Wasim Khan is ridiculously overpaid for the job that he is supposed to do. 40 lakhs per month amounts to 48 crore rupees per year. That is an absurd and completely irrational amount of money to supervise domestic cricket and the day to day to activities of PCB. And this is just the base salary - it doesn’t include other allowances, bonuses, perks, logistics etc.
We have to look at it this way - does his job description justify a package of roughly 50 crore rupees per year? I really don’t think so. It is a clear example of inefficient use of recourses and not taking effective cost-cutting measures.
He is getting ridiculously overpaid because of he is a British national and the “I left England to help Pakistan cricket” drama. Yes for a British national who was working with the ECB, 40 lakhs per months is not a big sum, but it is an absurd amount of money per annum for PCB.
PCB got swayed by his British accent and his work experience with the ECB, but that is not a pre-requisite. You don’t need someone who has worked with the ECB to improve Pakistan’s domestic cricket. Pakistan is not England and what worked for England may not work for Pakistan.
More interestingly, he didn’t even implement his own system. He was simply handed the structure approved by Imran “PM should not intervene in PCB affairs unless the PM is a cricket legend like me” Khan.
Imran Khan has botched many appointments in his tenure and Ehsan Mani is one of them, who in turn botched by appointing a ridiculously overpaid foreign national when it wasn’t necessary.
Who is going to be answerable when 50 crore rupees go to waste every year? How much many does PCB have anyway? Haven’t they been left dry by the “corrupt” Sethi and the lost legal battles with BCCI?
Reading your post I was thinking wow I actually agree with Mamoon - for the PCB, 48 crore is massive. Then other posters pointed out that the salary 4.8 crore and it became apparent that everything you wrote was, well, fake news.
What's worse is that instead of saying ah ok my point no longer stands, you've doubled down and said no point still applies that 4.8 crore is too much. It's always better to own up when you're wrong - contrary to what you might think, it makes people respect you more and not less.
4.8 crore is certainly not a massive salary for one of the most high profile roles in Pakistani cricket. In fact, I would argue its grossly below par. It actually gives me new found respect for Wasim - he's clearly got the interests of Pakistani cricket at heart otherwise for this sort of money, he simply wouldn't have uprooted his life in Britain where he was clearly more than comfortable. It's not like his career was going down the drain here in England - by all accounts he was doing very well and he was not under the unreasonable media pressure that comes with his new role. I absolutely love Pakistani cricket but even for me, in his situation, that would have been a tough life choice and I'm not certain I would have taken it.
So, instead of carrying out an unjustified character assassination of Wasim, I think you and other Pakistani fans should be applauding the fact that we finally have someone in charge of Pakistani cricket who is a) competent and b) not looking to line his pockets with the PCB's cash. That is an extremely rare combination which I'm not sure we've ever had before.
Wasim has my unquestionable support and it's about time other so called Pakistani cricket fans got behind him too. If every time someone tries to do good things for Pakistani cricket, we the fans and the media, scare them away, then we simply will never progress as a cricketing nation. So let's back Wasim, give him time to achieve results and make him feel welcome in the Pakistani set up.
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