Showing posts with label Asia Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asia Cup. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2024

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 - Current (realistic) State of Hosting Grounds

Gaddafi Stadium right now going through massive upgradation, although too little too late, because anything which remains during the tournament, would definitely bring disgrace to Pakistan as hosts, as currently this tournament is hybrid-ly hosted by Pakistan and the UAE (Dubai stadium to be precisely)

Country should have had come first instead of self

Champions Trophy is going to initiated from February 2025
but just view it is 28th December, 2024; and still NBCS is 
in grey structures
Because if country was priority, they would had initiated upgradation during Ramiz Raja tenure, instead they (the PCB) wasted massive time, (India is just taking advantage, but it should be confessed that India benefitted from us), I personally felt, Pakistan should have reacted the time (2021), things must have been much better instead of last minute haphazard upgradation, on the contrary, India at the time of 2011 Cricket World Cup, started renovation of their cricketing grounds at 2008, including Wankhede and Chennai, while Pakistan was hosting Asia Cup 2008, where after this tournament, hosting rights of Pakistan from ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 were taken away from Pakistan, but still Pakistan didn't learn from their mistakes.

We are good in pointing fingers

This is a case of generational critique that focuses on blaming others rather than learning from past mistakes and committing to continuous improvement. It highlights a tendency toward narcissism, which hinders the support and promotion of junior members in various contexts.


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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Congratulations to India, but this could have been us HAD we went towards a "country first" approach

Right now, while I am typing these lines, congratulations to India for winning ODI edition of Asia Cup 2023, but I was going through Twitter (now also known as X, I don't know what does 'X' means by the way), but there were some queries raised by Dr. Nauman Niaz, which I also felt, were the same queries raised into my own self, but I was thinking these were the thoughts of a mad-man, but similarly while I was going through his (@DrNaumanNiaz), I thought these were thoughts off a sensible individual (although I must admit, some of his pas actions were ridiculous)

  • Pakistan is out of the Asia Cup 2023, ending at 4 their worst position ever in tournament’s history.
  • Pakistan had issues with team selection, not picking right players for specialized positions & injuries doesn’t need any diagnosis.
  • We need to ask PCB a handful of questions.
    • 1. Agreeing to hybrid model with 9 matches going to Sri Lanka & their suggestion to host the tournament at UAE vetoed by SL, BD & India? Why did Pakistan like the ICC even in ACC stands isolated?
    • 2. If UAE’s weather was scorching why couldn’t of the matches played in Pakistan & India not agreeing to come could have had their share of the games organized in Sri Lanka?
    • 3. What did it reflect? Why were Pakistan management(s) dominated? Despite being the hosts & Full Member of the ICC, having equal representation at the ACC why did they play meek?
    • 4. Chairman Management Committee of the PCB intended to announce the Asia Cup 2023 during an exclusively organized ceremony at Lahore being the head of the host board.
    • Jay Shah President of the ACC trumped him by announcing it before he could?
    • 5. News was Zaka Ashraf having invited Jay Shah to Pakistan & that he accepted the invite was rebutted brazenly by President of the ACC? Why PCB kept mum & downplayed the rebuttal? One of them had lied, as assessed from the circumstantial evidence.
    • 6. Why host country’s name & year of the tournament was removed from the team kits contrary to the precedence? Where & when was the decision taken? Who took the decision? Was the decision being minute? Was it one ended or consensual? Why did PCB agree? What was the compulsion?
    • 7. Why did PCB agree to Pakistan team’s hectic traveling schedule? Hybrid or whatever why didn’t they had Pakistan matches barring the ones versus India hosted in the Country? Why have we had to act obedient? Why couldn’t we take it to the Executive Council of the ACC?
    • 8. Despite the worst weather conditions, PCB didn’t robustly try getting the venue changed from Colombo to Hambantota for the Super 4 matches despite being the host. Why couldn’t matches not involving India hosted in Pakistan? Shah took a unilateral decision without any consultations with ACC’s Executive Board.
    • 9. Worst Pakistan’ submissively agreed to a reserve day for their second match versus India on a flimsy excuse of catering for the broadcaster’s interests? Where were broadcaster’s interests in the first match which was rain ruined? Why was it done for a strong board? PCB, BCCSL & BCB accepted an unfair amendment in the playing conditions, equally unjust? This cost Pakistan their place in the finals.
    • 10. It hasn’t been Jay Shah, ACC or BCCI’s show of power, it’s the meekness & failure of the PCB to kneel down despite being equal in status?
    • 11. What one fails to understand is PCB’s behavior. ICC, a legislative & not a governing body like FIFA is toothless, dependent on all the Full Members for voting rights. It’s true BCCI is the richest & strongest board attracting maximum revenue.
    • Such is the depth of their market, the revenue generation, outlay, broadcasting deals & value, the entire fraternity has become dependent on them. What’s bothersome is the fact while all other boards and players are attracted to the Indian Premier League, brand with value of billions of dollars, Pakistan do not have the interest, isolated because of regional politics?
  • Then why should they act tamed? Jay Shah Head of the Commercial & Finance Committee of the ICC playing politics & power games has virtually assumed the administrative control.
  • This no way should deter Pakistan since their annual share of USD 34.5 million will remain intact, so will be their Full Membership, & rights to play?
  • For that a competent, visionary, corporate savvy & fluent in diplomacy man is required to head Pakistan’s cricket. Mr. Zaka Ashraf was hosting BCCI’s President & Vice President, the Secretary of the BCCI & ACC President was taking them head on?
  • So much still can be done without forfeiting our credibility.
My question would have been the same, do not blame Indians, we gave them a chance to hit us, otherwise had we someone likes of Mr. Ramiz Raja, we could have been in a better condition, instead of staging a toothless Asia Cup where in-spite of being the host for this years' Asia Cup, we didn't had a say into these matters!

