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It pains Pakistani Cricket lovers so much when they see and ponder the plight of their cricketing heroes and administration.

Lack of discipline, responsibility, management, leadership and direction is pandemic. Blunders are made in board’s administration and team selection only to be repeated again and again on end without learning any lessons.

Nothing on the horizon suggests that corrective measures are coming. If any action has been taken previously, if at all, then it is to shove the dirt under the rug or at best merely a quick-fix to get out of current quagmire only to hand reigns over to the future administration to fall in the next one.

For all intents and purposes, it must be realized that there will be no fast or easy way out of this situation. Though calls for major shake-up/overhaul of PCB have been made, however justified, these should be carefully scrutinized before blindly forging ahead as such actions lack steadiness and thus have failed to yield anything substantial in the past.


Pakistan Cricket Board

The institution itself is core to the troubles that are plaguing Pakistani Cricket and is in a serious need of massive reformation. Since 1999 the PCB has been run on an ad-hoc basis (which has sadly been the case for most of its fractured history) instead of having a constitution-based system to govern its internal affairs.

PCB should also be independent of political control, i.e. Ministry of Sports and all its governing representatives should be elected and not nominated, a process which favors cronyism. But the Ministry does not want to make the PCB independent and intends to keep it under government control.

At present, President of Pakistan, Patron of PCB, appoints Chairman which takes out all the domestic structure from the equation as there is no provision for elections. District cricket associations should have electoral rights to elect the chairman in a democratic way.

There should be an accountability process for officials which should apply to paid officials but presently is not possible due to honorary appointees. There have been rules proposed to enable PCB to launch criminal and legal proceedings is case any misuse of power and money happens. One can only hope that this move materializes.

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