Stani Army

What on earth is going on? Following Pakistan’s embarrassing defeat to India, the PCB Chairman Nasim Ashraf has sent an email to the team manager Talat Ali, criticising the team.

It’s right, we’re all fans so in that sense we have a right to criticise but what was the Chairman of the PCB doing writing his opinions on team selection, fitness of players, captaincy and body language in an email to the team manager. Surely this is beyond the Chairman’s domain. If the chairman of the board needs to interfere with issues that concern team management and the selectors then he has employed team managers and selectors that do not know how to do their jobs.

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After a quite resounding win for the Indians over Pakistan in the tri-series in Mirpur Bangladesh, one can’t help wondering whether we are seeing the effects of the IPL on Indian cricket already. There is no doubt that the Indian youngsters playing for their respective franchises would have benefited from the top international players they played with and against. Another thing they would have benefited from is the experience of being asked to perform when it matters in real match situations in front of large crowds something which net sessions just cannot provide.

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