LAHORE - Cricket circles have urged Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to implement its code of conduct for office-bearers of regional bodies in true letter and spirit to stop unnecessary criticism and creation of controversies in cricketing affairs.
“It has become a common practice that office-bearers of regional associations are giving statements on media without knowing the seriousness of the issues related to cricket and by that way controversies are being surfaced to harm the interest of cricket at early level,” they said here on Wednesday.
They said the responsibility of regional cricket bodies and the clubs affiliated to the board was to promote cricket at grassroots and to find ways and means for its betterment but they have deviated from their cause by involving them by coming up with statements which were disrupting the functioning of respective bodies and promoting disunity among them.
They said one such example is Lahore Regional Cricket Association (LRCA) secretary who had been served a show-cause notice by the PCB for his undue criticism recently on a TV programme which had put a question mark on the working of the LRCA.
“PCB is showing zero tolerance against such incidents or actions and it banned KCCA secretary Ijaz Farooqi for one year for a similar offence and we believe the board will deal this case in a similar way without taking any pressure from any quarter to help maintain discipline in LRCA,” they added.
They demanded of the PCB to take steps to ensure the bodies work within their domain to help the board for the development of grassroots.