BREAKING NEWS : Miandad quits as PCB director

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Miandad quits as PCB director
Cricinfo staff
January 28, 2009

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Javed Miandad has resigned from his position as PCB director general with immediate effect. © Getty Images
Javed Miandad has resigned as director general of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), bringing to an abrupt end his fourth stint with the board since retiring as a player. At a little over two months, it was considerably shorter than any of his three tenures as coach.
Miandad resigned after differences emerged over the exact scope of his role.There was always a lack of clarity over the exact nature of his work. He spoke openly of it as being a troubleshooting role of sorts, delving into whatever areas needed fixing.
He unveiled grand plans for domestic cricket, but talked of removing ICL bans and played an active part in arranging the Sri Lanka tour of three ODIs. He was also known to have said that he would don a tracksuit and get out on the field to coach if needed.
But in the contract the board offered to him yesterday, which defined his role for the first time since he took over, he found that only domestic affairs were within his ambit. “The PCB wanted to restrict me to domestic affairs and I don’t want any interference in my work. I have therefore resigned,” Miandad told AFP.
Though human resources director and administration Wasim Bari refused to confirm the news, another board official said that Miandad wasn’t happy with the contract. “He didn’t like what he had been offered,” the official told Cricinfo. “The scope of the role was that he look after domestic cricket, infrastructure growth and work with the games director at the National Cricket Academy and be based in Karachi. He wanted more.”
Though Miandad was one of the few men not in favour of the captaincy change that saw Younis Khan replace Shoaib Malik - it wasn’t the personnel as much as what he saw as the panic-stricken reaction to defeat which he objected to - it is understood that had nothing to do with his final decision.

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Re: BREAKING NEWS : Miandad quits as PCB director

:smack:

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Re: BREAKING NEWS : Miandad quits as PCB director

so what................. that is his nature accepting and resigned

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Re: BREAKING NEWS : Miandad quits as PCB director

we're not going to get anywhere when the very foundation of cricket in Pakistan suffers at the hands of these out-of-control-ego executives. We've encountered a host of problems just because execs and players can't set aside their egos for the greater good of the game and the country.

As an organization, PCB needs to get its act together and come up with job descriptions before designating roles and assignments... and they need to revamp their culture where seniority trumps performance. Until these issues are resolved, we're gonna hafta live with the daily soap opera that is Pakistan Cricket.

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It is easy to blame Miandad here but I feel it is PCB's faulty entirely for not having specified his exact role beforehand. As Pakistan's greatest batsman ever (certainly IMO) Miandad deserves more respect. He's perfectly within his rights to resign if in his opinion the job was nothing more than 'time pass'

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I do agree that its PCB's fault. Even though Miandad has made a habit of resigning, before being giving the fancy title of Director of PCB, they should have defined the role of that position.

Although I dont see any reason why he couldnt work with the Pakistani cricket in the domestic level. Anyways, he has the right to chose what he wants to be involved with & what his interests are.

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OK, it may be PCB's fault for not defining his exact role; why did the big mouth accept the job offer in the first place.

Shouldn't he have clarified what his role / responsabilities were before accepting the position?

Whats's his excuse this time for his resignation?

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Next time you get the offer of becoming regional manager from Ford or production manager from Dell, don't except it and demand clear responsibilities writeup :)

Although Miandad is a big mouth but I dont know who is at the back of Saleem Altaf. This guy seems to be pangay baaz under all administrations and no one has been able to get rid off him be it Nasim Ashraf be it Butt uncle or anyone else. Apparently Miandad resigned due to clash with him. In fact Salim Altaf was not even in PCB when Miandad was offered the job but then Salim Altaf's "parchi" worked :)

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One of the reason he quit is because he didn’t think Younis should be made captain. Thank God be quit. :smack:

Problem with PCB officials is they want full authority over everything. Don’t question them and they’ll be alright. They all want to do things their way. Bunch of :lb:

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Mr Javed will no serve as a cricket ambassador to China. He has been apponted directly by the great and visionary President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mr Asif Ali Barbadi.