws in the PCB but still Pakistan Cricket Board is Incharge of domestic matters and ICC don’t have any obligation to impose whatsoever grounds, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka also have the same issues i.e. Governmental influences etc but ICC never dare to poke there and impose its authority, it can give suggestions and guidelines but implementing them in on the hands of PCB or the home country cricket board.

Don’t wanna be rational that’s why not saying that because Sharad Pawar is the President of ICC, that’s why this and that is happening, we must admit that India has created its lobbying power to an extend where Pakistan will need some time to reach.

Post Script

By the time I am writing this, India is about to play England in the 2000th test match of cricketing world and still Mr. Butt is on his way to the London to experience that special test match plus have “informal talks” with ICC and ICC-PTT members. I just wanna conclude that they should keep their media cell active so that hoax like such shouldn’t get space on national and international media, in a TV show when CEO of PCB Subhan Ahmed came, and clarified many rumours that they have not rejected but showed some reservations regarding SOME points of their fact-finding reports so one can’t say we’ve rejected them. I just say when such step was taken before such things erupted, couldn’t that been much better? A good manager is a person who senses such things before they occur.

Peace!

What I think of pros and cons off this current ICC Conference for Pakistan Cricket

	These couple of days have been very interactive for the cricketing world, specially when it comes to decision makings and rules regulations for the future of the game, as if how the game is to be played from now on. I agree with many but disagree with some as: Things I agree with: No-Government influence in Cricket Governing Body in a Country Elections in the Country’s Cricket Board chairman and other members instead of being selected from the higher authorities of their Governments Runners’ rule Test Championships etc But things I disagree with: Following are some of the points I greatly disagree with. Some of them even looks like minute points but they are capable of hampering the game itself. Although I must admit not everyone would agree with me on these points specially like you’re reading point like Hawke-Eye, which majority wants to remove it from International Cricket but I think another way. Hawke-Eye removal There can be modification into Hawke-Eye like instead of predicting the 2.5 rule (in simple, the distance it’s gonna cover after passing the batter) it should be removed as there’re some confusion with it but it could had been used for only predicting the overall path of the ball since it pitched and hit the batter so that one can understand what’s going on because I feel human-eye is a much better tool than this Hawk-eye and Virtual Technologies, because with assistance from technology, human-eye can best predict, which way the ball’s gonna move so it’s useless that such technology has been wiped-off from cricket. I’m not putting my weight on this technology but somewhat its helpful for umpires whether they’re upstairs or on field. I’m in favour of retaining these powers with umpires as they are the best to adjudge such decision. Although I am not a great fan of its prediction, look at this for reference. Plus what I feel that Hawk-Eye may struggle with predicting the curved trajectory of a cricket ball after bouncing: the time between a ball bouncing and striking the batsman may be too short to generate the three frames (at least) needed to plot a curve accurately. Matches distributions Matches’ distribution among the member countries have been unequal, where India, England and Australia have been the major beneficiaries from current FTP which is for the period between 2011 to 2020 season. I already wrote about unequal distribution, but forgot to mention that how other teams are going to progress when they’re going to play less matches compared to India, Australia and England, how can a team progress up to ICC Test and ODI rankings when it is to play mere 88, 89 matches when the formers are going to play 120 matches a piece during the same period. I am not saying this being a Pakistani but overall, when it comes to teams like South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand as well, they also got double figured matches. Window for Domestic Tournaments This is the major concern for me, as business is a funny thing which requires competition among the masses, here India was able to create window for two of its multimillion tournaments in this current edition of FTP, if that’s the case than SLPL is just round the corner, plus many countries are planning to stage their own edition of Premier Leagues’, plus many countries are already having their own T20 domestic tournaments like England and Australia and most probably West Indies too and therefore we can expect from them that they can also press ICC to give window for their domestic tournaments, and therefore by giving space to such tournaments, ICC itself have self-detonated. Test and ODI Cricket Ratings  They didn’t discussed it like the way it should had been but it is a major concern as there are some comical errors in the rating system, as what I feel in-order to create a sense of performance variable points system, they forgot that there could be instances like a number two team in the test ranking, playing a number seven ranked team, at latter’s home-ground, if former wins series 2-1 or even 1-0, it’ll not affect its ranking, but if the second team wins even a single test game against the number two sided team, it’s ranking will improve vice versa and similarly that number two team will have some decline to its ratings. Similar was the case with Pakistan, when before ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, it toured New Zealand, it won the test and ODI series but still its ratings weren’t moved, although those games which Pakistan lost in ODI’s that time were close games and Pakistan didn’t lost those games with the margin less 50 runs. Unlike FIFA having its ratings in which they calculate how much a team scored goals and how much goals were scored against them and who were the opposition they were playing with, they also applied variances but it is working unlike this ICC Ranking System, where I can’t understand and what in the world made them to apply performance variable calculus for robots when the players playing on cricket grounds are human beings. Last but not the least, The Associates Initially before this meeting, the Associates were scrapped off from 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup which is awarded to Australia and New Zealand, and this tournament was initially limited to 10 top full member teams, but in this meeting it was decided that this tournament would be a 14 teams with four teams being from the associates, which have to play the qualifiers. Associates have taken it as their win as now they are able to play against the big guns and polish themselves. What About Pakistan Cricket Board? I think these were the major points which could create a difference in future for the games, but still for Pakistan Cricket Board I’d say they should work for the recommendations laid down by ICC Pakistan Task Team a.k.a. ICC PTT, they should work for the implementations of those recommendations, instead of making lame excuses like they’ve been right now. Satisfying the ICC ain’t an achievement, instead clearing up their own collars and their own house if what is really mattered. I don’t wanna say anything more which might make me end-up being blocked from blogosphere, but what’s my philosophy that you should point fingers on others but not before clearing up yourself and well-prepared. That’s where I’m finding this cricket-board being foolishly runned, is this a way a corporate organization is run? I don’t think so. What I say, and WHY? What my experience working in the corporate, they ask for work and results, and in case of presentation or slides of achievements, you’re advised to be fully prepared, confident, bold and fluent, and you should work on yourself that much that people around you should act according to you, instead of they dictating the terms on you. This current Cricket Board is working vice-versa, they’re not confident, agile and most importantly without any homework at all, so how can they say that they posses achievements of some sorts? Pathetic is a hard term but its still not enough for them, as they are more than they are seen above the ground. Post-Script In short, I can only say that Pakistan should work on the next FTP from today so that such mishaps which happened this time ain’t gonna happen again, plus ICC should also pave way from all member countries to have almost equal number of games during the FTP period, there can be a difference of ± 5-10 games but difference like one can see in this current FTP where one team is playing 120 odd games while other team is playing 80 odd during the same period, they wobble that they’re taking all possible steps to promote the game of cricket, than how and what in the world is making the over-looking such basic things. I am not saying this being a Pakistani but being a sports lover that when ICC is saying clear up the mess from your house, than they should first apply the same with them and clear up those drama-queens which are in ICC, responsible for such a mess. They say spot and match fixing is a big mess in cricket, I say they should first remove betting from cricket as I feel this is not the main instead the root cause and mother of all problems and a bone-of-contention. No offence… Cheers!

