Whom to blame????

Thank god, the controversial England tour comes to an end. Although it ended with some new controversies and with some pending ones too, like Shoaib Akhtar's ball tempering allegations and Pakistan's three trio's spot fixing case by the Scotland Yard. Unlike others I take things in another manner, like it wasn't the case of players involved in each and everything (although they aren't angels aswell), but more of a lenient management of Pakistan Cricket. I bet if it were like the management at the time when conversion of BCCP to PCB, as a joint stock company at Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan aka SECP, Englishmen would had some respect and control over their language, unlike this tour where they were too blunt in their freedom of expression motto.

Plus credibility of ICC as a global game organizing body has been on stake although they've created a Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, but still they were taking actions more on tabloids instead on their on sources!!! I don't think ICC was so lame being a global governing body of cricket, and standard of their Umpiring Elite Panel should also came into scanner as whoever plays cricket would know this that a decision here and there can change the complexion of the match, and that too Afridi mentioned while talking to Pakistani media personnel, but I want to ask one thing to Afridi and to the Pakistan Cricket Board, that has it been a Joint Stock Company like it was earlier during the conversion from Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan to Pakistan Cricket Board, comprises of Board of Governors, and so being a joint stock company investment would have been generated easily, they didn't have invested a single bit or pieces on their properties, whether it comes to Stadiums, Stadium Colonies, telecasting of domestic matches on television, and standard of cricket in domestic tournaments, we try to compare ourselves with Australia most of the time, but can't we see that they have invested a lot in their domestic, hawk eye, hot spot and several other technologies are a norm in their domestic circuit, so that when a domestic player becomes international, he's not alien to these things, are things the same with Pakistan?

Are such technologies implied into our domestic tournaments? Afridi mentioned that use of Umpire Decision Review System aka UDRS, should be applied into ODIs as well, but are we accustomed to these things naturally? Even when we have opportunity to use them in test matches, we are not able to cash in the advantage majority of times, whether it was the 2009-10 Pakistan's tour to Australia or/and the recently concluded nPower Test Series against England, our youngsters and even the experienced campaigners aren't used to of this thing, so why brag about implementation of such thing. First improve your standard of domestic, with a lot of investment, as me being a Karachiiete I've not seen a up-gradation to the National Stadium of Karachi, last time when I saw it was just the installation of flood lights, and major upgrade was at the time when matches of 1996 CWC was to be played here, when I had to goto Aga Khan Hospital for some blood tests those days, and now I take that route to goto my office.

If I conclude this in a nutshell, the reasons we lost were;

• We lack knowledge of latest technologies
• Lenient management, who can't control 14 boys
• Lack of media personnel, which could deal the interactions with the British Media
• Missing of opportunities, which literally cost us the match(es)

Because I don't think anyone can divert you to wrong way, its just the the person can only exploit your weakness and so we must be ready for that instead of doing blaming here and there