Former Pakistani cricketer Tanvir Ahmed has given his tackle Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja’s decision-making expertise. Raja had just lately made an announcement concerning the Pakistan Junior League, and Ahmed, unimpressed with the choice, feels this transfer is perhaps horrible for the nation’s cricket future.
Raja proposed the junior league with a purpose to present the budding cricketers with extra alternatives. Nevertheless, as per Ahmed, if the participant is straight launched to the T20 format of the sport, with out offering sufficient publicity to the longer format of the sport, it’d hamper their progress.
Ramiz Raja’s mentality is not going to solely enhance under-19 cricket: Tanvir Ahmed
“As a substitute of holding a Junior PSL, the chairman ought to have centered on organizing two-day or three-day tournaments. He’s going to destroy Pakistan cricket with such selections. The children will suppose that they don’t must play long-form cricket and as an alternative give attention to hitting sixes,” Ahmed was quoted by Samaa TV.
“This mentality is not going to solely have an effect on under-19 cricket but additionally under-13 cricket and their households because of the cash concerned. Individuals everywhere in the world are saying that T20 cricket has destroyed Check cricket however our chairman is attempting to prepare Junior PSL,” he added.
Criticizing Raja for his methods concerning junior-level cricket, Ahmed took a dig at his determination to usher in drop-in pitches. “Each new chairman comes with a brand new logic which doesn’t assist Pakistan cricket and the identical goes with him [Ramiz Raja]. As a substitute of reviving departmental cricket, you introduced up the concept of drop-in pitches which didn’t work out,” he acknowledged.
Earlier this month, Salman Butt had additionally opposed the concept of the Pakistan Junior League saying that the younger cricketers is not going to get the correct amount of induction, and their expertise and health will observe a downfall if put in to play the T20 format.
Notably, Raja was elected as PCB’s thirty sixth chairman unanimously and unopposed in September 2021. Within the Pakistan Junior League, six groups will compete within the 19-match competitors on the Gaddafi Stadium from October 1 to fifteen, with gamers chosen via a drafting methodology and every franchise together with a famend participant who will act because the crew’s mentor or coach.