The ICC Conference 2011 in Hong Kong and Pakistan…

	ICC surely took some tough decisions in this conference held at Hong Kong, some were meaningful others were meaningless, like allotting unequal number of games among the playing nations Atlast India have won this frontier and many congrats on it as they made Pakistan Cricket on the backfoot. But no blame game as whatever happened, is because of our own mistakes. Why I am saying this? Its because of just 88 test matches, in which some of the India-Pakistan matches schedules are yet to be decided due to political differences between the two boards, officially it says 88 but I say not more than 78 79 test matches after Pakistan tour to Windies to the end of 2020 where this current FTP is limited to. In it we’re unsure of many tournaments which Pakistan is going to play according to FTP, but while reviewing the FTP I find out that there Pakistan has been deprived of its share of games allotted as compared to India, Australia and England, who have been playing a 5 match test series, Pakistan is only given maximum 4 match series, else its flooded with 3 match, maximum 4 match per series even against the opposition like South Africa, England, Australia, New Zealand etc. Not counting the ODI and T20 as compared to the above mentioned ones, they are also playing the major share of ODI’s as well, where Pakistan has been the third last behind Windies, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in its quota of games to be played between the period. I am not saying it did injustice and did and that, but the matter of fact is that there are mistakes from our end, which made us pay the price to that extend, they just capitalized the advantage they got because of us. Else Boards like BCB and SLC were/are under threat from ICC on losing its membership, PCB could had taken them in the club and tried convincing the ICC to give more share of games under its belt in this current FTP. As far as the rules and regulation that ICC gave a press release about cricket boards without political influence, means Pakistan Cricket Board, Bangladesh Cricket Board and Sri Lanka Cricket are under direct assault and they have 24 months to bring that much change into their whole system. Although Pakistan solitary retaliated and foolishly said that political influence is required for setting up security matters for foreign and national tours etc, but I agree with the ICC on it that cricket boards are required to be elected not selected. It means that Pakistan will experience many changes in its system, influence of governing council, board of governance, which were a tale of old times will revive again. Hoping for the best for Pakistan cricket.

