Politics politics...

Don't treat Pakistan Cricket and Pakistan as your home born thing!

Am I looking stupid enough to understand things without facts and figures? These fatigued Pakistan Cricket Board thinks so! It doesn't matter for these PCB guys either Pakistan looses a test match or win, all they counter is how much money they're generating from the off-shore home series in England. Literally! at the time when Pakistan was chasing a mammoth 440 runs target with 8 wickets already down, Chief Executive of Pakistan Cricket Board, Wasim Bari was exclaiming the amount of profits they're going to get from hosting a test series in England! What a rubbish! Was that the right time to show your excitement?

Secondly! on criticism on selection procedure, the selection committee head Mr. Mohsin Khan, whom I had great respect till he applied for this job, again yesterday fumed at the media personnel when asked about the biased attitude in selection of players! Literally he used such terms that he was ignored as he was a Karachiiete and they (whom he not mentioned) ignored him for two years and made him the 12th man who'd give water bottles to the players! With due respect Mr. Selector but did this justify the unfairness in selection? Ignoring top notch players who COULD play in England and have vast experience of it (remember when Pakistan last played in England, Mohammad Yousuf was by far the best among remaining 4 batsmen in the batting order), and you justify it by gathering sympathies by telling your own 20 30 years ago mis-happening with you! IS THAT JUSTIFIED?

Not selecting players on merit telling we've to search for new players, so first strengthen your domestic circuit like India and Sri Lanka did in the region and than introduce new talent in international arena else it'll backfire it! you can't blame media for not putting your mishap under the carpet...

3rdly Salman Butt the dashing Pakistani opener who has been in great form with the bat these days has been NOMINATED (mark my words not appointed) as the skipper for Pakistan's later tour of England after the conclusion of current Pakistan Australia test series! I was reading one of the comments on Cricinfo.com that he doesn't change his pajamas as Pakistani team changes its captain since 2009!

Keep in touch with regional team's captain, start with India. Mahindra Singh Dhoni and Shoaib Malik were appointed skippers at the same time for their countries for the ICC world T20 in South Africa 2007. Since than Mahindra Singh Dhoni has retained his captaincy although India didn't cruise to second round or the semis in later T20 tournaments played in England and West Indies respectively! On the other hand, After Shoaib Malik, We had Younus Khan (which I still presume was the best captain of all, he just had hard luck with players because a manager took the side of rebels), Mohammad Yousuf and now Shahid Afridi. We should admit and ashamed of the fact that we've wasted them...

I just wish this government and this cricket board both are to be dislodged as they both know nothing how to plan ahead! After seeing what happened in the first test, indication shown that Mr. Chairman Pakistan cricket board wants Mohammad Yousuf in the team which would play against England! How pathetic! Narrating the same words of our chairman of selectors that;

Play for the country but don't play with the country!

as I don't know whose playing with whom!

May god bless us all!