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what next for pakistan...?

by straight point

...as well as world cricket…

right now hoping for cricket in pakistan is like hoping against hope…but the real question is can world cricket afford to isolate pak cricket...?

most certainly not…

west Indies is like hot one day and cold another…fighting with new zealand to keep last place of test cricket at bay…who in turn are struggling to find fit (willing) and skilled eleven to play test cricket...

bangladesh is sticking relentlessly to its juvenile state as far as test cricket goes…

...and more often than not sri lanka has to do away with playing minnows coz they find themselves in receiving end as far as FTP goes…

so out of nine test playing nations…can test cricket survive with almost half of them struggling for one reason or another…?

at the time when icc is looking to globalise cricket we cannot afford to lose one of the founding test playing nations and we must ensure that they don’t feel isolated from world cricket…

icc must sit with pcb to get engaged in honest one to one talks…to find alternative venues for ‘home’ grounds…and ensure that enough money is pumped in to save pcb from going bankrupt...who is already on the verge of going down the drain first with cancellation of tours...and now in wake of this terrorist attack...

so if security permits australia must honor abu dhabhi ‘home’ series…and so are other tours involving pakistan…

if cricket can bend its ways to accommodate lucrative IPL into scheme of things…i think some ways can most certainly be found for saving pak cricket…

its time to make them believe that we care for their cricket and make them believe they belong to the little cricketing community and one accident can not sweep them away from us...

this is not the time of writing obituaries of ailing pak cricket...but inventing ways of preventing it from melting into oblivion...

its time to offer helping hand to pak cricket so that it can stand and fight again to be counted...

coz any way the rivalry of pakistan and indian cricket do not depend on the venue they play cricket in…

11 comments:

Gaurav Sethi said...

Good one SP.

It'll be incredible if the cricket community can look beyond their own noses, and do some mouth-to-mouth with Pak cricket.

Crazy bit is pak crick should have been on life support long time back, but dumbass-self obsessed myopic attitudes in the PCB and ICC, have turned a blind eye all along.

The situation's critical, but we gotta believe it's not beyond repair.

However, now it's fckn complex. Pre 26/11 PCB-BCCI could have forged a winning partnership -always felt, better than the Gulf, Pak should have looked at North India as a Neutral Venue.

straight point said...

thanks NC!

though i still believe pcb more than anybody failed to put their case even when they had the backing of bcci...

but as you said if we believe its not beyond repair...then even now its not late...

Ankit said...

there is going to be no cricket in Pakistan.

No Cricket @ home = less cash

in this money driven scenario, the future indeed looks bleak...

straight point said...

yes ankit...that's why its more important that we don't let this happen knowingly...

cricket can ill afford to let this happen...

Ankit said...

cricket has no option now..

abu dhabi will take a major cut if it hosts...

straight point said...

ankit

what matters now for pakistan is how not how much...

Ankit said...

yeah...you are right...

Ankit Poddar said...

insightful, SP

it is indeed important for PCB to look out for neutral "home" grounds, looking back in hindsight PCB made a grave mistake by not shifting home venues to less than home venues 14 months back itself.

the entire history of every country refusing to tour for 14 months and then the only touring country getting attacked makes all possibility for future discussions on safety issues impossible.. though i m by no way saying that the attack itself was any less grave, i am just saying that the incident has re-confirmed others' lack of trust in PCB, and that makes PCB loose a lot of ground for talks.

i agree with NC that BCCI offering a helping hand will lead to a very complex situation.. the govts. have to be taken into consideration, and the geo-political sceanario is indeed bleak, now with pak ministry blaming RAW!

Anonymous said...

this attack on Sri Lanka's unsuspecting Cricket team is tragic because of the deaths and because of the long term effect this will have internationally

straight point said...

thanks ankitP

if only the dickheads sitting in top positions in pcb has some foresight...we would not have been in mess...

the idea of neutral venue for home series is floating for some time now but they kept on sitting in this...

anyway no point looking in past we have to look fwd and see what can be done to save ailing pak cricket...

straight point said...

hi coffee

welcome on bored...hope you will keep dropping by...

indeed it tragic coffee...but we must move on and ensure that this is not repeated again...