Asia Cup 2020 update

Expected venue of Asia Cup 2020 - T20 event

It is expected that Bangladesh is the supposed venue despite of the UAE because of the financial and crowd outcome, especially when the region is highly effected with the ongoing pandemic, so Bangladesh is best option.

What is my opinion on relocation of Asia Cup 2020?

I say instead of the UAE, Bangladesh is going to be better selection of Venue, because T20 tournament is all known for its venues and crowd, where we can't continuously assure continuous crowd involvement in UAE, therefore a good choice for staging Asia Cup in Bangladesh, but personally if it had happened in Pakistan, it could had done much good for the game and could have had improved the perspective of Pakistan cricket globally.

Listening to other YouTube Vloggers' opinions on the teams

I disagree with their speculated teams because they have been straight forward and shortsighted in their speculated teams, because all their teams are having the cream of PSL 2020 but they were not emphasizing on bench-strength, otherwise when I took note of the other cricket boards' team squads, they usually start with a blue-print plan that this is how we're going to plan this particular series where they take note of the country their teams' are currently touring, if their team is winning the series, this is going to be the squad which is generally a variable i.e. not fixed. Otherwise here in Pakistan, our teams' are being decided on the basis of fans' opinion which is another new in the world, instead of strategically decide and divide players' resource with respect difference aspects like position the team is playing etc. which is not taken into consideration, because of which most of the time the find we discover from PSL or from an international venture, but after sometimes let's say 6 months at least, that player is banished and therefore 3 4 times a year we're in continuous choreographed loop of searching for the replacement, instead of planning that not to overuse a particular player or reuse the used ammu like Kamran Akmal who's in his late 30s to advocate for the re-return.

Our so called Vloggers have short sight and therefore no broader perspective

Vloggers' should use their laptops to compile accumulated data and some human intelligence instead of getting emotional, think that winning is second thing, sustaining the momentum is and should be the main aspect, when players are going to re-change every now and than is going to sport no good for the country which generated players like Saeed Anwar, Aamir Sohail, Inzamam ul Haq, Ijaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq and the two W's, because they were continued in the longer run, but here our Vlogger's and YouTube video channel content creators decide the fate of Pakistan national cricket team, or is it our selection committee taking tips from them? I don't know nor I want to know because I do not count myself with them, this is my own platform where all what I write is my on point of view and is nowhere to be deemed as undue pressurizing.

Think about the country first

Thinking about the country means sustaining the momentum instead of changing players and watching bang bang bash players who're not able to SUSTAIN their performance in longer run unlike Aaron Finch of Australia who have been performing since 2018, can we assure, KAMRAN AKMAL could sustain that standard of performance? I still remember 2010 Sydney Test between Australia and Pakistan.

Code of Conduct and the behaviour of former Pakistani Player in front of spoiled/pampering news channels

For the avoidance of doubt, any posting by a Player or Player Support Personnel of comments on a social media platform (including, without limitation, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn) shall be deemed to be ‘public’ for the purposes of this offence. Consequently, a Player or Player Support Personnel may breach Article 2.7 where they criticise or make an inappropriate comment in relation to an incident occurring in a Match or any Player, Player Support Personnel, Match Official, Selection Committee, PCB officials or Cricket Team participating in any Match in any posting they make on a social media platform.

As per the above quote from link, many of the former cricketers on News Channels in Pakistan have been open and blunt in their views with regards to the strictness and the environment of current Pakistani Dressing room, which I should admit that it is not perfect and we definitely lack flamboyant players in current Pakistani cricket team lot, but the way Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt were bashing the "Fitness Test Criteria" and that too in front of the TV media which was actually spoiling them, because passing Yo Yo test is not the criteria of selecting into the National Team, but it is a per-requisite. Even in the religious context, we do not start offering prayers directly instead we cover per-requisites initially that is our dressing appropriate, are we clean, is the place we're going to offer prayers clean and do not place in front of the corridor etc and than we go for ablution and offer complete prayers with peace of mind, than how come we forget that cricket is a game starts from the fitness where every part of the body is involved with other part and if I start using the cricketing term, it is a game of hand-and-eye-coordination, so in order to select someone from a pool this is just a per-requisite.

A word to the Pakistani News Media

Pakistani news media shouldn't plagiarize the facts and figures, fitness shouldn't be the important factor which was rightly "manipulated" by Salman Butt, yes you read that right, he manipulated because I must admit, the PCB is also doing not right in having so much fitness emphasis instead they should emphasize on the fitness k how much fitness could he sustain for how much duration, but Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal were ousted from the National Team because of the reason I may not required to repeat those painful events, where I am not going to waste my time in repeating what Salman Butt had done but as far as Kamran Akmal is concerned, he has been part of multiple match fixing allegations, therefore in order to eradicate others for not pointing and raising fingers on the Pakistani flag and the Pakistani Cricket Team, he was barred from participating for the national job internationally. 

