Deficit Budget Announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board – Cricket News Update
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a deficit budget for the year 2011-12, highlighting the lack of International Cricket being played at home.
While talking to the media, the chairman of the PCB, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 said, “A deficit budget has been approved. We have been forced to play away from home for the last two years but the impression that we suffer losses in every series played on neutral venue is
not correct."
Pakistan have not hosted any international tournament since the terrorist attacks of 2009 on the touring Sri Lankan national team in Lahore, which claimed the lives of eight Pakistanis and injured seven Sri Lankans. The tour was immediately called off and
has become a difficult stigma for the PCB to remove ever since.
After these attacks Pakistan has been forced to play home events outside the country at a neutral arena and so far the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
Now England, after refusing to play in Pakistan will face the Men in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 will also play against Pakistan in the Gulf state.
Speaking to the press on the occasion, Butt, also revealed that the PCB has plans to uplift the domestic cricket circuit.
It was also disclosed by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 was weighing options to launch a domestic Twenty20 league on the footings of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
“We want to stage our own Twenty20 league although we do not have the expertise but we are still trying," he reiterated.
Butt, in a bid to strengthen discipline within the county’s cricket has vowed to root out player power and has taken serious steps in this regard. The PCB has imposed heavy fines on players giving interviews to media without the prior consent of the board.
Keeping the aim of stamp out player power, last month the PCB effectively deposed one-day skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sahibzada-Mohammad-Shahid-Khan-Afridi-c87933, after receiving word of his misbehaviour with the touring management. The move errupted a feud which almost saw Afridi and the PCB locking horns
in court, however, the matter was resolved mutually.
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