Umar Akmal, when you do not nip-in-the-bud on given time

Although, Umar Akmal is surely responsible for whatever the trouble he's in, but the fact is, it requires two hands to create a clap.

Management requires to be proactive

This is the main bone of contention because whoever reading this from anywhere and from any part of the world, would surely agree with me that characters like Umar Akmal are in every part of the cricketing world, it is just the matter of how the cricket board of that country tackles with them.

List of some modern-day cricketers creating troubles for the Cricket Boards

Like I mentioned above, the cricket fraternity is filled with cricketers creating trouble for their respective cricket boards, but their case studies show that it is because of the prompt actions amid their cricket boards, that we rate them as current modern-day likable.

Ricky Ponting

Also known as Punter, furthermore he has been associated with Australia, Antigua Hawksbills, ICC World XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Somerset, Surrey, Tasmania. While his blade has sparkled, his stewardship is pock-marked by three Ashes defeats - two in England and one at home - and stumbles to South Africa and India.

As a batsman the only debate is where to rank him in the high reaches of the game's greatest run-makers. Acclaimed by Academy coach Rod Marsh as the best teenage batsman he had ever seen, Ponting began with Tasmania at 17 and Australia at 20 and was given out unluckily for 96 on his Test debut. There were some teething problems, including a public admission of an alcohol problem, but the longer he went on the more he matured, building up records and runs.

But the fact is, he was a reckless darling of Australian cricket, but the reality is their cricket board managed him accordingly;

Being alcoholic

In early 1999, Ricky Ponting suffered a major blow, as he was involved in a fight within a night club that left him unhanded, in return he was subsequently suspended for three matches for this controversial behavior. For the first time, his love of gambling makes headlines for all the wrong reasons.

A foul-mouthed captain

The bitter loss for Ponting was so humiliating that he could not control his anger. He famously lost his cool, known as a controversial incident in recent days when he was run out by substitute fielder Gary Pert in the fourth Test against England. England coach Duncan Fletcher was fined 75% of the match fee as soon as he left the pitch at Trent Bridge.

Virat Kohli

During his early days, he was flamboyant and used to fight with his fellow cricketers in the team, therefore it was a hard time for even BCCI to rehabilitate him, because had BCCI didn't take respective actions to safeguard a cricketer who is fearless, and always ready to take challenges on his shoulders, because being a Pakistani, I am not going to forget the innings of VK even when I'd be in my 60s when in an Asia Cup game, he chased a massive target placed by Pakistan and won India an unbelievable ODI game.

Therefore getting back to the topic

The fault lies with both Umar Akmal and the cricketing board which is Pakistan Cricket Board (The PCB), where not only Umar Akmal but the Cricket Board is equally responsible and again this is not a contradiction of my above arguments where I have shown my eagerness in giving punishments to the players who plays with the name of the country, but my additional step from this argument is that who is going to implement the intention for eradicating the trust of cricket game lovers, having additional players in support of the players already performing, because monopoly is not good for the game, and if we praise a player like a god, it is going to show light for those players that they are invincibles, whose responsibility was that to ensure monopoly doesn't sustain? Whose responsibility was to ensure to have a rehabilitation program for safeguarding the interest of the country and the country's cricket board?

No sympathies for Umar Akmal but he has been scapegoated!

Again I have to repeat, No sympathies for a drama queen like Umar Akmal who thought to be famous is to do controversial and objectional things on the social media, everyone likes seeking attention, but in seeking attention, one must not cross his limits set by the seniors, and it is the responsibility of the management to make sure everything goes in sync with the organization, in the present scenario is PCB, therefore Umar Akmal is the main culprit but the management is equally responsible for not taking timely actions to eradicate the repercussions.

Repetitive incidents in the recent past

Repetitive incidents in the recent past have definitely exposed the loopholes of the cricket board because this is the responsibility of the cricket board not to have a repetitive instance multiple times.

Not agreeing with Shoaib Akhtar

This again needs to be clarified, that I am not agreeing as while I am critical of the cricket board but at least I am not biased as Shoaib Akhtar just because he had displeased incidents with the PCB and he had grudges toward them, for which he exploited because he has been using Umar Akmal's shoulders to aim his own proposed plans. This is a national issue as Pakistan's name is being dirtied amid Umar Akmal punishment and therefore we need to use our words sensibly because one wrong word in this social media era can make a mockery of the whole nation within minutes. So if someone has a wide fan-club as Shoaib Akhtar needs to behave with empathy and should sideline his personal grudges at the side and be neutral on his comments because that shows the stature of a person.

