Parliament, Karachi Cricket slam PCB
Only a day after former Pakistani cricketers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board for lacklustre management, Iqbal Mohammad Ali, a Pakistani parliamentarian appealed to the President of the country to sack the PCB chairman, Ejaz Butt. Asif Ali Zardari, who is the president of Pakistan, is also a patron of the PCB and appoints the chairman of the PCB.
Ali wrote a letter to the President and appealed to him to change the administration because of which, he felt, the Pakistani team had been reduced to the title of minnows. Ali also wrote that the PCB chairman and his friends within the PCB lacked any management ethics and hence, it would serve the PCB better if someone more dynamic could be brought in.
Ali also said, “The incompetence of Mr. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 has already brought enough shame for our country at international level.”
This is not the first time that a Parliamentarian has spoken against Pakistan cricket. Jamshed Dasti, a member of the parliament, had earlier alleged things like match-fixing and deliberately losing games against the Pakistani cricket regulators.
Some of the former players like Aamer Sohail, Abdul Qadir and Iqbal Qasim, who were a part of the PCB in different roles like selector and cricket academy chief, had all resigned thanks to the reputed autocratic behaviour of Butt.
And what worsened the day for Pakistan cricket was that the Karachi City Cricket Association also criticised the selectors for not selecting players from Karachi in the team. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasir-Hameed-c2811. With Gul out of the series, if none of the other two are picked, then all the 11 in the team will be from one province.
The KCCA lambasted the PCB for ignoring cricketers from Karachi, which includes the likes of Sarfraz Ahmed, Khurram Manzoor, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 earlier this year, but he was replaced by Zulqarnain Haider on the tour of England for reasons unknown.
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