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Najaf Shah decides to take PCB to court [Letter Post # 31]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Najaf Shah,one of the leading wkt takers in domestic cricket last year is taking PCB to court after not being picked for Pak & Pak 'A' tours</p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/586799671965786112">April 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Don't think this will work for Najaf.
Btw Sadaf is more deserving.
 
I feel for him, but doing this sort of thing will ensure that he's never picked in future. Besides which, it's not like 'international cricketer' is a profession that is determined exclusively by lower level performances, otherwise Jamaica's Nikita Miller would be the best bowler ever.
 
nice, keep going najaf shah, if he is fit enuf and performing then why not even tried in the A tours.. Had they had some ppl questioned PCB like this before, when ppl lie fawad, haris sohail, maqsood, sadaf who all performed for seasons after seasons but the selectors, selection committee and PCB where all hell bent on selecting the TTFs (malik, kamran and farhat) again and again, pak would be playing these guys fawad, haris and maqsood who are just played 20-30 matches would have played 100 matches by now and pak would be playing an experienced middle order without misbah, younis and yousuf...
 
Players should make a player union and it should include top domestic performers like najaf, sadaf, naeemuddin etc and then challange pcb
 
I have heard he was so talented that from Pakistan U-17 he was straight away picked into pakistan A
 
Najaf is too old anyways. I hope Sadaf doesn't get involved in this. Otherwise, his career would be done too.
 
ask_analyse_act said:
nice, keep going najaf shah, if he is fit enuf and performing then why not even tried in the A tours.. Had they had some ppl questioned PCB like this before, when ppl lie fawad, haris sohail, maqsood, sadaf who all performed for seasons after seasons but the selectors, selection committee and PCB where all hell bent on selecting the TTFs (malik, kamran and farhat) again and again, pak would be playing these guys fawad, haris and maqsood who are just played 20-30 matches would have played 100 matches by now and pak would be playing an experienced middle order without misbah, younis and yousuf...
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Pak is already gifted with some good bowlers. We cant select everyone in national side. He needs to impress the selectors by consistent performance not by suing them :/ look at india players like yuvraj sehwag gambir harbhajan rp sing robin uthappa dinesh karthik irfan pathan varun aoran etc are sitting outside the national team. They didn't sue their board :/
 
out of interest, assume the court finds PCB of deliberately ignoring Najaf.

What will happen next?
 
This will never work. It's like taking a prospective employer to court for not hiring you. There's no obligation for you to be selected, it's a privilege not a right.

Then again who knows with Pakistan's court system eh. Stranger things have happened.
 
MenInG said:
out of interest, assume the court finds PCB of deliberately ignoring Najaf.

What will happen next?
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I think it would be a disastrous precedent were that the case.
 
If he is 30 years old then I have some swamp land I would very much like to sell anyone who is interested. Only $10 an acre.
 
Orbis said:
He didn't even turn up to the fitness test and he has the nerve to complain

<blockquoteclass="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>SadafHussein failed his fitness test Najaf Shah didn't turn up. TabishKhan made it today. To be reassessed tomorrow.</p>— Dr.NaumanNiaz(@DrNaumanNiaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrNaumanNiaz/status/586185862402179073">April 9, 2015</a></blockquote> <script asyncsrc="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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He had a new born baby who was unwell so couldn't turn up and reported the PCB that he will give his test after a few days.
 
MarkCooper said:
If he is 30 years old then I have some swamp land I would very much like to sell anyone who is interested. Only $10 an acre.
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:))) funny.


at least it will make PCB realize their mistakes. I really trust our courts to interfere in the pcb matters as they have done in the Zaka-Sethi saga..:yk
 
Asadullah said:
About time. So much bias has ruined our cricket
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it's incompetency as well not just the bias. I think PCB needs an overhaul. It is really run by clueless oldies who have are there to just to fill the numbers..:inti
 
Unless you're Fawad Alam (or the second coming of Wasim/Waqar) you have no case to take to the COURTS. This is exactly the kind of mentality we don't want on the team. Shooting himself in the foot.
 
