Former National Selection Salahuddin Raps PCB's Experiments (17 Jan 1997)

17 January 1997

Salahuddin raps PCB`s experiments

KARACHI, Jan 16: Salahuddin Ahmed, former National Selector, has issued the following statement:

"I am closely following the various statements given by Majid Khan, Chief Executive of Pakistan Cricket Board, during his recent unannounced visit to Karachi. His decision that all the seven matches of Pakistan`s Golden Jubilee Cricket Tournament in which teams from South Africa, West Indies and Sri Lanka will participate, will be held at Lahore just because there are floodlights there is strange. What is the fault of other major cities of Pakistan like Karachi, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Faisalabad where P.C.B. has not installed floodlights. Is it necessary to celebrate Pakistan`s Golden Jubilee under floodlights and deprive other cities of joining in the celebrations.

Similarly Majid Khan`s argument that there are only two cricketers left in Pakistan team from Karachi because cricket is played here on cemented wickets is even more absurd. Does he not know that this very city has produced batsmen of world class and calibre like Hanif Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Asif Iqbal etc. By the way who is excluding Rashid Latif, Asif Mujtaba and Basit Ali from the Pakistan team?

Majid Khan has also come forward with a new and funny idea of re-ordering the time-table of domestic cricket by arranging the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy and the Patron`s Trophy simultaneously. A departmental team will first play its match in the Patron`s Trophy during one week, then its player will disperse to join their association`s team in the4 Quaid-i-Azam Trophy in the next week and so on. It appears that Khan is bent on ruining the domestic cricket which has been producing good cricketers as practically the whole of the current Pakistan side is the product of our own domestic cricket. "I will advise Majid Khan to be led by reason and not to destroy Pakistan cricket through queer experimentation`s.

Source :: Dawn (https://xiber.com/dawn)