Re: Pakistan hunt for bowling talent
And Wasim Akram was the best performer in QA trophey 1984, right???? Or was he picked up by Miandad driving by a park in Lahore?
Some people couldn't get selected for regional teams even, due to some very ugly reason that we all know: Local politics and quotas etc. But thats not the whole point. Have you seen home selling by MLS registered broker? Sometimes they have to hold Open House to let everyone have a chance to look and bid on house. Instead of waiting for a potential buyer brougt by another broker. Most of the time you get better offers/bids in Open House due to hassle free direct approach and lots of customers bidding at the same time.
May be on some street/mohalla there is a potential fast bowler bowling in tape ball night matches, who can never think of going through the club level cricket (may be can't afford it or won't get permission to waste time), who looks at the ad in newspaper for the open invitation in talent hunt program in his town and calls up and gets registered. Who knows he turns out to be the next Shane Bond for the cricket world.
Possiblities we are talking here. Once in two years if they held these kinds of events, it will not harm anyone.