Why allow conflict of interest in PCB?
Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on September 7, 2018 in Corruption, Cricket, Daily Quote, My Views, Pakistan, Sports |
Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Imran Khan is leading by example in creating a culture of simplicity and austerity.
The new management of PCB also needs to review the whole culture of extravagance, which has now become a trade mark of the organisation, where the per head cost of one PCB’s dinner in Lahore was over Rs.40,000.
If the government ministers and top most senior officers will now be traveling by air in economy class and Corolla and Cultus cars for road travel in NAYA Pakistan, the PCB also should set an example of simplicity and austerity.
Earlier, it was reported that the famous and indispensable COO and CFO of the PCB got Toyota Fortuner vehicles approved for themselves, against entitlement of 1800 CC car.
Similarly, the salary, pay and other perks structure of PCB’s regular and contracted employees needs to be rationalised, so that some extra money is available for the men and women cricketers and for the improvements on the pathetic and humiliating conditions of dressing rooms, toilets and overall infrastructures directly related with the game.
In the not very distant past, chief selector and his team worked on honorary basis with the PCB, which job (chief selector of men’s team) is reportedly now costing PCB near-about Rs.2 Crore per annum (including pay, perks, traveling, awards and rewards) which in other words, is much higher remuneration than the PM, President, CJ or the COAS of Pakistan is getting.
Another question which must be immediately addressed is that why more than 14 players are sent with the team, which will be playing matches only few hours of plane flight away, from Pakistan. And why such a huge number of non playing contingent of PCB officials always go abroad, for joy rides and paid holidays?
It seems that in PCB, sending of maximum possible personnel on foreign joy rides, is the name of the game, for which now the time has come to put a full stop.
Coming back to our selectors, it seems their policy is to have no policy.
May be they think that their job of selection is just to pick and choose players having best numbers of averages. If that was the job of selectors, then what PCB needs is just a computer to compile a list of players, in order of their performances; and not this team of highly paid selectors.
Selectors are also not there to pick their relatives or favourite players or players having influence in the PCB, because their fathers are sitting on the BoG or are advisors of the chairman PCB.
Conflict of interest is the biggest reason of financial and intellectual corruption; and hats off to the BCCI for coming with a heavy hand on even most influential cricketing and non cricketing personalities of India, by appointing an ombudsman, to clean up the corruption mess in the BCCI.
Here in Pakistan, PCB’s contractual and regular employees were freely allowed to be associated with the PSL franchises, in one way or the other.
So much so that a very senior and high level PCB staff member was sitting in front, during the T-10 league players auction, as if, he was the owner of one of the teams.
Concluding, given below is the Philosophy and Criteria for Selection of Pakistani Team..!
Players selected for our national team are beyond the ordinary, or should be beyond the ordinary.
If there is no change in the attitude of the players, however; if there is no change in the selection process; if there is no change in the personality and quality of coaches to get the players to listen to them and to try and follow their instructions; and if there is no change in the quality of players coming out of the domestic competitions, the result will be the same – probably even worse.
In the modern day game of cricket the captain, coach and the chief selector are the three main pillars, absolutely responsible for the performance of the team.
Now, we are also witnessing the evolution of the fourth pillar i.e., the mentor of the team, generally called as the Team Director.
These four pillars must not select the team before they have chalked out the strategy of the matches to be played with their players.
All planning must have a clear objective and should be obviously based on the playing conditions, to be faced by the team.
After the finalisation of the strategy; the selection process should be based on the following principles:
– Select horses for courses.
– Be ruthless in team selection with emotions, relations and recommendations getting no place in the realm of the national prestige.
– Remove any iota of likes/dislikes and strictly adhere to the merit policy, not entertaining any undeserving recommendations, from any level.
– No physically unfit player should be selected at any cost.
– No player should be selected if he is not fitting in the mould of the earlier formulated strategy.
– All selected players must be clearly told their assigned roles.
Last but not the least, a word about our head coach, who somehow could not play a single Test match in his career. In his stint as our team’s head coach, it was observed in the past that selection of final eleven was faulty and he also admitted this fact (that he erred in selection of players) after our team’s Test series loss vs Sri Lanka in UAE, where we had never lost a Test series before that historic 2-0 series defeat; and in one innings of the Test match, our team got out on 114 runs, which was not even a decent score of a T20 innings.
In this regard, our old system of tour management committee, which consisted of manager, captain and coach, who were authorised (with manager as chairman of the tour selection committee) to select the playing eleven, should be restored, because now only coach (who has not played any Test cricket) and captain Sarfaraz (not a very experienced Test player) select the final playing eleven; and occasionally lose the match, before it was played.
In this regard, the person selected as the manager of the touring team must not be a person favoured for a joyride.
Rather, he should be a seasoned Test player and strict disciplinarian of very high integrity and possessing suitable corporate experience, as well.
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