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After last eight long and not-so-brilliant years of Pakistan Cricket, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has now at last started to live under the umbrella of constitution. Though people of Pakistan aren’t that much concerned or interested in the inner mechanism of governance in the PCB, and they are much more interested in the performance of the team, which has been dismal for a long time now, but its imperative that PCB should be run according to the approved constitution, so that things could be done methodically and with see-through transparency.

PCB, regions and the departments cannot flourish without the mutual cooperation, and if PCB wants to end the current draught of new talent for the national team, it has to work on the grass root level. PCB’s talent hunt program with the sponsorship of cellular company Mobilink is very commendable, but its results are hence to see, and it shouldn’t be just a marketing campaign for the telecom giant.

After the promulgation of the constitution, chairman PCB has also appointed the 15-member governing body, which has also conducted its first lavish meeting in Lahore and has ratified some decision taken by the previous ad hoc board. All the decision and recommendations are the part of process and they should be there, but it’s the need of hour that PCB shouldn’t just confine itself to the bureaucratic rigmarole and it should deliver the concrete results, which should be reflected in the national team.

The way the national team is behaving is unacceptable. Its performance is unprofessional, inconsistent and not at par with the international standards. Its quite alarming for the game that we still don’t have defined and solid openers, and its also very much disgusting that we don’t have consistent middle order, and we have to rely on the likes of Younus Khan, Mohammad Yousuf and Misbah-ul-Haq, who perform in couple of matches, and then flop in dozen other showdowns. We don’t have any considerable all-rounder and we are still wasting a huge ugly amount on Shahid Afridi. Our captain is also a strange animal. You can’t declare him as a batsman and you cannot say him a bowler. What is he?

So PCB needs to utilize its constitution and governing body and other resources to find new and fresh blood for the team, otherwise humiliation of the country will continue.