Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Thursday said if Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wants to improve cricket, it must get rid of blue-eyed boys and bring in the experts who understand cricket.
In a tweet, the PTI chairman in an obvious reference to PCB's Executive Committee Chairman Najam Sethi said that the chairman PCB must get rid of blue-eyed boys as this is the only way to improve cricket in the country.
"If the chair [PCB] wants to do this, he must get rid of Sifarishi, election-fixer, and call in the experts who understand the game," he tweeted while referring to Sethi who, according to him, rigged the 2013 general election for Nawaz Sharif as the then caretaker chief minister of Punjab province.
Imran Khan tweeted this after Chairman PCB Shaharyar Khan said that he would invite the PTI chairman, a former cricket star, among others to a roundtable conference of current and former test players in Lahore on March 6 and 7 to seek their views for the improvement of national and junior teams' performance.
A selected number of test players will be invited to attend the conference which will be co-chaired by Chief Selector PCB Inzamam-ul-Haq and Director Academies PCB Mudassar Nazar. Head Coach NCA, Mushtaq Ahmed will be the co-ordinator of the conference.
The PCB said that it would send invitation to Imran Khan, Misbah ul Haq, Younus Khan, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Zaheer Abbas, Wasim Bari, Shoaib Akhtar, Aamir Sohail, Javed Miandad, Rashid Latif, Ramiz Raja, Moin Khan, Abdul Qadir, Aaqib Javed, Iqbal Qasim, Bazid Khan, Saeed Ajmal and several others.
The chairmen of committees and members of board of governors will also be invited to attend the roundtable conference. The agenda of the roundtable will be: a) improving team performance; b) domestic structure; c) improvement of pitches; d) coaching of national and junior teams; e) and encouraging of foreign teams to tour Pakistan.
When contacted, a senior PTI official said that Imran Khan is yet to receive the invitation but he is unlikely to participate in the roundtable, adding Imran has already conveyed his message through his tweet.