I WAS a bit taken aback to read the editorial Changes in PCB (Aug 12).

The writer presumes that changes in the management set-up of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are imminent, because it is believed that, as a former star cricketer with a close understanding of the game, Imran Khan would seek to impose his vision of the game through the appointment of people who in his opinion can translate that vision into reality.

As if this were not enough your editorial goes on to suggest that the present chairman should be allowed to continue because “the achievements under the current PCB have been impressive,” and then lists such achievements. But the move to pre-empt such a change is the suggestion that one factor precipitating it could be “the political acrimony that has existed between him (Imran) and the PCB Chairman”.

The editorial appears to have been written as a favour to Najam Sethi. Has it?

Asad Siddiqi
Lahore

Dawn doesn’t write editorials to favour anyone. It gives its opinion, and a reader is free to dissent. — Dawn Readers’ Editor

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2018