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Originally Posted by Orchid It must be a nightmare trying to run PCB while constantly looking over their shoulders to see when Senate Committee will summon them to explain even the tiniest operational details. |
I do have sympathy for your general point, and I agree that it is a tough ask. However, as far as the PCB is concerned, it goes with the territory really - the reason Shehryar Khan is the Chairman is not because of his non-existent cricket knowledge or his pitiful commercial acumen; he runs the PCB because after 30 odd years in the Foreign Office, he is best placed to deal with the various lobbying organisations, stakeholders, pressure groups and other competing interests that are vying for influence in the whole set-up.
Negotiating with the often recalcitrant district cricket associations, with their entrenched political operatives are one aspect of his job, another aspect is mollifying the egos of the players and the sponsors, and a third is placating the politicians and the public. If all his diplomatic expertise, his civil service upbringing and his bureaucratic know-how has not prepared him for that, then he should not be in this job!