Shoaib Vs PCB
Both PCB
and Akhtar are acting like bully and brat, fighting
and behaving crankily crossing the boundaries and impeaching high headedness
By Syed Naveed Abbas
No one is indispensable. No one is allowed to
behave like a loose cannon. No one is allowed to set a
wrong precedent. No one is allowed to tarnish the image of the country. The
status of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as an institution and that of the dwindling
pacer Shoaib Akhtar as an
individual is shabbily and scruffily catastrophic.
There is a long history of indiscipline by the
pacer and mishandling by the institution. Both PCB and Akhtar
are acting like bully and brat, fighting and behaving crankily crossing the
boundaries and impeaching high headedness. This behavior is utterly
unacceptable.
This is hugely disastrous for the career of the
entire cricket team. This is not the first time that Shoaib
or any other player has flouted discipline or violated team regulations. The
players have been spoilt by the board's silence in the beginning. This is a
million dollar question why the board did not react and emphasised
cricket protocols when the first incident occurred, why was the evil not nipped
in the bud?
The action against the reaction right from the
beginning would have been more fruitful. The attitude can be furnished through
rigorous training and development sessions. Constant monitoring and regular
quality checks on players can keep them awake and alive. The PCB should behave
like a caretaker, a guide and a passionate teacher.
Take an example of a class, if any of the students
displays an attitude problem, he is trained and monitored by the teachers till
his behaviour becomes unobjectionable. The governing
body should muster up the courage to revamp the entire soul so that the
performer candeliver the best.
The PCB has become a joke in the world of cricket
fraternity. A piece of advice for PCB i.e. Time to ACT NOT AGITATE. Former
cricket players had also demanded a strict action against Shoaib
to set an example for other players; Waqar Younis and Aamer Sohail also believe against showing any sympathy to Shoaib. He deserves no leniency at all. In the past he got
away several times flouting the rules.
Sohail said: This is too much,
you don't expect a professional cricketer to behave like this. This is a
national team after all, he said. Former
He further added: Perhaps he (Shoaib)
was unfortunate in that he never had the guiding hand of a captain like Imran Khan, who may have been able to deal with him in a
firm but impartial manner; perhaps if the top administrators of the board had
understood better what goes into the making of a successful team, things might
have been different. As they stand, both Shoaib and
Cricketer-turned politician Imran
Khan said" "The tragic incident of banning Akhtar
reflects how undemocratically cricket is run in this country and I think this
is an ideal time for the new government to fix it," Khan told a foreign
news agency.
Cricket legend Javed Miandad said: That the Board was itself responsible for
turning a blind eye to his mistakes in the past, and that some Board members
continued to show leniency to him because they wanted to cement their places in
the PCB set up by allowing him play and win matches for them.
The skipper further added: The board is not
tackling him maturely and the current PCB administration is incompetent; on the
other hand Shoaib is no more a newcomer and his
attitude is simply unacceptable and is damaging to the image of the country.
How flabbergastfully Dr Nauman Niaz quoted Masood Hassan in his article
"End of the Lout" stating "Thiscricket
board is a joke and should be sent packing at twice the speed at which they are
packing off Shoaib"... a classic diction.
The PCB and Shoaib Akhtar together are responsible for the defaming of
Mindful of the fact, the incredulous performance of
PCB and cantankerous behavior of Akhtar has led to
this shame, indignity and embarrassment. Both of them need to mend thei ends.
Courtesy: The news