Loud Thinking

My letter titled “PCB: rolling the heads” published today by the daily “Dawn”.

PCB: rolling the heads
FROM THE NEWSPAPER — PUBLISHED about 3 hours ago

Link:- http://www.dawn.com/news/1174984/pcb-rolling-the-heads

WHATEVER happened during our matches of the World Cup was anything but cricket. Now as the chief executive of the country and the patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the nation expects from the prime minister to swiftly take action against the entire board for failing to come up to the expectation of Pakistanis.

More than the players, the responsibility of the World Cup debacle squarely falls on the PCB, which will never do its own accountability and nobody from the top will resign of his own volition. It will surely, with its public relations gimmickry, try to put the blame on others like the media, former chairmen and players and project itself as an innocent angel.

Thus the prime minister should dissolve the cricket board for its shameful World Cup performance, where Australia beat us in the 34th over, in a one-sided quarter-final; and also in all the World Cup matches our team failed to bat for a full 50 overs.

Our team created shameful world records for making minimum runs in the first 10 overs and our top four batsmen got out for just one run.

With the formation of an entirely new PCB, the fresh leadership of the board should be given only two assignments: purge the PCB of an inefficient staff and rebuild a new team on merit alone.

S. Nayyaruddin Ahmad
Lahore

Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2015