Creating loop-holes themselves

Appointing a penalized and banned cricketer as a cricket analyst…? What happened to the media guys? I don’t know what the hell has happened to the guys at media, who constantly wobble about media ethics and this and that, and they’ve allowed a penalized player to be giving his opinion on a private Pakistani Television during the Cricket World Cup. What I say let them feel that they had committed mistake by letting them instead of giving them space on Television. Although he would be giving his professional opinions there but its also giving an impression that we don’t care as a nation whether a person is good or not. Although I must admit he’s a great player but he played those innings to bring fame for the country and this time, country has been defamed because of these trio’s stupid act and in the mean time we’re giving them space on TV. Why I am saying so? I am saying so because at the time when M. Azharuddin was barred from participating for the national cricket side, he was given contract doing the same job which SB doing, but the ICC that time act on time and such thing won’t happened. But this time ICC has been taking half measures while punishing them initially and than giving a backdoor escaping en-route by being helpless when SB is going to be giving his opinions on cricket world cup matches on a Television channel which do not have a airing or broadcasting rights of Cricket World Cup 2011 matches. Atleast! They should stick to their words instead of acting like a empty spray bottle having few last drops of window cleaning fluid. Peace…

Is ICC unbiased?

Someone should take strong action from Pakistani end.

How espncricinfo.com is covering this story

Transliteration (not good but still need your feedback on it) Karachi (staff reporter): ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat on the eve of the case on spot fixing allegations on the Pakistani trio, showed biased nature on suspended Pakistani trio by giving sensational statements which might hurt the open hearing tribunal status. He was found saying that if Asif, Amir and Salman get away from their cases, so he’ll be disappointed. He further mentioned that ICC is not going to adopt lenient attitude with the trio. It must be noted that from 6th to 11th January 2011, there would be open hearing on the trios future. Mr. Lorgat further mentioned while talking to an international radio service that the ICC wants to convey a strict message internationally with this case hearing. During the August 2010 The Lord’s Test, the trio were alleged of doing spot fixing, which is benched by 3 tribunal members lead by Michael Bellof apart from South African Alby Sachez and Kenyan Sharad Rao. Mr. Lorgat was further found saying that the ICC has worked hard collecting the evidences against the trio and that’s why if these players got away, it’ll be a huge disappointment for them. ICC can’t and shouldn’t dare to bear corruption in the game, if these players are found guilty, than they should be punished as the game’s standard is on stake. He further acknowledges the work done by the PCB for reduction of corruption in the game. Lorgat further said that he’s satisfied with the 3 judges of the tribunal and hopefully they’re going to prove it as well.

Too much influence sorry to say influenced by our own heads

Sorry to say but not only the PCB selection committee but the whole PCB seems to me a dummy organization, which gets influenced from the sports governing body. Although obeying them isn’t a bad thing, but the country’s interest should come first. If that were the case that 5 of Pakistan players are barred from representing their own country, namely Danish Kaneria, Senior Akmal, M. Amir and Asif and Salman Butt, who are barred from representing their country internationally in a cricketing even, than why so much privilege is given to Suresh Raina, one of my personal favourite middle order batter, when he also have the charges and most importantly similar to that of Amir, Asif and Salman Butt, but still he’s playing a representing his country against the Kiwis in their own backyard. I just wanna ask why so much discrimination.

Although I must say we always lacked in creating lobbying in favour of us, and that’s why we’re always deprived of cricketing friends internationally. Look at New Zealand, they are creating their relations with the USACA, SLC with Cricket Canada, India with South East Asian Countries, namely Malaysia to be name some, but what other grounds are we endorsing, other than the cricket grounds in UAE, although we’re still paying them for OUR home games at a place where cricket is not being played and what else. In my opinion Emirates authorities should pay to us because games involving Pakistan or any South Asian Country is a crowd attractor, but thanks to them we missed that opportunity as well.

