Why the Shahbaz Sharif’s Government Has Failed to Hold the PCB Accountable?

It was suggested on 13 Sep 22 (before team announcement by the PCB on 15 September 2022) that dashing and in form left handed opener Sharjeal Khan must be included in our World Cup T20 squad, but he was NOT considered to be suitable enough in the selection of the national squad by the worthy selectors, captain and the PCB, which is headed by a former Test and ODI player of Pakistan.

Now, last night Sindh’s team won the national T20 championship by defeating the KPK’s team in just 14.4 overs, courtesy a superb and smashing batting by their opener Sharjeal Khan who scored 53 in just 36 balls (4×4 and 6×4) at an strike rate of 147.22 with boundaries %age of 75.47 by scoring 40 of his 53 runs in boundaries.

Nowadays, the T20 style of game has radically changed and it is almost being played like baseball style, where every ball is supposed to be hit with maximum power, but our team (under the current archaic set up of the PCB which is mainly scared of losing the wickets) played like a Test match in the last Asia Cup final vs Sri Lankan team, where during the 6 overs (36 balls) power play period, we just scored 37 runs by also wasting 19 golden dot balls of the power play.

Here, we should not forget that earlier in the Asia Cup, this same Sri Lankan team was defeated by the Afghan team in just 10 overs by scoring 83 runs in the first six overs (36 balls) of the power play.

Now, one is wondering why after the Asia Cup the PCB didn’t sack the captain, all the coaches and the chief selector on this dismal performance of Pakistani team in the tournament.

One is also hugely surprised that why the government did not sack the current chairman PCB on the Asia Cup debacle, where our team absolutely failed to put up a fight during the tournament and particularly in the final match.

Here, we should remember that during the entire tournament, we only beat the Hong Kong’s team with convincing margin and in ALL the other matches we won during the tournament, the game could have gone either way.

Under the circumstances, if our team reaches the semi finals stage of the T20 World Cup, it will be a sort of a miracle.

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
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Lahore.