Pakistan must enhance its domestic cricket, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Akhtar-c90080 – Cricket News Update
Shoaib Akhtar, one of the fastest bowlers of the history of the game, has urged the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board (PCB) to concentrate on domestic cricket, rather than persuading foreign teams to visit the troubled land.
No international team has visited Pakistan since March, 2009, when the terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team outside the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, before the start of play on day three of the second Test.
The Green Shirts have been playing their home matches outside the country since then, depriving their fans back home of great entertainment.
The current Chairman of PCB, Zaka http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397, is trying extremely hard to revive international cricket in the country but his efforts have been in vain till date.
Akhtar, who retired from the game after the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011, believes that the board should take the situation as a ‘blessing in disguise’ and must ameliorate the standard of domestic cricket, which has been suffering since decades.
The 36-year-old claims that the country has immense natural talent, which needs to be groomed but requires a stable structure of the game at the grass-root level to flourish.
“Instead of focusing on revival of cricket, PCB should use its resources to develop domestic structure and utilize its assets to generate more funds to strengthen the position of the board and boost first-class cricket through reasonable investment. Pakistan
has much talent and board’s efforts can introduce brilliants players who can bring laurels to the country,” he said.
The ‘Rawalpindi Express’ is ready to render his services to Pakistan and said that he can help the board find young and budding speedsters, who play a crucial part in a team’s success in international cricket.
Akhtar expressed, “He is ready to give back what he has got from his country. He would be glad to find some great talent from the country and train them to represent the country at the national and international levels.”
The Green Shirts are struggling in the fast bowling department since the ban imposed on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in 2010.
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