As I read the newspaper this morning, an interesting headline hit me
"Senate to be briefed on Pakistans Peformance"

Reading on, the senate would be briefed about the teams preperations for the tour to england on June 23. Now what annoys me the most is that what do politicians know about Cricket, what recommendations can they make. Isnt that the duty of the PCB?

Henceforth whenever the team returns from a tour and had a bad performance an inquiry is etup "into the bad performance". What is that all about? Cricket is a game one wins one loses.

What do you all think?

See there are not many countries whose president is patron of cricket board .. ab president saheb patron honge to politics kaise nahin aayega........ waise india mein bhi ganguly issue mein tantrum hua tha but finally media made noise and parliament stayed out of it...

We have been arguing and objecting to this for years and years. Politics has nothing to do with cricket, except for Pakistani Cricket. Pakistani Cricket and politics go hand in hand and has been doing so for as long as i can remember. The situation will remain as it is unless someone senior from the PCB steps up and objects to this. It can be possible that politicians may have more knowledge about cricket than the PCB, but there job is in politics, not in cricket.

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Pakistan Meri Jaan

first of all our chairman of cricket board is also a politian .this is ridiculous, politics have nothing to do with cricket.the involvement will only result in chaos .i think the cricket lovers of pakistan should protest against these kinds of steps!

its 'se we have to taint everythang in our beloved country with the filthy brush of politics. politics ( n dirty politics at that ) is the second religon in our country.
humaaray siyaasat daan siyaasat tou sahee tarah kar nahin saktay, abb cricket manage karain gay. every "professional" polition in pakistan needs to be hanged. its az simple az dat.

erm hello...what do u expect from a country that is being run by a military regime! they are going to get involved left right n centre!!!! whether they have a clue or not!

well, shahriyar khan is a diplomat...so obviously, there is a huge political connection there...

cricket can be discussed in political circles, liek how it can be discussed among school students, or college kids...discussing alone does no harm...politicians like cricket too, dont they...?

as long as they dont do anything stupid or anything which defies cricketing logic, no need to worry.

I guess because it was always and has not changed. Before there were people in Hockey but I will say that Pakistan Hockey was doing very good at that time. But it is funny to say the least the government involvement in sports and matters discussed in senate. But but then if government doesn't get involved I don't see private parties starting and building sports

the only person in national assembly who has a cricketing brain is our great hero "IMRAN KHAN'

Well, the problem comes here. If Gilly says he does not care about John Howard or disagrees with his political matters, nothing is going to happen to his position. If Shoaib Malik says he hates Musharraf, he will probably not live to see the light of next day, leave alone playing for Pakistan. Pakistan needs to get rid of the cricket politics connection.

what do you mean by "he will probably not live to see the light of next day, leave alone playing for Pakistan" Are you suggesting that he would be jailed and tortured or worse be killed like in Saddam's Iraq? if so what prove do you have that leads you to this insane conclusion or are you drawing this based on historical point of view and if so i want that too, as i am not aware this kind of things happening in Pakistan.

^i was going to say exactly that...this craig person makes an ass out of himself everytime he ASSumes. There is no substantial evidence of his conclusion. Infact, Imran Khan has criticized the govt many times, I dont think he has been jailed.

OK members please stick to the Discussion rather then a member. Disagree with his point of view not with the PERSON on a whole
I wont edit your posts.

Wasim

KHAN BHAI TWO THUMBS UP!

First of all the Paki politicians dont even know anything about politics let alone cricket.
Secondly it goes to prove that Paki politicians have nothing constructive to contribute to PAKISTAN'S Development as they have so much free time to mingle with PCB's affairs.
It truly is a joke.