Pakistan Cricket Board launches education programme for players, coaches – Cricket news
Former Test captain of Pakistan cricket team, Wasim Bari revealed on Thursday that the Pakistan Cricket Board has started a program to educate its players and the coaching staff on how to stay away from corruption in the game.
Bari, who heads the program, told media reporters that they have conducted lectures for the regional teams in which they have taught the players how to behave in the international sport. He also told that the players were given lectures
on the PCB code of conduct as well as International Cricket Council’s code of conduct.
“We have held lectures for all the regional teams including coaches who are part of the domestic structure and also for the national under-19 and A team players and support staff,” said Bari while talking to a leading news website.
“We are also telling them how to behave in a dressing room, how to interact with strangers and outsiders. How to avoid getting lured into corrupt practices. We are preparing them for international cricket,” he added further.
All these steps are being taken by the Board in the wake of lengthy bans imposed on three http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 players, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, following their involvement in spot-fixing in a Test match against England in August
2010.
All the three players were banned from all formats of cricket for a minimum of five years by an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal earlier in 2011 after they were found guilty.
Bari told that the banned trio was not allowed to take part in the program. He said that the appeal of the players against their bans is yet to be heard so the matter is ‘technically subjudice’ and this did not allow the Board to involve
the disgraced trio in any program for the time being.
The 63-year-old former Pakistan wicketkeeper said that the lectures are being delivered in the Pakistan’s national language, Urdu, so that the participants could understand them with ease. He further added that the players and other participants
were encouraged to take part in the question and answer sessions.
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