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"This is about Pakistan cricket, the damage has been done to all due to today's events" : Wasim Khan
Wasim Khan speaking at a press conference
"We will be looking at other windows and we hope to play the event at a later time"
"We are carefully exiting players from our environment, so that we can safely get them out and they can travel to wherever they wish to travel to"
"In terms of moving forward, we want to continue and finish the PSL 6 as we did with PSL 5"
"It is our belief that we will find a window and finish the matches at a later date"
"We had to deal with a minor breach at the beginning and we did what we possibly could but with any SOPs in a bio-secure bubble, it takes partnerships, it takes discipline and it takes self-policing and I think these are all important factors for all of us to remember"
"This isn't about a blame game or to say who's to blame, we have to remember that this was a collective effort and we all had a responsibility to police and self-police that environment"
"Unfortunately we weren't able to do that effectively enough and hence we find ourselves in that position"
"When players start to lose confidence - because bio-security is about trust, there has to be trust for players and there has to be trust within all partners working together"
"We have to recognize that internationally this will obviously make news, it's a difficult day because a lot of time and effort has gone into our last premier tournament of the year, which is PSL and yes we have postponed it but as a nation we remain resilient, and as PCB we remain resilient with the support of the franchises that we make sure we complete the remaining games by the end of the year"
"Building trust again will take time and effort but we are determined to learn from the mistakes that were made, hopefully everyone will learn from these mistakes to make sure this type of thing doesn't happen again"
"There are a lot of emotions at the moment, the franchises have invested a lot of money, everyone's invested time to make PSL work, so there will always be a lot of emotion in the first 24 hours of any such thing - but I will say what I have said before that any environment will work if everyone's on the same page"
"Why did our domestic cricket work? Because it was being policed - We had 30 odd matches across 2 venues, we delivered the SA series which was bilateral but we also delivered with multiple teams involved"
"So yes there is response coming from the franchises but this is not about blaming anybody"
"This is about Pakistan cricket and the damage has been done to all due to events of today"
"There is a lot of work to be done to get Pakistan up and running and to get it where it has been"
"First thing we will do now is to investigate this issue but its not the PCB staff who will do that"
"We will put it to the BoG and instigate the process to see what went wrong, what did we not deliver, where did we not fulfil"
"When such things happen, every one questions themselves and its a time of reflection but at the moment, we are focused on making sure that all players leave safely and making sure that we limit the damage to Pakistan cricket"
"This is because the damage is far-reaching and we need to make sure we manage it and control it so that we can rise again like Pakistan cricket has done in the past"
"Let the investigation happen and the recommendation will come out of that, and then its the decision of the BoG and Chairman to implement"
When we send players to play Golf, they are administered but the main thing is that there is an outlet for them"
"The protocols were shared with the franchises on the 18th of February which set out how we were looking to make this work"
"We don't know if it was picked up at the Golf but we made sure that there were no people around, the vicinity was clear so we are comfortable that the environment (Golf) was not where they picked up the positive result from"
"The SOP plans on paper only work in practice when all parties cooperate"
"My recommendation was to have a 5 day break with 3 test in between but the franchises were very clear that the players were very nervous, anxious and very apprehensive; Then there were 3 more cases overnight so there was a trickle effect"
"So, whilst our hope was to suspend matters and then continue, they (franchises) made it clear that the players were not in a mental state to continue"
"So the 3 additional overnight cases - the franchises checked the atmosphere in their camps and it was clear that the majority of player do not want to continue; The franchises felt very uncomfortable, like we did, in putting players under additional risk when there was no need to"
In response to Chris Lynn selfie with a fan (on Tuesday night)
"Look whenever there is a breach like this one - and you showed me the picture - we provide guidelines to the cricketers to say this is what is expected and they need to follow them, and these are the same guidelines given to franchises; But I am talking about self-policing where its got to work for everybody and the players themselves have to take responsibility; So in this case, (the player should have asked himself) a player has just been found to be positive, so therefore is it a good idea for me to be doing this? the answer is no; So again these are number of lessons we have to learn"
Wasim Khan speaking at a press conference
"We will be looking at other windows and we hope to play the event at a later time"
"We are carefully exiting players from our environment, so that we can safely get them out and they can travel to wherever they wish to travel to"
"In terms of moving forward, we want to continue and finish the PSL 6 as we did with PSL 5"
"It is our belief that we will find a window and finish the matches at a later date"
"We had to deal with a minor breach at the beginning and we did what we possibly could but with any SOPs in a bio-secure bubble, it takes partnerships, it takes discipline and it takes self-policing and I think these are all important factors for all of us to remember"
"This isn't about a blame game or to say who's to blame, we have to remember that this was a collective effort and we all had a responsibility to police and self-police that environment"
"Unfortunately we weren't able to do that effectively enough and hence we find ourselves in that position"
"When players start to lose confidence - because bio-security is about trust, there has to be trust for players and there has to be trust within all partners working together"
"We have to recognize that internationally this will obviously make news, it's a difficult day because a lot of time and effort has gone into our last premier tournament of the year, which is PSL and yes we have postponed it but as a nation we remain resilient, and as PCB we remain resilient with the support of the franchises that we make sure we complete the remaining games by the end of the year"
"Building trust again will take time and effort but we are determined to learn from the mistakes that were made, hopefully everyone will learn from these mistakes to make sure this type of thing doesn't happen again"
"There are a lot of emotions at the moment, the franchises have invested a lot of money, everyone's invested time to make PSL work, so there will always be a lot of emotion in the first 24 hours of any such thing - but I will say what I have said before that any environment will work if everyone's on the same page"
"Why did our domestic cricket work? Because it was being policed - We had 30 odd matches across 2 venues, we delivered the SA series which was bilateral but we also delivered with multiple teams involved"
"So yes there is response coming from the franchises but this is not about blaming anybody"
"This is about Pakistan cricket and the damage has been done to all due to events of today"
"There is a lot of work to be done to get Pakistan up and running and to get it where it has been"
"First thing we will do now is to investigate this issue but its not the PCB staff who will do that"
"We will put it to the BoG and instigate the process to see what went wrong, what did we not deliver, where did we not fulfil"
"When such things happen, every one questions themselves and its a time of reflection but at the moment, we are focused on making sure that all players leave safely and making sure that we limit the damage to Pakistan cricket"
"This is because the damage is far-reaching and we need to make sure we manage it and control it so that we can rise again like Pakistan cricket has done in the past"
"Let the investigation happen and the recommendation will come out of that, and then its the decision of the BoG and Chairman to implement"
When we send players to play Golf, they are administered but the main thing is that there is an outlet for them"
"The protocols were shared with the franchises on the 18th of February which set out how we were looking to make this work"
"We don't know if it was picked up at the Golf but we made sure that there were no people around, the vicinity was clear so we are comfortable that the environment (Golf) was not where they picked up the positive result from"
"The SOP plans on paper only work in practice when all parties cooperate"
"My recommendation was to have a 5 day break with 3 test in between but the franchises were very clear that the players were very nervous, anxious and very apprehensive; Then there were 3 more cases overnight so there was a trickle effect"
"So, whilst our hope was to suspend matters and then continue, they (franchises) made it clear that the players were not in a mental state to continue"
"So the 3 additional overnight cases - the franchises checked the atmosphere in their camps and it was clear that the majority of player do not want to continue; The franchises felt very uncomfortable, like we did, in putting players under additional risk when there was no need to"
In response to Chris Lynn selfie with a fan (on Tuesday night)
"Look whenever there is a breach like this one - and you showed me the picture - we provide guidelines to the cricketers to say this is what is expected and they need to follow them, and these are the same guidelines given to franchises; But I am talking about self-policing where its got to work for everybody and the players themselves have to take responsibility; So in this case, (the player should have asked himself) a player has just been found to be positive, so therefore is it a good idea for me to be doing this? the answer is no; So again these are number of lessons we have to learn"
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