Savak
Test Captain
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2006
- Runs
- 48,991
- Post of the Week
- 3
PJL
- Once it was clear that sponsors were not interested in giving the league the kind of sponsorship the PCB expected, the PCB Commercial department refused to sign off on the project and advised Ramiz to abandon the project. Ramiz with his bull headed stubbornness bypassed the objections of the PCB Commercial and Finance department and went to the PCB Board of Governors to approve the tournament. As we all know the PCB has incurred a loss of $4.3 million in this tournament and reports of the amount of money that was wasted on this tournament is one of the biggest reasons which the Shahbaz govt used to get rid of Ramiz. Sethi is now demanding an inquiry as to why did the PCB Commercial and Finance department not stand up to Ramiz and prevent the PCB from incurring such a huge loss.
- Domestic players had not been paid their dues and wages for months
- PJL Pakistani players had not been paid. Foreign players were paid 70% and some mentors like Viv Richards were still unpaid
- Ramiz deliberately had his own likes and dislikes when it came to selection matters and would openly tell selectors to ignore players he didn't approve off. He would even be rude to domestic players in domestic players i.e. Sarfaraz Ahmed, Usama Mir. Wahab Riaz has even stated that Ramiz talked about having an open door policy for all domestic and international players but he kept ignoring his phone calls and messages during his tenure
- Ramiz demanded $3 million from the Emirates Cricket Board for issuing NOC's to Pakistani players in the ILT20 Leagues. The Emirates Cricket Board felt betrayed and insulted given the numerous favors they had done to Pakistan Cricket when they had to play most of their home matches in the UAE from 2009 to 2018. Pakistan given its isolation and lack of BCCI financial muscle was in no position to be making demands and if given a choice between choosing b/w Pakistan and India, all Asian countries will side with India therefore the last thing the PCB could afford to do was to further antagonize the rest of the Asian Block. Sethi is now mending relations with the Emirates Cricket Board where he has promised them that Pakistani players will be given NOC's to play in the Emirates League from the next season onwards for no financial demands. Sethi has also agreed to help the Afghanistan Cricket Board out after Australia's refusal to play the cricket series against them by sending the Pakistani team over when the PSL is over
- Ramiz had antagonized almost all the ex Pakistani players and Media reporters. Ramiz had a my way or the high way approach in the PCB where he would not tolerate any difference of opinion whatsover. Sethi in contrast has a more pragmatic, consultative approach where he takes everyone along
- Ramiz encouraged player power in the team, he gave the captain supreme selection authority to select the squad of 15-16 and the final playing eleven. The position of the Chief Selector became redundant and now we have a situation where Babar and his fans are behaving like Cry babies because the PCB is clamping down on factions in the team and trying to reimpose their authority. Babar thinks he has the right to be unaccountable even though his captaincy results are very disasterous as of now.
- Ramiz made no effort to hire a proper full time elite coach to Pakistan. He wasted 12 - 15 months with an absolutely inefficient buffoon in Saqlain Mushtaq and Pakistan looked tactically poor and berift of ideas against Australia, England and New Zealand. Ben Duckett ruthlessly swept and reverse swept all of the Pakistani spinners in the T-20 and Test series and not once did the Pakistani team management has any clue or idea on how to counter him.
- Ramiz made no effort to hire a replacement for Saqlain and Yousaf at the NHPC once they were appointed with the Pakistani team. All the previous coaches with UK Coaching certificates, experience were let go by Ramiz because they were appointed by the previous board
- I don't even need to get started on the pitches under Ramiz's tenure. The pitches under Ehsan Mani, Wasim Khan were much better, more result oriented in comparison to Ramiz. Also Ramiz had apparently wasted Rs 30 crores on his experiment with pitches with zilch to show for it.
Overall i can't say there were really many positives for Pakistan under Ramiz's tenure. The problems we see in our team is all on him. Ramiz overall has given a bad name to Pakistani Cricketers and his era in charge will now be used to highlight why a Pakistani player cannot be a good administrator.
