Countdown starts for Ijaz Butt and his regime
Ijaz Butt and his nincompoops should start counting their days as the Chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Sports Iqbal Mohammad Ali has appealed to the Patron in Chief of the PCB, President Asif Ali Zardari to dissolve the current board. Iqbal feels Ijaz Butt is responsible for the plunging standard of cricket in the country and has advised the President to get rid of the current PCB set up as soon as possible.
The Pakistan cricket team has recorded some of its worst performances under the political set up established by Ijaz Butt and his allies, particularly since their devastating tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 team capitulated to scores below the 100 run mark on two occasions at Trent Bridge and Edgbaston respectively.
The nine-wicket defeat at Edgbaston ticked the Pakistan Parliament into action. Chairman Standing Committee on Sports wrote a letter to President Asif Ali Zardari informing him about the performance of Ijaz Butt’s administration and has argued that Butt and his allies have reduced the status of the former world champions to the “minnows of cricket”. In a scathing two page letter, the Pakistan parliamentarian has requested the patron on the behalf of the people of Pakistan to dismiss the incumbent PCB management.
Iqbal, in his letter, informed the President of Pakistan that Ijaz Butt and his close aides have sloppily let down the confidence of cricket lovers of the country by making a mockery of the administrative ethics at the PCB. According to Iqbal, only a dynamic and energetic chairman can run the affairs of Pakistan cricket in a professional way. He further added that advocating the image of Pakistan effectively at the international forum was the responsibility of the PCB and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 failed to do so. Iqbal further said that the incompetence of Ijaz Butt has already earned Pakistan enough shame at the international level. It would not be wrong to mention that the stupidity of Butt earned him the title of “buffoon” from former ICC President Malcolm Speed. Experts opined that it wasn’t Ijaz Butt who was disgraced by such a comment, rather it was a Pakistani who was called a joker at an international forum.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, and has blamed the PCB Chief and the team management for earning Pakistan a bad name. Pakistan cricket has also gone through five Test captains in a period of one year.
Veterans cricketers like Aamer Sohail, Iqbal Qasim and Abdul Qadir were forced to resign after holding senior level positions in the board largely due to the autocratic system in the PCB under Ijaz Butt.
Besides the poor performance of team, the chairman of the standing committee also blamed the management for losing the hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup.
According to Iqbal Khan, Yawar Saeed, the incumbent manager of Pakistan cricket and a close ally of Ijaz Butt, was arousing politics within the players. He believed that Saeed is “destroying the much-needed unity in the team by supporting certain groups of players against others.”
Iqbal Khan has appealed to the Patron of the PCB to dissolve the existing regime of Ijaz Butt without letting them damage the national sport anymore. He suggested that the incumbent board should be at once replaced by an ad-hoc committee for the next 6-8 months and in the meanwhile, representatives of the country’s cricket board should be elected in a democratic way. The parliamentarian feared that if the current regime is allowed to continue anymore, it will ruin the game in Pakistan for ever.
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