“Unpredictable” is the most suitable word for Pakistan cricket board, team and individuals. Nobody knows when PCB takes a U-turn on its decisions, when the team conquers world’s best team and kneels down to the weakest side, when a top class cricketer announces his retirement and all of a sudden, gets a chance to play at highest level without any prior preparation.
It happens only in Pakistan…
In a grown up system, administration and the players of the system are two important and essential parts who work within their domains to strengthen each other but they never interfere in each other’s domain. Both are answerable for their job and get rewards/punishment according to the performance. But, here in Pakistan, the case is altogether different. The members of cricket board influence cricket team and it affects performance and the member of cricket team can interfere to resolve any matter of the administration. That is how PCB hurts its performance and image.
Let’s have a look at the reasons in detail and try to reach a feasible solution to save Pakistan Cricket board from its imminent disaster.
The reason of this whole mess is quite understandable. The story begins, continues and ends with individuals’ power and absence of transparent system. From Abdul Fazal Mahmood to Muhammad Amir, Pakistan has been blessed with the talented performers and match winner players. Everyone has been contributing positively to bring it to the lime light. This land has produced world’s most creative cricketers. No one can deny that Imran Khan introduced the philosophy of “Fight Back” in modern cricket. Had Abdul Qadir not been performing exceptionally good in limited over games, the inclusion of spinners in one dayers and T20 would have still have been a dream. Doosra belongs to Saqlain and reverse swing enjoyed its glory from Waqar and Wasim’s hands. Such talented people can destroy any planning of the opponent, be it the cricket ground or the cricket board.
Imran Khan, a captain, always exceeded his limits and insisted to play with the team, he selected instead of going to the ground with the team of selection committee. In past, Inzamam ul Haq, Waqar Younus, Wasim Akram and most recently Shahid Afridi showed his concerns over the selected players.
And unlike Cricket Australia, no one could warn them, “Mr. Captain, this is not your job. The task you are assigned, starts from the boundary rope and ends when you cross it. Let the right people do their job”
It is not the end of the story; we are the eye-witness of number of revolutions against weak captains like Miandad, Wasim Akram, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf. And now, it is the turn of a person who is not part of the team, he is none other than, chairman cricket board, Mr. Ijaz Butt. A world class player could not get a certificate of representing national team because the chairman did not want him to join back and vice versa.
Such cases clearly portray poor management and absence of a transparent system which holds a reward and punishment theory and its strict adherence. We have seen few examples of punishing players but with zero investigation and one pen stroke, they were given a certificate to represent the country at highest level. They turned out to be “Mr. Clean” within no time. None of the officials has ever been punished for his poor performance and even if they were, the issues were never investigated.
Pakistan Cricket Board has its constitution which recommends elected professionals for every post but it is being run by the appointed people, the ones who are answerable to none.
The accountability part is missing everywhere. PCB needs to introduce a system where players and officials of the board could be asked the reason for their poor performance and could be punished for any misconduct.
It is true that PCB is not playing its role effectively. They are unable to handle issue at international level and they are failed to develop a system which could emerge professional cricketers from the scratch level.
The job description of selection committee should not only be defined but should also be adhered. They should be forced to visit every Grade I and Grade II match and to submit their report to chairman about their observations. The observations should not be based on score board, but should be based on the decision making of the playing sides and their attempts to make efforts to win the game.
Level I, II and III coaches should be groomed according to their skills and should be sent to Australia and England for further certifications.
They need to have back up of every player and need to design their job description. From Under 15 to the National Team, they should be sent for workshops on media handling and how to be a role model for their fans, how to avoid controversies and how to be mindful about the people with negative background.
Pakistan Cricket Board needs to understand the changes of outer world and role of the media. Pakistani and international media has been more influential than past. Same should be communicated to players and official. And if anyone disobeys the code of conduct, must be penalized by the board and no one should be allowed to go against that, even if it hurts there career. In the long run, it will help the system.
In a nutshell, if PCB really wants to avoid the expected disaster, it has to work on two things, one, its system by following reward and punishment theory and its strict adherence. Two, grooming the individuals to handle international media. This practice can develop PCB as a role model for rest of the world.
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