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| August 6, 2005 | Saturday | Jumadi-us-Sani 29, 1426 |
Imran blasts PCB over constitution
HYDERABAD, Aug 5: Former Pakistan captain, Imran Khan has criticized Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for its failure to draft the constitution and added that it was disappointing that the board was being run through ad hocism.
He elaborated that Pakistan’s cricket as well as PCB needed to be institutionalised and denied that he had taken a U-turn as far as England’s tour of Pakistan was concerned as reported on Friday.
The former skipper was speaking to Dawn during his visit to the city on Friday.
“It is not any rocket science that the constitution should not be ready by now as it has been more than two years that it is still being written,” he remarked and wondered why its final draft has been delayed.
He further said that the sooner it was written the better it would be for Pakistan’s cricket.
“PCB needs to become an institution now and if ad hocism continues to be there then all the decisions would be ad hoc based in nature,” he said.
He stressed that in the absence of a proper constitution accountability could not be held in the PCB and further added that he had supported Younis Khan as Pakistan’s future captain which was justifiably proved right.
He stated that now every known cricketer was supporting Younis openly.
About Shoaib Akhtar, he said that the strike bowler’s future was in his own hands and maintained that if the England series was called off PCB would incur losses in millions of rupees.
He denied the statement attributed to him in Friday’s papers.
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