**PCB looks towards former Test cricketers for support **
By our correspondent
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would host a gathering of several former national Test cricketers and other stakeholders on November 15 in Lahore in a bid to lift the sport out of the present crisis.
A PCB spokesman told this correspondent that the Board is preparing a long list of invitees that would include some of its harshest critics for the one-day seminar. Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan, who has been the biggest critic of Pakistani cricket administrators in recent times, would also be invited for the moot.
The move to hold the exercise came from PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf.
“The idea is to have everybody associated with Pakistan cricket sit down together and discuss ways and means to lift the sport,” said the spokesman.
The idea is not a new one as a few other previous PCB chiefs also hosted similar moots to get suggestions from former Test cricketers.
Dr Ashrafís immediate predecessor Shaharyar Khan also staged a similar seminar after his appointment as the PCB chairman. Nothing concrete ever came out of such events which were seldom repeated by the PCB in the past.
However, the spokesman said that this time the PCB is planning to hold such seminars at regular intervals.
For the first episode, several Test cricketers including a few who are settled abroad would be invited. They include former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal, who lives in England. Apart from the cricketers, the PCB would also invite representatives from the corporate sector for the seminar.
The objective of the moot would be to underline measures that are to be taken for the improvement of the game at the domestic level as well as raising the graph of Pakistanís performance internationally.
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is also expected to attend the workshop though it would be held on the final day of the first Test against the West Indies in Lahore starting from November 11.
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