Cricket circles have urged Pakistan Cricket Board to implement its code of conduct for office bearers of regional bodies in true letter and spirit to stop unnecessary criticism and creation of controversies in cricketing affairs.
“It has become a common practice that office bearers of regional cricket associations are giving statements on media without knowing the seriousness of the issues related to cricket and by that way controversies are being surfaced to harm the interest of cricket at early level,” they said here on Wednesday.
They said the responsibility of regional cricket bodies and the clubs affiliated to them is to promote cricket at grass root level and to find ways and means for its betterment and they have deviated from their cause by involving themselves by coming up with statements which are disrupting the functioning of respective bodies and promoting dis-unity among them.
They said in recent months this trend has flourished and office bearers of regional bodies are going to media on irrelevant issues to follow their specific agenda to create rifts and dis-unity among the ranks.
They said one such example is Secretary, Lahore City Cricket Association, Mian Javed Ali who has been served a show cause notice by PCB for his undue criticism recently on a tv programme which has put a question mark on the working of LCCA.
“PCB is showing zero tolerance against such incidents or actions and it banned KCCA Secretary Ijaz Farooqi for one year for a similar offense and we believe that PCB will deal the case of Javed in a similar way without considering any pressure from any quarter to help maintain discipline in LCCA,” they added.
“Regional bodies should confine themselves to their role which is the uplift of the at early level but they are involved in criticism for the promotion of their vested interest””,they added.
They demanded the PCB to take steps to ensure that regional bodies work within their domain to help PCB for the development of grass root level.
