PTT makes weird recommendations for Pak cricket – P-I

By: Anisuddin Khan





KARACHI - Pakistan Task Team (PTT) set up two years ago has finally submitted a long list of recommendations aimed at improving and reforming the working of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). A close study of the 65 recommendation released two days ago reveal that the PTT has interfered and overstepped its mandate in areas where it was not asked to make any suggestion. The PTT in one stroke of pen has totally rejected everything good that was done in the past sixty years.
List of recommendations by ICC-Pakistan Task Team 
1) ICC members should continue to support PCB through fulfilment of FTP commitments at neutral venues in circumstances where safety and security remains a concern. 
2) Where ICC members are confident following their own risk assessments, they should consider touring Pakistan to honour their FTP commitments
3) ICC President and CE should continue to facilitate ongoing discussions on the resumption of bilateral series with India
4) ICC should support ongoing activity involving the Pakistan ambassadors (Brearley and Chappell) to keep issues relating to tours involving Pakistan in the public eye. 
5) ICC management should continue with ongoing monitoring of PCB’s implementation of these important integrity-related actions and provide six-monthly integrity updates to the ICC Board through to the end of 2012.
6) There must be stability in the composition of the Selection Committee. 
7) The Selection Committee should be granted sole responsibility and be held accountable for all selection issues. No outside interference should be allowed.
8) There should be a clear process for the nomination and the appointment of candidates to the Selection Committee, including the Chairman of Selectors. 
9) Appointments of Selectors should be approved by the Governing Board which should also retain the right to remove selectors for valid reason.
10) Clear criteria should be determined for appointees to the Selection Committee including a requirement of previous first class, and, preferably, international playing experience. 
11) The Chairman’s right of veto on the selection of players should be removed.