'Embarrassing' Pakistan Cricket Hits Rock Bottom With Bangladesh Defeats
Pakistan cricket was reeling Wednesday after its first-ever Test defeats against Bangladesh, the latest in a string of poor performances which have seen the game hit rock bottom.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is currently chaired by the country's interior minister Mohsin Naqvi.
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"Since 1998, hand-picked favourites of the respective ruling regimes in the country have taken turns as PCB chairmen to run the game in their own clueless manner, only to ruin it," the Express Tribune said.
Other analysts also say frequent changes at the top of the PCB, which has had five chairmen in the past three years, have impeded progress.
"With the PCB's top management changing with every change of guard at political level, there is has been no consistent framework," said the Dawn newspaper.
There have also been constant switches of captains and coaching staff while the domestic system of tournaments has had countless overhauls.
PCB chairman Naqvi himself called for "surgery in the system" after the T20 World Cup exit.
"We need to fix our problems," he said last month.
"But when we look at how to resolve them, we don't have any solid data or player pool which we can draw from."
Ex-skipper Akram echoed Naqvi's analysis.
"The quality of our cricket has gone down with no grassroots activity, so we do not have proper back-ups," he said.
"We have a lot to work on," Akram said. "As a cricket nation we have to be patient, that's the key."
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"Unfortunately, there is no quick fix."
