Pakistan Cricket: What lies ahead?

 

The first-leg exit of Pakistan from the prestigious tournament has raised a lot of questions.

By Muhammad Asif Khan

With high hopes the men in green embarked on a trip to England around a month before the historic Champions Trophy to get accustomed to the conditions. Even before leaving the country the boys were trained at Abbottabad – a relatively cooler place – to get the English weather feel. However, the first-leg exit from the prestigious tournament has raised a lot of questions back home.

Basit Ali urges PCB to form a think tank

Basit Ali thinks that PCB should form a think tank which consists of Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Rashid Latif and Intikhab Alam.

KARACHI: At the time when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is trying to put its house in order with the introduction of a newly amended constitution, former test cricketer Basit Ali urged the PCB chairman to constitute a think tank for the betterment of Cricket in the country. “PCB should form a think tank which consists of Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Rashid Latif and Intikhab Alam. I guarantee that Cricket in this country would get better with their valuable contributions”, Basit Ali said, while talking to this correspondent for News One. “PCB Chairman [Zaka Ashraf] has been sincere in his efforts, other departments should also put their differences behind for the sake of Pakistan Cricket”, he added.