Re: Pakistan cricket news thread.

[Makaveli]

fcxx? Welcome back mate, long time!

[PlanetPakistan]

Salam Makaveli,

Good to see you too.

[PlanetPakistan]

http://thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=37499

They don't ban him for taking drugs yet they banned him because he pointed out how much the PCB sucks secondly how can you ban a player when he doesn't even have a contract?
I guess Naseem Ashraf(DNA) is just behaving like his friend Mushy(zero freedom of speech) so i guess this was expected.

[PlanetPakistan]

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/pakspin/a...alians.php#more


Dear Aussies,

We hear you swim with sharks yet you cannot walk the same earth as 160 million of your fellow men and women? Pakistan may be a country demonised by the world and dubbed a basket case by the world's media yet the ground reality is something very different.

Pakistan is a country struggling with its identity like many emerging countries--how to resolve Islam with the modern world?--but it is not a dangerous place, certainly not for international cricketers. Benazir Bhutto's death was a tragedy but a political assassination has no significance for Australians.

Many countries have toured Pakistan since your last refusal and all their players have returned home safely. Indeed, cricket is held in such esteem that it is equally loved by young women in designer shades and old men with unkempt beards. All the religious men I have ever met in Pakistan have loved cricket and relished the challenge of Australia.

Hence, your refusal seems strange to me, borne of a mental caricature of a country that bears no relationship with the "risks" that you will face. To me, this smacks of cultural imperialism, an unwillingness to properly understand and engage with the reality of a much poorer country.

Instead you wallow in the splendour of your rich world lifestyles. This whole approach is against the spirit of cricket, a game that has helped bridge social and political divisions and conflicts.

I fail to understand the risks you perceive you will be exposed to? As I have argued before, these risks are far smaller than driving a fast car, crossing the road, swimming with sharks or any of the extreme sports you are famous for indulging in. Cricketers have died or been seriously injured on the cricket field throughout the world while no cricketer has ever come to harm during Pakistan's "troubles".

Failing all that, if you do fear the bombers of Karachi more than the bombers of London, Colombo, or Mumbai then please stay at home but you should allow braver, hungrier, and more realistic cricketers to go in your place.

Surely the answer for Cricket Australia is to assemble a team of the willing and honour its commitment to international cricket? The alternative is an international game that becomes increasing divided by false fears into a game of the rich and poor. Cricket has always had greater significance than most sports, and your attitude does this great game a monumental disservice.

[PlanetPakistan]

So the public's opinion is out and Mushy's supporters have lost badly!

In other news



Nasim and his ‘friends’ likely to get a sack: PCB employees face uncertain future



Staff Report

LAHORE: The headquarters of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) here at the Gaddafi Stadium remained deserted on Wednesday as the officials were still on vacations even after the general elections that were held on Monday. There was no official present in the headquarters yesterday except PCB director administration Nadeem Akram.

Sources close to the PCB told Daily Times that most of the board employees are facing uncertain future after the polls. “Changes are imminent in the PCB as soon as the new government is formed. PCB chief Nasim Ashraf and his ‘friends’ are likely to get a sack. They have ruined Pakistan cricket and their future seems
bleak,” sources added.

It is pertinent to mention that Nasim had hired more than 200 persons on lucrative salaries since his appointment as the head of the PCB. “Nasim has a contract with the PCB till 2010. But his position is in danger after the outcome of the general elections. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, who himself is an avid cricket fane and was the chairman of the 1996 World Cup organising committee, is likely to replace the PCB chairman,” they added. A couple of weeks back PCB’s chief finance officer Hasan Ahmad had resigned when he was asked questions about the financial matters during the board’s governing body meeting in Karachi. Sources said accountability of the present officials should be carried out.

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Corruption, corruption, corruption and ironically these corrupt people are being replaced by Asif Ali Zardari.

[*Buckaroo*]

Corruption, corruption, corruption and ironically these corrupt people are being replaced by Asif Ali Zardari.

keep hope .. people change over time you know.

[PlanetPakistan]

Corruption, corruption, corruption and ironically these corrupt people are being replaced by Asif Ali Zardari.

keep hope .. people change over time you know.

yeah sure

[Josh Carney]

It is good that Mushy has been put into place and hopefully impeached in the near future. However the burning issue of fundamentalism and the opposition to the US war will not go away and will continue to trouble whoever is in power.

[The One]

what a cheerful thread. this might in fact be pakistan's best chance to actually get a proper democracy going. the people have given an overwhelming mandate against military rule and the present chief seems to be pulling the military out of civil posts. if they can break the back of pakistan's biggest problem, feudalism, they will do well. the fact that religious parties won only 3 seats out of 270-odd should tell you something

if there are no land reforms in the next few years expect the same episode to repeat itself again

[SG]

Miandad, Moin lash out at BCCI for refusing one-day series

KARACHI, Feb 26: Former Pakistan captains Javed Miandad and Moin Khan have lashed out at the BCCI for refusing to play a three-ODI series which would have filled the gap created by Australia’s decision to reduce the duration of their scheduled March-April tour.

The duo felt the Indian response was the result of the blatant manner in which the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had been towing their line on various issues including the controversial Indian Cricket League (ICL) and Indian Premier League (IPL) standoff.

“If the Indians wanted to help us out they could have come for a week. As it is they could even have rested some of their main players and tried out some of the players who have not been picked in the squad for the series in Australia,” Miandad said.

“But India has never really helped Pakistan cricket when most necessary,” he added.

Miandad said the Indians, by agreeing to come to Pakistan, could have sent a positive message to even Australia to tour Pakistan.

BCCI President Sharad Pawar on Sunday cited the need for the Indian players to take a break of at least 10 days between their current engagement in Australia and the next home series against South Africa as the reason for the inability to visit Pakistan next month.

