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PCB holds seminar on future of Pakistan cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board organised a seminar at Lahore earlier this week to assess the state of the game in the country.

Cricinfo staff
19-Nov-2006
The Pakistan Cricket Board organised a seminar at Lahore earlier this week to assess the state of the game in the country. Called 'Creating a Winning Team: The Future of Cricket in Pakistan', the seminar had participants from all over Pakistan and abroad and included former players, administrators and journalists.
Coming barely two months into the tenure of the new PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf, the seminar looked at ways and means of improving the infrastructure at the grassroots level, of obtaining commercial backing to do that, and the role of coaches and captains. Formulating a strategy to win the World Cup, to be held in the Caribbean in less than six months' time, dominated the discussions.
The absence of legendary former captains like Imran Khan and Javed Maindad, and of Inzamam-ul-Haq and Bob Woolmer, obviously deprived the seminar of crucial inputs. It also provided ammunition to sceptics who denounced the seminar as just another ritual and a publicity-seeking exercise.