Ramiz Raja lashes out at PCB after Pakistan departs from World Cup
Former cricketer Ramiz Raja has expressed anger at the bad performance of the Pakistan cricket team in the World Cup and at the selection committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Expressing anger, Ramiz Raja, a former head of PCB, said, “When you (your bowlers) will not get wickets with the new ball, expensive bowlers will become more and more expensive, then what will Babar Azam do as captain?”
He severely criticized the management of the Board, stating, “Now there will be a gathering of cricketers in which they will ask questions about how to fix cricket. Why were you appointed in the cricket board, their job is to change the captain and coaching staff and understand they have done a great job and now everything will be fine. These people are under the misconception that unless there is love and passion for cricket, Pakistan cricket cannot recover an inch.”
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A few days ago, Ramiz Raja slammed the leaking of a provate conversation between Babar Azam and PCB Chief Operating Officer Salman Naseer. “Those who leak news and make some journalists favorites are defaming Pakistan’s cricket and now it should be stopped. The cricket board leaked Babar Azam’s WhatsApp chat, just listen to the recording of the chief selector, how much venom he is spewing against Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan,” he said at the time.
Without mentioning the name of the head of the cricket board, Zaka Ashraf, he severely criticized him and said, “If cricket has to take a new turn, will we work with a 70-year-old person who does not know anything about selection in Pakistan? Club cricket is over, the people teaching there are doing politics.”
He suggested that the whole system should be fixed but first, the cricket board should be fixed.