This whole thing is reminding me of the Zulqarnain Haider episode :)) fool tried to claim asylum for him and hais family at the expense of the PCBs reputation. I find it an outrage that he is even allowed to play domestic cricket after that!
 
Najaf shah was one of the best bowlers who never got a chance at the upper level. Sadaf hussain will also end up like him....
 
Najaf Shah

A letter was written to PCB Chairman Shahyar khan but he has no time to response on it

Wednesday, 31 December 2014,

Chairman PCB Shahyar Khan,

Assalam-o-Alaikum,
Respected Sir,

I have been declared best bowler of recently concluded the Grade I Silver League (domestic cricket tournament), despite this great performance I have not been selected for “A” team against Kenya and Pentagular cricket tournament.

I have putted in a lot of hard work, and have been training extremely hard for this kind of performance – at end I’ve been awarded a trophy and merely 25000 rupees and have been completely ignored for the pentagular tournament and selection for “A” team.

I am extremely disappointed with how I have been treated by PCB so far, I was expecting a much better appreciation and encouragement for the performance I’ve demonstrated in domestic cricket. If the criteria of selection is other than performance than players like me who come from middle class background will never cross the threshold of domestic cricket and they will ruin their future and life.

I recently turned 30, I suspect selectors are using it as an excuse to not select me for the teams I mentioned above, Sir if age is the reason then I would ask why people like Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Irfan, Sohail Tanveer, Umer Gul who are of my age are still playing for domestic and national team. My current performance is proof that I am fully fit and ready to play at any level.

I am writing this letter to you with hope that you will take action and ask relevant people to justify why I have been ignored for Pentagular and A team selection, if no action is taken then I will think that all of this system is corrupt where people like me who come from middle class background and don’t strong political or cricketing background will never be considered.

In my last ten years of domestic career, I have been ignored many times like this. I am attaching the record of this year and of my whole career so you can judge how much deserving I am.

I literally cannot tell you how much disappointed I am right now, It has started impacting my personal life.

I hope you will you will ask selectors to give due diligence when it comes to selection and I will be provided with appropriate opportunity in near future. I apologise for my strong words in this letter.

Yours Sincerely,

Najaf Shah
 
You can't sue selectors. Court can't decide on these issues. Pcb is an independent body.
 
What the hell is this silver league ? He should be playing at the highest domestic level possible and I'm pretty sure that the current Pakistan bowling line up is more than adequate than what Najaf will conjure up.
 
I thought Silver league was Grade II (with Gold being Grade I)... or am I mistaken?
 
MenInG said:
out of interest, assume the court finds PCB of deliberately ignoring Najaf.

What will happen next?
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Even though not possible but it would be hilarious, that judge will get a lot of fame and cases.....

But I wonder who is advising najaf shah, hopefully not some lawyer who is trying to make a buck or two out of him.

Don't think a player needs to be educated to know that no one is entitled to play for Pakistan, and a sports board could give any reason it wants to the court.
 
From the mistakes (putted) in the letter it seems Najaf is going on his own and wrote the letter himself or help of a friend.
I have not doubt many lawyers will take his case just for the fame.

Courts are in no position to decide such cases but Najaf has brought up an important question on why he is ignored(or other deserving players like Fawad ignored for national team) even for Pentagular and A team selection. He is not even saying the national team here so people saying that we a decent crop of pacers for national team should compare to what we have in A team.
 
He might not be wrong, but such a poorly written public letter seems like it will not help him at ALL.
 
Im guessing here, that there is no professional players association in Pakistan at present, with all the backward politics in pcb. maybe its a boy time the ex players should consider creating one possibly even someone like Misbah to chair it
 
Feel sorry for him ! True candidate for the team and for A tours ! Somebody has to take the step.


