The statement of Mr Sheharyar Khan on the first day of his taking over as the chairman PCB that Misbahul Haq will be retained as captain till the World Cup and Mr Subhan was the man in the PCB, removed any semblance of doubts about the fact that the PCB will be remote controlled by Mr Najam Sethi, and that Mr Sheharyar Khan will be more than happy to blindly continue his policies even at the peril of Pakistan cricket.
The shocking manner in which our cricket team surrendered in Test and ODI series during its recently concluded tour of Sri Lanka, is just the tip of an iceberg. But even more pathetic was the inertia of the top management of the PCB which utterly, and most probably deliberately, failed to perform an accountability act, vis-a-vis the responsible persons of the tour management committee, all types of coaches who took the tour as a joyride or a paid holiday, and the players who failed despite having been on a very long training camp preparing for the Sri Lanka’s tour, during the last few months.
Why can’t the most seasoned living diplomat in the country understand the simple fact that the existence of the PCB is due to the world class players like Younis Khan and not the vice versa?
It seems that everybody in the country except the chairman PCB knows the fact that a vested group in the PCB is playing dirty politics which has ruined the game, spirit and morale of our players to the extent that since the PCB was taken over by Mr Najam Sethi our team miserably lost the Champions Trophy by going down to the last position among all the participants, lost a Test and an ODI against Zimbabwe, T20 World Cup and the Asia Cup.
In order to put a full stop in the continuous decline of the Pakistan cricket (which was obviously due to a string of poor decisions of Mr Najam Sethi and Co) the incumbent chairman PCB must take command of the board in his own hands and act on his own independent decisions.
SYED NAYYAR UDDIN AHMAD
Lahore