Other than Asia Cup 2023

Pakistan is only going to host 2025 Champions Trophy, (which I feel, if this current management of Pakistan Cricket Board stays there, get ready to stage a toothless Champions trophy and making the mockery of whole Pakistani nation, just because of satisfaction of their own political motives), other than that, none of the ICC neither ACC multinational tournaments are going to be staged on Pakistani soil, what a shame! But we as Pakistanis like to be political beyond country's interests.

No need to blame India for all of this, because we as Pakistanis gave them chance to exploit us, like we say in Urdu language آ بیل مار مجھے aa bel maar mujhe; hence no need to divert attention towards external factors whereas we ourselves have been the main factor behind debacle, otherwise had they had guts to communicate their matter on higher level, just like Ramiz Raja did when NZ did the same what Jay Shah did, because like I mentioned earlier this era where we are living is the era of defamation. where sighting on focus is really a tough ask, and sorry to say the way our news media have been acting with loads of بیشرمی, just because their TRP mechanism, they have forgotten that they were supposed to be mouthpiece of Pakistan Cricket, but instead they have been acting like they are totally enemy of the country, why aren't they (the Pakistan media houses) were made accountable of their own actions?

If in return of this tournament, had we provided with ownership of September 2025 Asia Cup was granted to Pakistan, just like Sri Lanka did, where 2022 edition was granted to Sri Lanka but was hosted in UAE while having Sri Lanka written on Official logo of 2022 Asia Cup, but even then Sri Lanka was deemed to host the next edition on their own home soil, and ironically this time around, only four games were staged in the host country whereas nine games were hosted in a 'make-shift host country', which seems like hosting rights were DEFINITELY taken away from Pakistan for sure.

