Seminar on cricket
The Pakistan board organised a seminar of ex-players, board officials and regional administrators to discuss the path the cricket must take in the country to achieve long-term success
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
AFP
The Pakistan board organised a seminar of ex-players, board officials and regional administrators to discuss the path the cricket must take in the country to achieve long-term success. Qamar Ahmed writing in The Dawn wasn't too impressed.
It has never come to fruition and it may never yet come off any better. These summits summoned by every new chairman taking over the reins of the PCB have so far turned out to be an absolute waste of time, money and energy and nothing more than an exercise to announce that they exist and know better than their predecessors.
In good times no one cares. I, however, find it glaringly distasteful that every time the graph goes downhill of a Pakistan team they become a laughing stock. The players, the officials and those responsible for it are then summoned for explanation.
I think the most comical of all is the Senate Standing Committee on Sports which I feel is no more than a bunch of publicity seeking individuals, hungry for seeking attention and spotlight without much to show for.
Scroll further down the page and read Sohaib Alvi's account of the Multan Test of 1980 where Sylvester Clarke, hit by an orange thrown by spectators, replied with a brick.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo