PCB Review Committee meets

The Review Committee, constituted by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to review the performance of the Pakistan cricket team in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003, held its first meeting at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday. The meeting lasted nearly seven hours during which the three-man committee outlined its course of action. The meeting was attended by Col (retd) Naushad Ali (chairman), Aqib Javed and Sultan Rana.

"It was a productive meeting in which we shared our thoughts and decided how to go about the assignment that has been given to us. We have outlined our course of action and for the next two weeks, we will sit together so that we can meet our deadline of March 23," chairman of the committee Col (retd) Naushad Ali said.

Naushad dispelled impressions that his committee was an inquiry committee. "It is a review committee that will study the technical aspects of the team's performance and recommend suggestions how can the team's performance for future can be improved."

Naushad said his committee, if required, would invite members of the Pakistan team, management of the team and officials of the cricket board. "If we have to reach to the bottom, we will have to talk to everyone who was associated with the team whether it be players, management or members of the cricket board. There will be an honest, sincere effort in which there will be transparency," he said.

He said the cricket board has provided his committee footages of all the six matches, records of the players, records of grounds on which the matches were played, statistics about the opponents and all other relevant material.

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09 March 2003