What Ails Pakistan Cricket?

Cricket lovers are raising their voices. Will someone listen up? Questions Aslam Aziz

The cricket enthusiasts, additionally the Pakistani media had believed that the cricket world cup being played in India these days would be won by Pakistan because its team is comprised of an array of world-class bowlers and batsmen,  who could defeat even India on its soil. 

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As a consequence of this adjustment of dissenting voices and strong lobbies, a fighter team has not come about after the Imran era. In the creation of this mess, the ex-cricketers holding elevated positions such as chief selector, selectors, and different coaches have played a role in it.  It is a common belief the chairman of the board,  despite power is a pawn in the hands of the formers, who exploit him to the hilt, they hoodwink at him so much that he is constrained to follow their lobby's interest in maintaining his position.

Could anyone in the high echelons listen to the increasing voices of the unfortunate cricket lovers, who want to see their team at the top once again,  but for this painstaking task, the people, who have created lobbies to further their vested interest shall have to remove from their long-held positions because, since their emerging and encroachment of everything in the board, our cricket standard has come down miserably as they have been thrust players of their choice rather giving talented players their right. Mostly, the players are of personal choices of the influential, entrenched in selection committees or doing the job as coaches, drawing enviable salaries for devastating the team.

In a good test, it may suggested that the entry of such old stars should immediately be banned in the precinct of the board because they have nothing but politics to pedal their petty interest. So PCB ought to come out from the darkness and bring in professionals with modern techniques and skills from other cricket-playing nations in place of the local faces, whose only qualification is their past and ability to pull strings that may keep them in place. So far as the cricket board is concerned, it just embarks on a journey in search of coaches and other experts to boost our sagging cricket, for that it has sufficient funds, which I believe, if spent for the purpose will be the right thing in the right direction.

The Writer is a former first-class cricketer.

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