Afridi: don't let the door hit you on the way out

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Re: Afridi: don’t let the door hit you on the way out

@Jolie

This is the real tragedy, but still not the end of the story. If there is no international cricket taking place, revamp the domestic cricket!

Get rid of extremely inept and unproductive departmental cricket with regional cricket. Replace the lacklustre and barely watched Habib Bank vs PIA matches with Lahore vs Karachi/Sindh vs KPK or North vs South tournaments and you see how the passion for cricket flourishes in Pakistan, and youngsters would work night and day to make it into their City/Province team and play in front the home crowd. Next step would be to televise these domestic matches to increase public interest.

You need vision, integrity and will power to take such bold and daring steps. Above all you need lots of funds to organise something like that, and with so much financial corruption going on in the government, from where will they ‘find’ the money to fund such initiatives?

In short what Pakistan needs is an IPL. Just the other day I was talking to someone, that said, by establishing IPL, they moved all the corrupt people from making money from selection to making money fixing matches. What happened is, if the local talent shines in IPL it is very hard to ignore such talent when it is time to select the national team. Since there is no/less money to make selling slots on the national team, the team selection process is more honest.

In third world countries it is impossible to extricate corruption from day-to-day life. The best way to solve these problems is work around them.