Just imagine, one game was hosted in Multan which accounts for a 0.077 of the whole 13 games being played, afterwards games were shifted to Pallekele, Kandy, which accounts for 0.23 of the whole tournament games, and similarly afterwards it was Lahore's turn, which also accounts for 0.23 of the total games played, whereas if Colombo's games are to be taken account, accounts for 0.46 percent of the games played in Asia Cup, 

If I compute with regards to country, 0.31 of the games were played on Pakistani soil which were all completed without a rain washout, on the contrary, while I was computing statistics for games played on Sri Lankan soil, 0.69 of the total games were washed-outly granted to Sri Lanka, because most anticipated game of Asia Cup 2023, Pakistan v India both times were washed out, similarly Pakistan v Sri Lanka game was also decided on D/L method, hence I am in no position to question the sanity of shifting whole tournament to Sri Lanka in a season where Sri Lanka is wholly inside Monsoon clouds, while South Africa, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, West Indies, Nepal visited and completed tours to Pakistan, even right now while I am writing these lines, South African women team is playing on Pakistani soil, so what kind of security threat India is talking about, we could support Indian team on Pakistani soil while wearing Indian Kit but could they support Pakistani team on Indian soil while wearing Pakistani Kits?

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Saturday, September 09, 2023

Indians doing no good to Pakistan Cricket - but why Pakistanis themselves not SINCERE to PAKISTAN???? We have been turned into MEGALOMENIAC.

Shamefully this is definitely a confession that we Pakistanis aren't loyal to Pakistan, this is a shameful aspect, that we have been treated as a nation (not CRICKET BOARD) whom everyone could trade-off their own assigned home soil multinational tournament to be shared on the lines of multiple host, just because we are and we have been so shameless that it doesn't matter to us at all, that what is country's identity and similarly what is country's ideology and similarly how could globally could it make us proud.

Asia Cup 2023 and the (hidden) politics played

First of all, I do not have a Chidya (چڑیا) who gives me in-depth analysis and similarly up to date information, all information which I have is that while merging all the dots and the news reports of those times when hybrid model was not proposed instead there were گرما گرمی between Pakistan Cricket Board and the Asian Cricket Council, there could have been an insulting aspect which occurred to me and I must confess, that it is equally possible that I might and could be wrong; but based on the evidences I gathered, it is quite possible that ACC (also known as Asian Cricket Council) initially during the time period of Mr. Ramiz Raja, granted Pakistan with hosting rights of Asia Cup, keeping in mind, like you guys I also got to know that hosting rights doesn't equally refer to as hosting games on home soil or home-turf, instead it means that games could be played anywhere but the gate-money and broadcasting rights benefits and similar aspects are granted to the host nation, most recent example has been Sri Lanka, while India and ACC convinced SLC that staging games on newly bankrupted Sri Lanka during those times is not possible, otherwise SLC was convinced that while she hosted Australia on their home turf, so why can't Asia Cup 2022, although SLC was willing to stage ASIA CUP on their premier grounds most notably RPS Colombo, but still ACC, just like they did this time to Pakistan, where they pressurized Pakistan Cricket Board to bring out Hybrid Model, where 4 of the games would be played in Multan and Lahore Respectively rest of the tournament is going to be played in Kandy and Colombo, in order to weep SLC's tears from last time when SHE was forced to stay her hosting Asia Cup in UAE, 
But my question has been; ہماری قومی غیرت قومی بے غیرتی میں کیسے تبدیل ہوئی? Didn't we get it, what kind of indirect communication message of conveyed to international and global audiences who doesn't know anything about Cricket, but when he or she'd be typing "Pakistan Cricket", he or she would be getting this result, but apart from that, he or she must be getting a taste to such controversial news related to Pakistan Cricket, where hosting rights were snatched from Pakistan, 
Just look at a scenario, how Indians were successfully able to ridicule Pakistan (not Pakistan Cricket), just like we have a local language idiom, گھر کا بھیدی لنکا ڈھائے we do not cater to take responsibility for respect and dignity (which I doubt now remains) because we as Muslims and as Pakistanis have ourselves to be blamed for all the catastrophe we have been encountering right now, because those پینڈوز ruling us right now; do not have vision of how to evolve as a nation, all they think about have been how to win next elections, and for which they have been utilizing media houses which was supposed to be rated at the fifth pillar to Pakistan; is doing no good to Pakistan.

