PCB chief forms body of friends,employees
LAHORE: While the nation is disappointed over the recent poor show of the national team against Australia, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), instead of announcing an independent commission to evaluate the performance, formed a six-member committee comprising paid employees and close friends to assess the matter.
Losing both the Test (3-0) and ODI (5-0) series, Pakistan experienced a clean sweep at the hands of Australia. The boys have also been reported in different acts of indiscipline most important among which was all-rounder Shahid Afridis disgraceful act of biting the ball in order to tamper with it in the last one-dayer.
Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmals press statements, over taking decision by themselves to play or not, and grouping among the players are all the things that call for a big and fair post mortem, which can only be done by any independent commission, more suitably headed by a judge.
The PCB has formed an Inquiry Committee to evaluate the performance of the national team on the tour of Australia. The committee will look into the various aspects of team performance and make recommendations accordingly. PCB Chief Operating Officer (COO) Wasim Bari will head the committee comprising the following as members: Wazir Ali Khoja, Yawar Saeed, Haroon Rashid, Zakir Khan, Tafazzul Rizvi, a PCB press release stated on Monday.
Creating an eye-wash, the PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt appointed his own COO as head of the committee.
Director National Cricket Academy (NCA) Haroon Rashid, Director Cricket Operations Zakir Khan, official attorney Tafazzul Rizvi are all PCB employees who have been inducted in the committee.
Besides them, Yawar Saeed, who is considered an old friend of the chairman and who has previously enjoyed the post of national team manager during this tenure, along with Wazir Ali Khoja, one of the Governing Board members, are also included in the committee.
Khoja was made in-charge of a lavish cricket academy project in Karachi worth Rs100 million, which has also been criticized by Javed Miandad. Moreover, the committee has been given no time frame to submit its report.
In fact, the same reasons of grouping, player power and indiscipline have had a role in the teams bad performance for the many years now. Still no concrete steps were taken to do anything about them.
The national team could not win any Test or ODI series as almost four captains were changed after one controversy or the other during the last one year.