- Once it was clear that sponsors were not interested in giving the league the kind of sponsorship the PCB expected, the PCB Commercial department refused to sign off on the project and advised Ramiz to abandon the project. Ramiz with his bull headed stubbornness bypassed the objections of the PCB Commercial and Finance department and went to the PCB Board of Governors to approve the tournament. As we all know the PCB has incurred a loss of $4.3 million in this tournament and reports of the amount of money that was wasted on this tournament is one of the biggest reasons which the Shahbaz govt used to get rid of Ramiz. Sethi is now demanding an inquiry as to why did the PCB Commercial and Finance department not stand up to Ramiz and prevent the PCB from incurring such a huge loss.
- Domestic players had not been paid their dues and wages for months
- PJL Pakistani players had not been paid. Foreign players were paid 70% and some mentors like Viv Richards were still unpaid
- Ramiz deliberately had his own likes and dislikes when it came to selection matters and would openly tell selectors to ignore players he didn't approve off. He would even be rude to domestic players in domestic players i.e. Sarfaraz Ahmed, Usama Mir. Wahab Riaz has even stated that Ramiz talked about having an open door policy for all domestic and international players but he kept ignoring his phone calls and messages during his tenure
- Ramiz demanded $3 million from the Emirates Cricket Board for issuing NOC's to Pakistani players in the ILT20 Leagues. The Emirates Cricket Board felt betrayed and insulted given the numerous favors they had done to Pakistan Cricket when they had to play most of their home matches in the UAE from 2009 to 2018. Pakistan given its isolation and lack of BCCI financial muscle was in no position to be making demands and if given a choice between choosing b/w Pakistan and India, all Asian countries will side with India therefore the last thing the PCB could afford to do was to further antagonize the rest of the Asian Block. Sethi is now mending relations with the Emirates Cricket Board where he has promised them that Pakistani players will be given NOC's to play in the Emirates League from the next season onwards for no financial demands. Sethi has also agreed to help the Afghanistan Cricket Board out after Australia's refusal to play the cricket series against them by sending the Pakistani team over when the PSL is over
- Ramiz had antagonized almost all the ex Pakistani players and Media reporters. Ramiz had a my way or the high way approach in the PCB where he would not tolerate any difference of opinion whatsover. Sethi in contrast has a more pragmatic, consultative approach where he takes everyone along
- Ramiz encouraged player power in the team, he gave the captain supreme selection authority to select the squad of 15-16 and the final playing eleven. The position of the Chief Selector became redundant and now we have a situation where Babar and his fans are behaving like Cry babies because the PCB is clamping down on factions in the team and trying to reimpose their authority. Babar thinks he has the right to be unaccountable even though his captaincy results are very disasterous as of now.
- Ramiz made no effort to hire a proper full time elite coach to Pakistan. He wasted 12 - 15 months with an absolutely inefficient buffoon in Saqlain Mushtaq and Pakistan looked tactically poor and berift of ideas against Australia, England and New Zealand. Ben Duckett ruthlessly swept and reverse swept all of the Pakistani spinners in the T-20 and Test series and not once did the Pakistani team management has any clue or idea on how to counter him.
- Ramiz made no effort to hire a replacement for Saqlain and Yousaf at the NHPC once they were appointed with the Pakistani team. All the previous coaches with UK Coaching certificates, experience were let go by Ramiz because they were appointed by the previous board
- I don't even need to get started on the pitches under Ramiz's tenure. The pitches under Ehsan Mani, Wasim Khan were much better, more result oriented in comparison to Ramiz. Also Ramiz had apparently wasted Rs 30 crores on his experiment with pitches with zilch to show for it.
Overall i can't say there were really many positives for Pakistan under Ramiz's tenure. The problems we see in our team is all on him. Ramiz overall has given a bad name to Pakistani Cricketers and his era in charge will now be used to highlight why a Pakistani player cannot be a good administrator.