However, Miandad felt India would have had enough break to spare a week in Pakistan. “They could have still rested their players even after undertaking a short tour to Lahore.”

Miandad said the PCB had been towing the Indian board’s line on ICL and IPL and had taken sides by banning the players who had signed up for the ICL.

“The ICL is purely an issue hurting the Indian board. And Pakistan has been in the forefront of doing what they want,” he said.

Moin also criticised the PCB for making an announcement about the Indian series even before it was confirmed.

“I don’t understand why make an announcement about the proposal before it was confirmed. It also sent out a wrong message to the Australians and the Indians’ refusal to help would only create more problems for us,” he explained.

“If the Indians wanted to repay Pakistan for the support they have given on the ICL this was the time to do it. Unfortunately, they backed out and it is a good lesson for our cricket officials not to follow the Indians blindly and look at our own interests at the world forum,” he added.—Agencies

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Are these 2 for real?

[PlanetPakistan]

PCB is being very very harsh!


PCB is really after players' livelihood.
Rana Navid & Mushtaq Ahmed lose their Dept. job.
Chance of playing 1st class cricket & County cricket is gone.

Karachi (Staff Reporter):
PCB has decided to make sure that Rana Navid and Mushtaq Ahmed don't get to play County Cricket this season. It is learned that PCB will not issue NOCs (required by ECB/counties) for the players. PCB COO Shafqat Naghmi has said that PCB has made a policy to not issue NOCs to ICL contracted players. He said that we made this policy after these players signed with ICL. We had issued NOC to Mushtaq but we are going to cancel our NOC after he signed with ICL.
He also said that Rana Navid e-mailed him asking for NOC but why should he issued NOC when he is not contracted with PCB and he is also not allowed to play in Pakistan.

Rana Navid on the other hand, said that in spite of threats from PCB, he'll be leaving for India on Friday to take part in ICL matches. PCB is totally unfair to me. I was injured and bed ridden for 4 month but nobody from PCB bother to call me ans ask how I was doing. Where was PCB then? I hope that ICC revise its policy towards ICL contracted players.

ICL players are facing big resistance from PCB. It has banned all 16 players from playing international and domestic cricket. Their departmental jobs have been terminated. PCB has also contacted Yorkshire and Sussex to have those team terminate Rana Navid and Mushtaq's contracts.

ICL players have alleged that PCB is really after their livlihood and trying to make them bankrupt whereas it PCB's job to provide livlihood to the players. They also believe that PCB is treating them to please BCCI.

PCB director operations Zakir Khan has confirmed that PCB has written letter to Sussex and Yorkshire that these two players don't have any contract with PCB, they can't play in domestic cricket and PCB will NOT be issuing them NOC.

[PlanetPakistan]

Finally there is something said against the captain



KARACHI: Top Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials have taken serious note of the fact that groundsmen shaved off the Jinnah Stadium pitch in Sialkot on the insistence of Punjab captain Shoaib Malik for the under-progress Pentangular Cup match against Balochistan.

According to sources, PCB officials are planning to carry out an inquiry into complaints that what was supposed to be a lively track was transformed overnight into a batsmen’s paradise after Malik ordered for the grass to be removed a day before the start of the four-day match. The Jinnah Stadium is the home ground of the Sialkot-born Pakistan captain.

The Punjab batsmen have so far enjoyed a run-fest in the match with Misbah-ul-Haq getting a double century and Salman Butt and Nasir Jamshed scoring centuries. They piled up 723-4 declared on Friday.The Sialkot wicket is in sharp contract to the pitches being prepared for the event’s matches in Karachi. Here, PCB officials have been insisting on green tracks where the pacers have so far been very useful.

The PCB officials had issues instructions that all Pentangular Cup games would be played on lively tracks after the tournament’s opening match in Lahore ended up as a flop because of a flat track at the Gaddafi Stadium last month. But it seems that not everybody is willing to listen.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=100191

[Chandan]

What is the latest news about Australia touring Pak or not? Indian media is saying that CA has cancelled the tour, but I didn't see this news in Australian papers.

Do you have the latest news?

[Makaveli]

Going by all the comments they have been making over the months it's unlikely they will tour.

[leg glancer]

This is ridiculous. If India can tour Pakistan without any hassle, then why not Australia?

And Miandad's lashing out at the BCCI for India refusing to play a one day series is equally laughable given the cramped nature of India's schedule. What purpose would a second string side serve anyway?

[JGK]

The BCCI have paid Aust a fair bit of money not to tour so their stars can be available for IPL.

[filosofee]

The BCCI have paid Aust a fair bit of money not to tour so their stars can be available for IPL.

Security in Pakistan is the issue, surely!

[JGK]

Security in Pak is the excuse so CA can pull out without being sued.

[filosofee]

Security in Pak is the excuse so CA can pull out without being sued.

That's funny, Aus team have been given more assurances than Benabag did.

[Chandan]

The BCCI have paid Aust a fair bit of money not to tour so their stars can be available for IPL.

Tell me that you are joking, JGK! BCCI giving money to CA? And that too just to make their stars available? Australia must be pulling out of WI tour as well then, because isn't the tour game starting on 16th May in WI, which means Australia will have to reach WI before that?

In any case, current Australian players are not going to be available in the final stages. So I just can't can't imagine BCCI giving CA money to pull out from one tour!

[PlanetPakistan]

After thinking about this issue for a while i think it will be better if AUS(and NZ,ENG) refuse to come to PAK. A country where the president orders the army to kill its own people doesn't deserve any favors from others. I hope little things like the cricket board going bankrupt will eventually add up to a point where the army is forced to abandon this so called war on terrorism in Northern Waziristan.

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