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Cricket in Afghanistan

A single ODI between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been played in Dubai.  As expected, Pakistan won the match by 7 wickets convincingly.  Despite results, this match was an historic movement for Afghans.  Being neighbor to Pakistan Afghans are fond of cricket. Most of the Afghan youths grown in the refugees camps of Pakistan. In those days Imran, Wasim and  Waqar where their heroes. In their childhood they used the ball prepared of old clothes for playing cricket. They used the wood of washing cloth (Sobarhay) as a bat. Most of the members of the current Afghan team played domestic cricket in Pakistan.

The love for sports of Afghans youths tells us that this is a peace loving nation. They love to play sports. They want to develop peaceful relationship with other Nations through sports. But unfortunately other nations have made Afghanistan a battlefield for their own interest.

This is the need of the time to provide regular chances to Afghan cricket team to play against big teams. ICC has to play a vital role in providing them chances. Because looking into the interest of Afghans in cricket, one can expect that cricket can play a vital role in bringing peace in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has suffered massively.  Now these people should be given a chance to live peacefully.

Mazher Majeed’s Allegations Against Indians and Australians

In England during hearing of Fraud case against Pakistani cricketers, a recording of conversation between Bookie Mazaher Majid and Reporter Mazhar Mehmood has been presented. According to this recording Mazher Majeed has claimed that almost all senior Australian cricketers are involved in match fixing and spot fixing. He also added that he was in contact with Indian players Harbhjan Sing and Youvraj Sing. He also disclosed his contacts with some other Pakistani players like Umer Akmal, Kamran Akmal and Imran Farhat.

Now this is test case for ICC. Can ICC launch inquiry against Australian and Indians? Australian board has already rejected Mazhar Majeed’s allegations. ICC, BCCI and CA were the strong supporters of Mazher Majeed’s allegations against Pakistani players. But now CA is not taking  his allegations against Australians serious. Though BCCI has not showed its reaction till now, but some senior players has denied Mazher Majeed’s allegations against Indian players. Remember that these senior players were very furious against Pakistani players when they were named by Mazher Majeed as fixers, but now when he named some Indians they are furious against Mazher Majeed instead of Indian players. This attitude shows double standards of Indians and Australians. One can understand that they are not sincere with the game; otherwise they were due to demand similar inquiry as it was in case of Pakistani players.

If ICC is sincere in prevention of match fixing in cricket, it should contact Mazher Majeed and should launch inquiry for judging the allegations but if ICC remained silent against Australians and Indians it would be considered that all this drama was only a conspiracy against Pakistani players. 

Appointment of Ijaz Ahmed as Bating Coach

PCB has appointed Ijaz Ahmed as batting consultant / batting coach for the tour of Zimbabwe. He has performed the same duties in recent past but was failed to provide positive results. Experts are agreed that Ijaz Ahmed’s own technique of batting is not correct. This is a serious question that if his own technique is not correct, how he can correct the youngsters.  Here another question arise that, is there no other Pakistani former player to be appointed as Coach. What has happened to Inzamam, Basit Ali, Asif Mujtabah and other legends like Saeed Anwer and Javed Miadad. We can found the answer in one of the interview of Shahid Afridi which he recorded for a TV Channel. He said that Waqar Younis became against me because I suggested the name of Javed Miadad as Batting Coach.

Infact in Pakistan every one wants authority. Every politician, every officer and even every supper star wants authority instead of only performing his duties. The only reason because of PCB is not appointing a capable and responsible supper star as batting coach is that Waqar Younis does not want another support star to share authority with him. Even PCB chairman also not wants to appoint a person as batting coach who can interfere in team matters and can challenge his wishes. Otherwise there is no other hurdle in appointment of batting coach for the team.

To me the appointment of Ijaz Ahmed as batting coach will produce no positive results and it is just a tactic to reduce the pressure of cricket fans for appointment of batting coach.

PCB – Dog's Tail

After the establishment of current government, unfortunately Pakistan is facing bad news from every field of life.  Suicide attacks on innocent people of Pakistan are a matter of routine. Drone attacks are addition to these suicide attacks. 20 hours so called load shading in 42+⁰ temperature is another disaster. Cricket is such an activity which Pakistani people can use to forget these problems for some time and can divert their attention towards normal life by watching good cricket matches.  But unfortunately this government destroyed the whole structure of Pakistan cricket also as it did with other organizations. President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari gifted the chairmanship of PCB to one of the relative of his Jailmate Ahmed Mukhtair.  This is fact that Ijaz Butt is enjoying this appointment because of his relationship with Ahmed Mukhtair, otherwise a wise man will not allowed him to enter in the premises of PCB office.

The tragedy of Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir and attack on Sri Lankan players is on the credit of this management. This management destroyed Younis Khan by mentally torching and promoting grouping against him. Younis Khan is a player who is capable of leading Pakistan and is also capable to groom the upcoming batting talent of Pakistan. But this management has nothing to do with the success of Pakistan cricket. It has its own mysterious agenda.

After Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi gave some good hopes to Pakistan cricket. But again this management started conspiracies against him. Before the world cup it tried to remove Shahid Afridi from captaincy but because of immense pressure from Pakistan cricket fans this management avoid to do so at that time. But now as all the nation is focused on the dangerous situation of the country because of some differences with USA, this management shamelessly act upon its plan and appointed Misbah as captain. What is the justification for appointment of Misbah as captain? What agenda this board want to complete through the captaincy of Misbah? You can’t consider it future planning because he cannot play for long time because of his age factor.

The conclusion for the current PCB board is “Dog Tail will remain tilted for ever” 

Abdul Razzaq

   

 

Personal Profile

Name	Date of Birth	Team	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Abdul Razzaq	02-12-1979	Pakistan	Right-hand bat	Right-arm fast-medium

Batting Record

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100	50
Tests	46	77	9	1946	134	28.61	41.04	3	7
ODIs	262	226	57	5063	112	29.95	81.47	3	23
T20	26	24	9	346	46*	23.06	126.27	0	0

Bowling Record

	Mat	Inns	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	5w	10
Tests	46	76	100	5/35	7/155	36.94	3.16	1	0
ODIs	262	251	267	6/35	6/35	31.84	4.70	3	0
T20	26	19	18	3/13	3/13	20.00	6.85	0	0