05 December 2004	Sunday	22 Shawwal 1425

ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: If cricket is to be cleaned up, ad hocism in the Pakistan Cricket Board PCB) has to end, a former official of the organisation said on Saturday.

Arif Ali Khan Abbasi, who was the chief executive of the PCB in 1995-96 wondered how could the state of cricket improve when there was one man making all the decisions.

"In the absence of a General Body and the Executive Council, we are going to get nowhere," said Abbasi, also a secretary of the PCB between 1998 and 1991.

He said that the General Body was supposed to meet twice in a year while there have to be six Executive Council meetings. "No such thing has happened for years now and ad hocism continues."

"How can one expect any good with this being the state of affairs," he asked.