Thursday, October 28, 2010

Imran as PCB chairman?

Amidst the current fiasco of Pakistan cricket under Ijaz Butt’s totally failed administration there are calls in cricket circles that Imran Khan should step in and take over to turn the things around. I do not agree. He has done his job tremendously well when he played for Pakistan and now he should not indulge in the mess that is PCB. All he can do is guide PCB as an adviser but first we need sensible people in PCB set-up. His main argument to improve cricket in Pakistan is to introduce solely regional cricket rather than departmental cricket. He says people would take interest in Lahore vs Karachi match not in a PIA vs Habib Bank match. But he has strong opposition to this idea as almost all prominent former players oppose this including Miandad and Amir Sohail on the pretext that cricketers would be deprived of salaries and hence lose interest in the game all together. In my opinion he is right as he wants a revolutionary change in the cricket set-up which others cannot fathom. He is in active politics and he should continue playing this innings now as time is ripe for him to succeed here too.
The dream of seeing Imran Khan as PCB chief will materialize only if president Asif Ali Zardari appoints him. Why would zardari do so when Imran is his number one critic? Why would Imran work under a person as corrupt and incompetent as Zardari? Even if this miracle happens then will Imran be able to run PCB on his own terms? Answer to all these questions is ‘NO. Hence rather than calling for Imran Khan to become PCB chairman we should campaign for removal of current PCB set-up and replacement with a credible one .
I can only hope that PCB constitution is somehow implemented and we get an elected chairman with all the association heads as the members of the governing body with a monetary check and balance in place. In this way we can put our cricket on track. We must get rid of Ijaz Butt and ad-hoc system ASAP.

2 comments:

  1. 1- Written on October 22, 2010

    2- Published
    http://mag.pksearch.com/blog/imran-pcb-chairman

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  2. Published in SportPulse (Old Pksearch)
    - http://sportpulse.net/blog/imran-pcb-chairman

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