Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has rubbished allegations that they bribed the Zimbabwean cricketers to tour Pakistan for a short limited over series, last month. Khan said on Friday that while it had paid around $500,000 to Zimbabwe cricket to cover their expenses for the tour but it was unfortunate there had been talk about players being bribed to tour Pakistan. “That’s not true as the tour was approved by both boards and just yesterday our Prime Minister sent a message of thanks to the Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for allowing his team to tour Pakistan,” Khan scotched the rumours. “In such a scenario, there’s no question of bribing players,” he added.
Pak to host T20 league in UAE next year
Islamabad: The PCB will organise its first ever professional T20 league in the United Arab Emirates next year. Shaharyar Khan says in a statement that the UAE has been chosen to host the league in order to “attract the maximum number of foreign players.” The PCB postponed a planned Pakistan Super league back in 2013 after complaints from investors over tight bidding deadlines and from players over scheduling conflicts.
lack of strategic thinking behind Pakistan’s WC loss
Karachi: Shortage of positive approach and dearth of successful strategic thinking are among the reasons for Pakistan team’s failure during the World Cup, a review committee formed by PCB said. The review committee which included Shaharyar Khan and head of the executive committee, Najam Sethi, chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed and former Test players, Wasim Bari and Iqbal Qasim held a meeting in lahore on Friday. The findings of the review committee confirmed the views of many former players and critics that the Pakistan team management lacked positivity and made strategic blunders in the mega-event held in Australia and New Zealand.
The review committee also felt that poor fielding, low fitness levels and inconsistency in selection matters in the tournament contributed to the team’s poor performance. The committee jointly held players, coaches, selectors and those running affairs of the Board responsible for Pakistan’s poor performance.