And now if I am not wrong, in the Future Tour Programs, Pakistan got less share of their matches as majority of teams are reluctant to play against them, that’s what the reason is given, and rightly so they’re objecting rightly as we’re not able to portray our own case successfully and clearly internationally. The majority of responsibility goes to the people, unfortunately sitting on our heads, who’re always found on doing politics on their own motives instead of for Pakistan Cricket, for which they’re being known to.

By the time I am writing this thing, Senior Akmal, Shoaib Malik (the drama king), Imran Farhat (Samad Bond), Danish Kaneria, Salman Butt, M. Amir and M. Asif are confirmed not joining the squad on the basis of not cleared from the board’s integrity committee, but the Pakistan Cricket Board did not give any further details as to why that decision was taken and MoYo not joining because of fitness problems as a break is the requirement of his age. More importantly, Yousuf was ruled out of the Tests against South Africa on the morning of the first Test due to a recurrence of a groin injury but that wasn’t the reason for his exclusion. “The injury is not an issue,” Mohsin said. “Yousuf is a great player we all know that, but we are concerned over his fitness levels and so have not picked him.”

When it comes to Kaneria, no reason was given for Kaneria missing out the South Africa series, though it was speculated that his involvement in a spot-fixing case earlier in the summer for Essex – from which he was cleared – played a role. This time, however, it is believed he has been dropped because the selectors are simply keen to push Ajmal or Rehman.

Umar Gul, Tanvir Ahmed, Sohail Tanvir and Wahab Riaz – subject to fitness after suffering a muscle strain against South Africa – will take on the bulk of the pace bowling. Additionally Shoaib Akhtar will be there for the three Twenty20s.

Being a curious person by nature, I feel already Wahab Riaz is recovering from an injury due to which he was left out of the Test Squad and remaining of ODI squad against the Proteas which was recently played at Dubai and Abu Dhabi, so how it could be confirmed that Riaz might be the right choice as it is. They must have taken him is the second probable as the conditions in Kiwiland would be totally different than Dubai and Abu Dhabi where in the first test we were able to manage without Riaz in the middle of the match, that won’t be the case in NZ. They need a good manager IN OFFICE, not with the team as their own matters aren’t managed properly…
May Allah Bless Us All.

They showed us how the cricket BE played!!!

Credit must be given to Bangladeshis for giving up a good show and showing us that a game consisting of Bangladesh is not a boring game anymore…

Credit must be given to the brave Bangladeshi cricket team for showing a courageous show on the field against the Kiwis, winning the series 3-0 in the fourth one day international played at Mirpur. For me, the main reason for having this a important milestone in international cricket is that unlike previous Bangladesh’s matches, the marketing aspects of their series’ didn’t worth as much as India, Pakistan, Australia, England, Sri Lanka worth. Even at the start of this series, Kiwis were thought as the favourites for this series, as they already had a series win against Pakistan in the UAE…

The Bangladeshi’s really showed the cricket world how the current cricket should be played, competitive and a game which could be anyone’s at anytime, unlike a one sided game or a series, which could be and is proving to be a problem being faced by the modern cricket these days i.e. so called useless games in which a stronger opponent thrashes a weaker minnow by a hefty margin and etc…

I suppose and believe this is the first time since their inception into international cricket, they’ve gained such a series lead against a major test playing team in one day internationals, and so this has literally generated this thought that cricket is literally unpredictible and a funny game, and that too is the essence of this beautiful game. The importance of Pakistan cricket team in modern cricket is just because of the above mentioned reason, and that’s the same reason the ICC is bearing Pakistan cricket board, although they’ve transparency and system problems, because of which, non-deserving people on the helm of affairs of Pakistani cricket are now incharge of it, and although Pakistan suffers the problem of corruption and martyr of merit standards in selection of those people who’d be running the affairs in Pakistan cricket, still ICC HAS to bear it, because Pakistan gives cricketing world an essence of as I mentioned earlier unpredictablity, it could either thrash someone bigger than its own size, else will be thrashed by someone minnow…

Lets see, how the ICC tackle the current funny situation in Pakistani and International Cricket where minnows have started to show tough times to the big teams already…