Regulating agents in Pakistan

Farooq Nomani argues in the Dawn that the PCB's recently released 'Registration of Agents Regulations, 2010' – a set of rules intended to oversee the legitimacy of player-agent arrangements - is inadequate.

In the aftermath of the spot-fixing scandal, “agent” was the catchword of regulatory hawks because that’s what Mazhar Majeed sold himself as. But what if the next Mazhar Majeed presents himself as a lawyer? An accountant? Or a ‘business manager’? Are such service providers covered by the Agents Regulations? I suppose that depends on how the Agents Regulations define an “agent”? Problem is, they don’t. The Agents Regulations are silent as to what would constitute an “agency activity” and neither does the ICC Players Handbook or the PCB Constitution provide any guidance on the scope of the term.