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Mr. Shoaib 'Bash' Akhtar Sahab

Below are the points I am gonna debate on;

• Umar Akmal is the latest Pakistani player to be banned on the corruption charges

  This is a shame, because one must remember the fact that he (Umar Akmal) and Virat Kohli debuted in the same timeline, one end up being one of the greatest chasers of modern day cricket, and otherwise the other debutant end up being part of different controversies, and instead of concentrating on his career and the lucky opportunity of representing the country which other fellow players with him always dreamed of, but honestly in my own perspective, he was a great player but because of his childish attitude, he ruined the opportunity he got, for which there is none to blame, he was a self-detonating time bomb which actually exploded few hours ago.

• Akmal had failed to report spot-fixing approaches made to him during the recent edition of the Pakistan Super League-5

  Again I would have to continue with above mentioned argument, that because of the above mentioned attitude and behavioral problem in his genes, there's none to blame except himself, because initially we must take account of the fact that since Hansie Cronje debacle, the cricketing world/fraternity has been choosy and cautious of such approaches, and hence it is a raising of eye brows act that so much discrepancy in his actions that once he informed the PCB of the approach but another instance where such approach was made again, he didn't take it seriously and took casual attitude towards it in the second time around.

• Akhtar slammed the PCB and its legal department for their failure to handle the issue of match-fixing

  Here I am gonna oppose Mr. Shoaib Akhtar on diverting/converting/plagiarizing the whole societal issue into a lawsuit issue, which is under no circumstances relates to the present circumstances, because if Mr. Shoaib Akhtar recalls, he himself has been DEPENDENT on/of fan-support himself, which is not a bad thing but this is a bad thing that you end up diverting the attention from society who is basically responsible for this debacle, because honestly if our society and fans had acted sensibly, and had not pampered him and other cricketers post 1992 era, players would also had not crossed lines, even if we go through Islamic Studies as well, there have been restrictions/limitations on us because if otherwise, it would definitely create a catastrophe and a quick detonation of the time-bomb, because the society needs to be self accountable of their own acts before pointing fingers on others.
  Hence, instead of the legal department, it is the fault of the SOCIETY, because like we quote, You reap what you sow hence he himself was found saying that chiefs of the cricket board were fans of those tainted cricketers, but my say is even if the chiefs were, why the society let it be like that? Why players ended up saying ہم عوام کی خواہش پر کھیلیں گے like that? Means the fault lies more with the society because it were the masses who accepted them. So when society is the main culprit, you still want to blame the legal department of PCB and place all the mess under the carpet? This is a shame for you Mr. Shoaib 'Bash' Akhtar sahab.

  You should remember one thing

  Proud nations do place country's pride at front, and sportsmen are their reflections on global scale, and since you have retired from competitive cricket, you have been a bash-boy of the cricketing fraternity and have been acting the 'next' Veena Malik, and acting sycophantic towards Indians instead of being logical like Kapil Dev when Vikrant Gupta took him online for an interview, and placed your point of view of staging an exhibition game for Corona Victims, he said if they required money, we should give them as we don't require, instead I would had wished this amount would have been distributed to the educational concerns as our children are the victims as they have been void of their study rights. 
  This shows and exposes the concerns of a reply from an educated person versus an emotional and a person who place country's dignity on global grounds, because loving the country is one thing, but representing the love for your country on international ground is something else, SA might be a more patriotic person from the heart but failed miserably in representing the respect, dignity, concerns and pride of the nation on international grounds.

  Sachin's birthday

  Because of your sycophantic attitude towards Indians (no offense to Indians), even Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar didn't bother to respond to your birthday tweet, otherwise just imagine if instead, it was by Wasim Akram or even by Imran Khan, had he not respond? He even respond to Brett Lee, so this is a clear indication where you stand on the international grounds, so therefore instead of talking TIT-FOR-TATS, try to take courses and classes from intellectuals on how to talk and how to hit-the-pot-when-it-is-hot strategy instead of being a reckless driver on an expressway. Enough said...

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Ramiz Raja on Umar Akmal match fixing

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Akmal... Akmal... Umar Akmal... Did it again

I am not here to already ridiculed Middle Akmal of his own wrong doing, because he has already been ridiculed, trolled and memed at Twitter therefore I am going to have some thing more soberly and would try my level best not to troll him any more than what he has been already.

