The usual suspect Asif again made the headlines by testing positive for drugs, its hardly a surprise for anyone, Asif is out of Champions trophy and perhaps International cricket, BCCI by failing to keep his test results secret may have provided Asif a legal loophole, I think enough is enough PCB should learn from their past mistakes and dump this druggie forever.
After I read the news about Asif last night, I was thinking that what actually did PCB gained by protecting Asif and Shoaib and a story came to my mind which I would like to share with all my readers.
Once a thief got caught red handed he was brought before a judge who gave him an option to choose between two punishments, either eat 100 onions or receive 100 lashes, the thief chose the first punishment as it appeared less harsh, after eating 70 onions he thought he made a mistake so he requested the judge can he get 100 lashes instead, the judge agreed and the thief ended up getting both the punishments.
The same is the case with PCB, its been more than two years since Asif and Shoaib tested positive for Nandrolone, and during this time Shoaib has only played 4 tests and 5 ODis and no T20′s for Pakistan and Asif has played 5 tests and 14 Odi’s and 9 T20′s for Pakistan. During this time Pakistan has played 8 tests, 39 ODI’s and 11 T20′s. Both the players missed most of the major tournaments and major series played during this time. So what did PCB gained by saving these two? In my opinion PCB management has proved that they are no lessor morons than the thief who chose to eat 100 Onions over 100 lashes and ended up getting both the punishments. If PCB had banned these two players initially for a year or two they would have saved themselves from huge embarrassment and these players also would have redeemed themselves, by bailing these two out PCB became partners in their crime and tarnished the reputation of a national institution.
The only probable justifcation which comes to my mind is that all the drama which is created by bending and breaking rules is only done to extort money from the players.
The three men Inquiry committees and the all the tribunals and their sham proceedings have made Pakistan Cricket a laughing stock all over the world, PCB management always acts tough after every incident they even announce punishment but in reality all these steps are only taken to tighten the rope around the players neck to extort huge amount of bribe and as soon as the money is received all the previously taken disciplinary actions taken are reversed.
Another news which again didn’t surprised me at all was that Yousuf made himself unavailable for the Champion’s trophy, its a serious blow for Pakistan team, I was not surprised because it has become a pattern, its been almost 3 years when Pakistan fielded its full strength team in any major tournament or series, strange things happen midway during the series or just before it, either players are banned or they get injured and as a result Pakistan team fails to deliver the desired results, the inclusion of Shoaib Akhtar had to be compensated with the exclusion of another player of his caliber. I don’t think Ramadan had anything to do with it as Pakistani players are used to play in Ramadan.
As long as this current management is at the helm of PCB the same pattern will continue.
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