Imran Khan blames political pressure for dismal state of Pakistan cricket

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan cricket great and Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan on Sunday blamed political pressure and cronyism for the international team’s consistent poor performances.

In an outpour on Twitter Imran said Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif had perfected the art of cronyism and had appointed an election fixer to fix Pakistan cricket.

The former captain said the reason cricket has unlike elsewhere failed to become an institution in Pakistan is because here PM appoints PCB chief.

Imran’s solution to Pakistan’s woes is to insulate cricket from political pressure.

 

We have a PM who has perfected the art of cronyism & appointed an "election fixer" to "fix" Pak cricket.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 27, 2016

 

The reason cricket has, unlike elsewhere, failed to become an institution in Pak is because here PM appoints PCB Chief.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 27, 2016

He also repeated his earlier demands to revamp the domestic cricket structure to improve players’ temperament and technique.
Imran proposed a domestic cricket circuit on the lines of Australia where all talent is concentrated in six regional teams and all departments instead of fielding their own teams should support the regional teams.

 

Here is my strategy for reforming cricket in Pakistan: One: to make cricket an institution we have to insulate it from political pressure.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 27, 2016

The PTI chief also stressed that funds be directed to more productive uses instead of wasting money on senseless expenditures. He said Pakistan was in a dire need of more cricket grounds.