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if that is the exact copy of the letter, I'm afraid he is lost already. That is a very poorly written letter :facepalm:
 
OZGOD said:
I think it would be a disastrous precedent were that the case.
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How do you hold cricket boards and selectors accountable then for the unfair [read: corrupted] selections then?


Mohammad Ilyas selects his non-performing son-in-law and everybody should say Amen in the name of "supporting the team"? I sorry, you can tell 18-19 years fans to do that but .... not to everybody!

How do hold selectors accountable for selecting Asad Shafiq over and over again for ODIs when he averaged only 18 but players like Najaf can not get a single game?

How would you hold a Chairman like SYK who says that Fawad Alam was not selected for WC 2015 because he is a test player - and yet he selects a bigger and better test player to lead ODI team? Not to mention, Fawad is still not in the test team even though Chairman himself admitted that!

You are an Australian therefore you will not understand the culture! But I am sure you understand how and why Kerry Packer took ACB to the task when he felt cheated! I wish there was ONE Kerry Packer in Pakistan to teach these hand picked PCB Chairmen like SYK and NSethi a lesson!

Good on najaf shah! I'll be cheering for him! Wish him best of luck!
 
bold act ,lots of lawyers will take this case for the fame but Sadaf has a bigger claim
 
This is mental, you can't sue them for not picking you whether there is a players association or not.

Also if he has played for a decade, how many different selectors have the PCB had in that time and they have all not picked him?
 
Courts cannot even decide between the fights of PCB chairmen then how can they decide who to select for a team?

This is no way to get in to the team.
 
i think fair enough action by him

he gets some publicity for his case even if he does not win court case

we know PCB admin and selection committees can be revolving door so maybe someone currently outside the system will take up his case and then when they are in position they can pick him

now media will concentrate on his performance and after every pak loss the management and think tank will have to answer questions on why najaf not selected

the wider point is what is point of having domestic system if our selecters dont watch the games or take the best performers on A tours
 
W63L35 said:
How do you hold cricket boards and selectors accountable then for the unfair [read: corrupted] selections then?


Mohammad Ilyas selects his non-performing son-in-law and everybody should say Amen in the name of "supporting the team"? I sorry, you can tell 18-19 years fans to do that but .... not to everybody!

How do hold selectors accountable for selecting Asad Shafiq over and over again for ODIs when he averaged only 18 but players like Najaf can not get a single game?

How would you hold a Chairman like SYK who says that Fawad Alam was not selected for WC 2015 because he is a test player - and yet he selects a bigger and better test player to lead ODI team? Not to mention, Fawad is still not in the test team even though Chairman himself admitted that!

You are an Australian therefore you will not understand the culture! But I am sure you understand how and why Kerry Packer took ACB to the task when he felt cheated! I wish there was ONE Kerry Packer in Pakistan to teach these hand picked PCB Chairmen like SYK and NSethi a lesson!

Good on najaf shah! I'll be cheering for him! Wish him best of luck!
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Like any job, cricket selectors are held accountable by their employers, not by the people they are selecting (or not selecting). There is no obligation to select anyone, it is a privilege not a right. Given the way your cricket board and selection panel is set up, your patron (the Prime Minister) is the entity they are accountable to. Not players.

As for Kerry Packer, he saw a business opportunity and took it. There's nothing preventing some billionaire in Pakistan from doing the same.
 
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s28 said:
i think fair enough action by him

he gets some publicity for his case even if he does not win court case

we know PCB admin and selection committees can be revolving door so maybe someone currently outside the system will take up his case and then when they are in position they can pick him

now media will concentrate on his performance and after every pak loss the management and think tank will have to answer questions on why najaf not selected

the wider point is what is point of having domestic system if our selecters dont watch the games or take the best performers on A tours
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totally agree with this.
 
Guy plays in the Silver leegue which is effectively 2nd tier of our domestic structure.

if a first division department deems hm not good enough for them to sign him up then i dont know why is he compaining abt national selectors
 
Yup met him in Dallas today. Guy has a professional LinkedIn profile now related to his field.
 
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