Just look now what Indians are saying on their sporting channels, treating Pakistan as if it is equal to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan etc.

One of the most ridicule aspect I encountered while watching Sports Tak, was when Pakistan bowling reduced India to 266 all out at Kandy, but ہمیں دشمنوں کی ضرورت نہیں، ہمیں مارنے کے لئے اپنے ہی کافی ہیں such kind of معرکہ requires ample support and similarly appreciation from home media houses, but instead what I figured out was our sports channels were taking Indian journalists on air, (no offence) but I personally feel, that we require to develop taste, instead of ان کی ہاں میں ہاں اور نا میں نا ملاؤ this was being Pakistani ridicule towards me, I don't know why we dropped ourselves to this lower ebb.

My personal experience of the same thing شاہ سے ذیادہ شاہ کے وفادار 

A personal incident which I encountered (actually there are couple of them, trying to create an anonymity, because I am currently working at the place), 

One incident occurred, where a "show off lady", came to my cash counter and gave me her SSGC gas bill to pay, I took her utility bill, but while conducting her transaction, I noticed that she was actually using her mobile phone in front of the cash counter, I requested her to refrain using telephone in front of the cash counter, she brushed my plead, for which I called guard, and to tell her to refrain using mobile phone in front of the cash counter, but instead she went directly into the room of Branch Manager and complaint that this boy is not paying my utility bill and instead taunting me, although her paid utility bill was in her hand, but instead my BM started scolding me in front of her, as if I was the culprit, those who know about me, and even my manager operations, who directly supervises me, instead scold me for something totally opposite, کہ تم اتنی نرمی اور ملائم لحجے میں بات کرو گے تو لوگ تو ہلکا لیں گے، and here I was blamed and even scolded for something totally opposite.

Second incident occurred last Tuesday, 29th August, 2023, when it is literally not possible at all, because my practice have been I first count. then afterwards run machine and when machine counts 100, after that I wrap up the packet, means two times a single packet is counted and afterwards it is wrapped, so logically it is impossible, but my Branch Manager has a bad habit of acting himself as Pharoah of the branch, and sometimes I feel that I am his رعایا , anyways keeping long story short but on that particular day, a Rs. 500 packet was found 97 notes instead of 100, on that particular day, I had verbal riot with branch manager because he was insistent that I should admit my mistake which I didn't commit, but folks this is the Pakistani pathetic society we are living in, made in the name of Islam, مگر مسلمان کہیں موجود نہیں as a Muslim is supposed to be protector of the weaker, but here they try to stamp their authority.

Another incident which occurred, where I am being again marked as responsible for all of this, as there is a very bad habit at my branch, that I am being treated as dump-yard, because without taking into account that on cash counter, only single individual is allowed, but here in my case, all of them always engulfing me as if I am a rugby player, but because of which I encountered a mistake for which I am openly confessing that yes this was my mistake, because that incident occurred from my USER ID, where a dishonored cheque was mistakenly realized into customer's account, just because after 5 days of holidays of Eid ul Adha, there was loads of rush on the counter, and while conducting and completing those transactions, there were instances where my concentration was diverted, and during those diversions, this incident occurred, because I was made to pre-occupy with their issues, it is not an excuse, but they should also recognize the seriousness of the issue! 

These were some of the issues, I encountered during recent past, but these incidents are quite common all along Karachi, when we are not sincere with our own people, how could we sincere to Pakistan, this is shame, I never ever used to elaborate such things on my cricketing blog, but today I have been so much broken, seeing the society where I was born and raised, seeing it so shameless, this is pathetic helm of affairs, and I wish I get some amount into my pocket so that I could move out of Pakistan, because while living in Pakistan, I have learnt one thing that everyone who is in power wants to treat himself as a Pharoah, I do not want myself to turn into a Pharoah myself, hence for securing my future and myself, I am deciding to move outside Pakistan, although outside Pakistan it won't be a bed of roses like I am experiencing in Pakistan, but this is the risk I am willing to take, because the amount of risk involved I mentioned above is too much for me.

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