Stani Army

With Pakistan searching for a home to host Australia next year, the minnows of Ireland and Scotland are emerging as favourites. It has been banded about that one of the reasons for this is that it would help the minnows get more competitive cricket. Pakistan has done a lot for smaller nations in the past (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) and still is with Afghanistan and China, but the simple reason that the PCB would go for Ireland or Scotland to host their matches is cost.

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Personally, I have mixed feelings about Javed Miandad’s re-appointment as Director General of the PCB. He was an advocate of reinstating the banned ICL players and was believed to have good ideas in regards to the direction of domestic cricket in Pakistan. This was all positive. He was also invited by China and Afghanistan to help in basic coaching. Such relationships will hopefully bear fruit in the future as they did when Pakistan helped both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh establish themselves when they were increasingly being isolated and shunned by the other Test playing nations.

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