Cricket Crisis – Final nail is about to be hammered into the coffin

Cricket Crisis – Final nail is about to be hammered into the coffin

A Passionate Appeal to the PM Pakistan.

Dear Mr. Prime minister & The Patron in Chief PCB

AoA.

Sir,

At the outset, let me state that we are absolutely confident that you as the Prime Minister and the CEO of the country, will never allow any relations or friendship with you, come in way of the national interest, which is even enshrined in the oath, as well.

There is no shame in losing a match, but abject surrender is absolutely unacceptable.

Someone, somewhere, has to be held accountable for the disgraceful manner, in which Pakistan’s cricket team was thrashed by the West Indies team, in the super ten round’s last match of the T20 World Cup 2014. However, the entire nation is shocked with the decisions of the PCB chairman, which he has taken in the aftermath of the Dhaka debacle as below.

1. The entire team management and the T20 team’s captain, who were responsible for the shameful performance, in the first instance were relieved of their duties, immediately upon their arrival in Pakistan, not in good faith, but as a PR exercise, to cool down the public anger.

2. Just after the tempers cooled, the chairman PCB struck with a vengeance and recalled and rehired the entire incompetent team management personnel, with better positions and even the top nincompoop of them all Mr. Moin Khan, was rewarded for his failures, with a two years contract for double positions of the chief selector and the team manager.
Mr. Prime Minister, who else knows better than you that nowhere in the cricketing world, the post of manager has been held by the chief selector; for the very simple reason that the chief selector, is required to spend all his time in the country, to hunt the talent. How can this job be done in a proper manner, when the chief selector will be touring for weeks and months, with the team as a manager?
Sir, just for your information, recently the Indian cricket board has imposed a complete ban on the selectors, from going on foreign tours, with the team.

3. On top of all the wrong decisions, it has been reported that now the chairman PCB has decided to give a final death blow to the Pakistan cricket, by planning to close the departmental teams and ending the departmental competitions. This act will go down in the history, as the last nail hammered in the coffin of the Pakistan’s cricket.
As such, you are requested to personally intervene in the matter and direct the PCB to refrain from killing the departmental cricket in the country, which was the brain child of the legendary late Abdul Hafeez Kardar; and has always been the factory for producing super stars of Pakistan: to name a few of them Imran Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Wasim Bari and Javed Miandad, etc etc. Almost all and 100% renowned Pakistani cricketers have been the product of this system.
Mr. Prime Minister, just to pre-inform you that PCB will never admit that they are planning to disband the departmental cricket. In fact, PCB has apparently planned to obtain your approval in a disguised sugar coated scheme, wherein, it may be put up to you that departments will be merged with regions, to support the regional teams. Which in other words, will clearly mean that there will be no separate departmental teams.
Further, it is understood that the above sinister scheme has not even been approved by the Interim Management Committee of the PCB. In any case, this PCB management, is for an interim period and such basic and structural changes can only be made by a properly elected board. As such, even if this sinister plan is bulldozed, it may easily face litigation hurdles. Moreover, this scheme is a sure shot recipe for the joblessness on a mass level, of all the cricketers employed by the departments.

4. Coming back to the Dhaka debacle, we should also not forget that in the past, our team never performed so badly; and that for the first time in the history of the T20 World Cup, we could not even enter the semi finals, of the T20 World Cup tournament.

Now, after the miserable failure of the team, accountability is the need of the hour and the buck is sitting on your favourite Mr. Najam Sethi, who must be sacked IMMEDIATELY, for not just the defeat, but also for turning the Pakistani cricket team to a club level team, so that the whole nation knows, without any doubt that our Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, is a man of pure merit, and SIFARISH, friendship or relations will not come in his way, as far as the national interest is concerned.

We also know that you always believe in putting right man at the right job.

5. Sir, now your own image is at stake and Mr. Najam Sethi, who failed abysmally, as chairman PCB and knows nothing about cricket, must not be allowed to hide behind you.

Best regards,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Lahore.

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