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Early Warning…!

Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on May 24, 2013 in My Views | Edit

Follies of the PCB Chief Selector

If yesterday’s Pakistani teams performance against Ireland is any indicator, we can easily foresee that our team has bright chances, of not crossing the hurdle of first round of the Champions Trophy.
In my opinion, the basic fault lies in the wrong selection of Imran Farhat (scored just 9 runs in 34 balls as an opener, which proves he was playing for his place and not for his team), Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal and Nasir Jamshed (20 runs in 39 balls).
Now, everyone can feel that how costly it is proving the non-selection of Ahmad Shahzad.
As I had told the Chairman PCB last year as well, that the Pakistan’s cricket team is NOT the father’s team of the chief selector, who already possesses the world record of 14 straight losses of the teams he selected; and then resigning ignominiously.
It is high time that Chairman PCB comes out of his personal likes and dislikes of certain faces and run the cricket board on professional lines, just like Air Marshall Nur Khan did, not only with cricket, but hockey as well.
Now, almost after two years Mr. Zaka Ashraf can’t hide behind the argument that he don’t interfere in the cricketing matters. In fact, this proves he is still very weak in professional matters and is forced to depend upon sycophants and dud staff.
I had also told the chairman PCB, which is on record, that the problem with the buck is, that it only stops at the top. And now after, the Champion’s Trophy the buck may just sit on him, forever.
The sure recipe for the failure of any top man is, that he is surrounded by the sycophants and merit doesn’t come near to him. As Martha Stewart said ““Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” A leader can only work with open mind, if he surrounds himself with people, on pure merit.