Link to this whole article here

Shame upon the Pakistani media

This is a matter of great shame for the shameless Pakistani media, where they are mixing up the meaning of forgiving and allow to represent the Pakistani colours in one single dimension, because according to the international laws of any country, defaming the country is a criminal offence and hence the criminal charge was not imposed on him instead his offence was reprimanded, but it didn't give him the straight forward right to be part of the National Duty, because wearing the Pakistani green and its official blazer with the word Pakistan embossed on it, means you're offering a National Duty and hence if one has been involved in so much match fixing allegations, he should be politely sidelined, which Kamran Akmal has been experiencing, for which he and Salman Butt both have been Manipulating the minds of the masses, because whatever they have been saying is not wrong but their intentions were definitely wrong. That is why it is the responsibility of the management with the team to make sure, such things doesn't happen, the same thing happened with Steven Smith of Australia and how much was he ashamed on his guilt is nothing worth to write words on, because he knew that due to this action of his, the whole Australia nation was called as cheats, and even upon return to International Cricket at Ashes last year, the English crowd was booing him, this is how much intensified this issue really is, and here we have Kamran Akmal who has a paragraph full of Match Fixing Allegations at different sources, and still he's bragging that as he has been forgiven therefore it is hi straight forward right to return to Pakistani Greens.

Forgiven and inclusion into the Pakistani greens are two different dimensions

Pakistani media should remember one thing that after a player is plagiarized in defaming the country, he/the person has given open license to any one in raising fingers to the country any time of the year, therefore stop promoting such players, He might be a better player but one must remember Shakoor Rana and Mike Gatting incident, where it was handled accordingly, Kamran Akmal might be innocent in these allegations but these allegations are marked on the career of his with a permanent marker, therefore he should accept that and instead give lectures to the younger generations on how to avoid such circumstances otherwise you're going to pay the price like he did. If he does something like that, it'd be better thing and I would be the first person to appreciate his act.

FW: Kamran Akmal under investigation for match-fixing?

Kamran Akmal under investigation for match-fixing?

Friday, February 26, 2010
By Khalid Hussain

KARACHI: Pakistan’s wicket-keeper batsman Kamran could currently be under investigation for suspected match-fixing, well-placed sources told ‘The News’ on Thursday.

According to the sources, Kamran was axed from the Pakistan squad for the two Twenty20 Internationals against England in Dubai because there are suspicions that he might have deliberately dropped catches during the second Test in Sydney against Australia last month. If he fails to prove his innocence, Kamran may be overlooked for the ICC World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean where Pakistan will be looking to defend their title this May, said the source.

The 28-year-old was dropped from the third and final match of the series in Hobart for the first time in 42 Tests and five years but later returned for the limited-overs games against the Aussies. He smashed a 33-ball 64 in the tour-ending Twenty20 International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but was still dropped from the touring party for the Dubai matches.

Officially, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that Kamran was overlooked for the brief Dubai visit because of his poor showing in Australia as well as his statements after the Sydney Test in which he insisted he will play in Hobart in spite of the fact the PCB had rushed young glovesman Sarfaraz Ahmed to Australia for the final Test.

However, according to the source, the main reason why Kamran was left out of the Dubai series was because he is under investigation for suspected match-fixing.

“Otherwise how can you leave out a player who had scored 64 from 33 balls against Australia in his last match,” said the source. “He (Kamran) is a suspect.”

Kamran, who was Pakistan’s vice-captain in the Test series against Australia, came under intense fire for his pathetic showing behind the stumps in the Sydney Test which Pakistan lost by 36 runs. He dropped Mike Hussey three times in that Test allowing the veteran batter to score a match-winning hundred. The fumbling keeper also floored Peter Siddle besides wasting a run-out opportunity against Shane Watson and was later singled out as the biggest villain behind Pakistan’s defeat from a seemingly-winning position.

The menace of match-fixing is nothing new for Pakistan cricket.

Last October, National Assembly’s sports committee chief Jamshed Dast accused the Pakistan team of deliberately losing to Australia to knock old rivals India out of the Champions Trophy in South Africa. However, the committee later cleared the team of any wrongdoings.

Back in 2000, former Pakistan captain Salim Malik and medium pacer Ata-ur Rehman were found guilty of match-fixing by Justice Malik Qayyum. They were both banned for life following a year long investigation into the allegations.

The inquiry was launched in response to charges of betting and match-fixing against several of Pakistan’s top cricketers, including former captains Wasim and Malik, spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Mushtaq Ahmed, Rehman and batsman Ijaz Ahmed.

The inquiry investigated several allegations of corruption dating back to 1994, including one made by Australian cricketers Shane Warne and Mark Waugh. The Australian players accused Malik of offering them bribes to perform poorly during an Australian tour of Pakistan.

In recent times, there have been calls from various quarters for the implementation of the recommendations made by Justice Qayyum to eradicate the menace of match-fixing from Pakistan cricket.

“Match-fixing is still the root cause of the problems faced by our cricket,” Senator Enver Baig told this correspondent. “It has to be tackled seriously otherwise there is no hope for Pakistan cricket,” added Baig, a former member of the Senate’s sports committee.