Pakistan needs to relive glory days — Part II
In Part 2 of Ehsan Mani's observations on Pakistan cricket in Dawn , he talks about the security situation in Pakistan and feels the PCB should have anticipated a mass pull-out from the Champions Trophy and swapped the tournament for the 2010 or
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
In Part 2 of Ehsan Mani's observations on Pakistan cricket in Dawn, he talks about the security situation in Pakistan and feels the PCB should have anticipated a mass pull-out from the Champions Trophy and swapped the tournament for the 2010 or 2012 ICC tournaments. However, he strongly feels it's a misconception that Pakistan is largely unsafe to tour. On the functioning of the PCB, he says it's important all cricketing matters be handled by former players, and that it isn't always necessary to appoint a former national player as the chairman.
While I was President of the ICC, before an ICC Board meeting in Lahore in 2004, I took a number of directors including the then Chairmen of the Boards from Australia, West Indies, South Africa and Zimbabwe to Gilgit and Hunza. We drove up the KKH and flew back. It was an eye opener for them. It showed them a Pakistan very different from the perception they had. To this day they all consider it the highlight of their cricketing travels anywhere in the world. Each one of them would come back to Pakistan at the first opportunity.
For Part 1, click here.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo