Pakistan Cricket Board administrator Ehsan Mani said on Wednesday that the Pakistan Cricket Board has an incredible desire of welcoming outside cricketers following the patch up of the local cricket structure a year ago yet let it out should hoist its norms so as to accomplish this target. He said this in a wide-extending conversation with cricket creators and antiquarians Peter Oborne and Richard Heller in a digital recording, accessible on the PCB site here on Wednesday.
He stated:
One of the things we are going to do with our first-class cricket is to encourage one or two overseas players to come and play. It is great for our players to be playing with the international players and that’s not going to happen overnight. It is in the next two, three years and we’re working to take our first-class cricket to a complete different level and have it so competitive and so attractive for overseas players to want to play in. I realised what was happening, that the players who played for the departments [in first-class cricket] went and played grade-II cricket for the regions. So, they were blocking the pathway for youngsters who come through grade-II cricket into the first-class game.
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The system was totally whopped. When I looked at the averages and first innings scores of our teams in the first-class matches, the first innings scores were one of the lowest in the world, lower than Zimbabwe. So, I knew something was not right. I concluded that we needed to have quality and quantity “Without cutting back on the opportunities for the youngsters to play cricket and working their way up if they are good enough. So what we have done is we have set-up six Cricket Associations with hundred cities playing cricket between them. So, 16 to 17 cities per cricket association