A bullet train who took a complete U-turn at the wrong time

There is an Urdu saying which definitely suits the current scenario and whom alternative idiom not available in English transliterations;

ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پر دم نکلے

بہت نکلے میرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے

 ؒLike mentioned on #ESPNcricinfo, Umar Akmal's troubled cricket career has hit its biggest roadblock yet, with the PCB handing him a ban from all representative cricket for three years after he pleaded guilty to failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year's PSL.
Furthermore, ESPNcricinfo also end up saying; Umar Akmal's troubled cricket career has hit its biggest roadblock yet, with the PCB handing him a ban from all representative cricket for three years after he pleaded guilty to failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year's PSL.

This is a shame for us as Pakistanis

Because ironically few hours ago, Veteran Cricketer Salim Malik also pleaded guilty and accepted his faults and in repercussions asked for the softer corner like Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Amir did, which brings to me to my next point as follows.

Fear of being accused

This is another aspect which either leads us otherwise detracts us whenever we try to indulge in such things, have we forgotten the universal law, that there is light at the end of the tunnel? Than how come these players indulge themselves while being on the privileged end, act so naive and sans view the bigger and the broader picture while not playing with their careers? This thing only occurs when fear of being accused is placed on the desktop instead keeping it under the carpet and thinking the carpet will definitely eat up all the mess they have hidden inside, which brings me to my next point.

Negligence of the management

Sorry to say but the reality and the fact is, this is a ridiculous thought the players solely are responsible for the mess and management is under the curtains and on the elite panel, one must question the management, here it is the PCB, that how come such thing occur under your nose? It definitely means there are strata within the PCB covering all this up, because of which this mess converted into a volcano and now placing havoc on the whole nation.

Globally and the National Pride?

Can it be assured that after this is done;

1. Our media acts in favour of the country
2. Umar Akmal sans represent in Pakistan colours/blazer?
3. Critically analyze the back-management related to such matters.
4. Articles being written on the news media regarding heavy finement and condemnation on such acts so that our coming generations became aware of it and hence avoid risking their rainbow careers into blacks?
5. Include the condemnation into curriculum because it is heavily required to encode these aspects as bad things in the minds of the younger ones
6. Proper implementation of strict SOP's must be placed in order to avoid repeating such instances in future, because the whole nation pride is dependent on it when we're on the international scale.
7. Make UA a sign of shame for future generation, that how a rising star turned south within a decade because of his stupidity.

If above mentioned are assured, only afterwards I am gonna appreciate the management of PCB, otherwise it is like again we say in Urdu, تھوک پالش کرنا۔

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The PCB doing something right

Post 2023 era for Pakistan Cricket

Pakistan expecting to bid for 3 major ICC events after this current contract ends where major FTP contracts are again going to be allocated to the highest bidders, Pakistan Cricket Board expecting they might be able to go for tournaments like U19, etc. which is something positive because Pakistan if hosts an ICC tournament, will going to be one after the 1996 Cricket world Cup, furthermore Pakistan has not hosted any ICC tournament like WT20 and CT which almost all cricketing world has hosted in their own backyards, therefore a cricket maniac country like Pakistan should also host some ICC events, which is surely going to benefit the cricket and the cricket vicinity in the country.

List of players who were plagiarized with the match/spot fixing
allegations.

Pakistan Cricket Board is going to grip harder the fixers

When I am using the word fixers, it includes both match and spot fixing and like we use a term in Urdu Language, سزا کا خوف which mean fear of the allegation, which is harder in the UK and the Australia compared to countries in the South Asian region, but Pakistan doing the right thing because it has been a norm when we've lost precious players because they were involved in the illegal activities, but the main thing is why we are mixing forgiveness with inclusion in the national team, because of this ACT of kindness, it has made the tainted players being getting accustomed of involving into such activities, the recent victim is being Umar Akmal, where he was convicted and was taken aback a day before the PSL 5 ceremony, which is a shame for the whole country because it has been a norm in Pakistan cricket since 2000s and now it has been almost 20 years when Hansie Cronje, Muhammad Azharuddin, Gibbs, Wasim Akram etc were called in match fixing allegations, South Africa and Australia have researched well and here instead still we have still being "fighting" with this contagion.

The problem lies with the masses

Not downgrading my nation but the reality is we require to acknowledge the flaws in ourselves instead of showing swiftness in allegating and pointing fingers on others, and thinking it as a sign of confidence, where in the world is the grace, sophistication, acceptance and mature temperament we should have shown instead of this immature attitude where we are always ready to degrade our fellow countrymen?

Taking ques from neighbours might help

As neighbouring country have zero-tolerance on these aspects and because of which they have able to gain the world-confidence in their favours, because in this way the world has shown confidence in that country's products and productions.

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