LAHORE - Former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Ehsan Mani has said that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is facing a lot of difficulties and standing alone at international level as well as in the International Cricket Council (ICC) due to its non-effective policies and no one is ready to listen them in the ICC meetings. Mani while exclusively talking to Nawa-i-Waqt on telephone from London on Friday said: "India is arch-rival of Pakistan which wants to exclude Pakistan from every game especially in cricket and to conquer major games of the world by investing money on them." He said that BCCI's newly-elected president did not want Pakistan players to take part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and in no mood to give chance to Pakistan in the IPL in future. He held the current officials of the PCB responsible for this and said till they were part of the board no betterment could be seen in the board. The incompetency of the board brought the game back to many years, and it would take a lot of time to revive in the country. In replying a question, Mani said: "No team is ready to visit Pakistan and this situation will continue till the internal situation of Pakistan will not get better." He said that I personally requested the ICC to bring cricket back to Pakistan in order to revive cricket in the country and asked for ICC's assistance as well, but no response from the PCB made this matter dull and then it was totally thrown into dustbin. Pakistan cricket would continue to face decline till the political interference will not be eliminated from the game, he added. The former ICC president said: "It's the dire need of hour to have a PCB Chairman like Tauqeer Zia who has strength to not only bring international cricket back to the country but also present a positive image of the country. Tauqeer Zia has the capability of making the PCB's relations good with ICC as well as other countries' boards." Mani further said that the cricket board was in need of making a professional team and if it did not happen then nothing could happen instead of game's decline in the country. Board's wrong decisions had already destroyed the domestic and club level cricket, he said and added that positive steps must be taken in time to save cricket in the country. When asked about Afrid's matter, Mani replied that Afridi was on mistake and he should have first consult to PCB and solve all the issues without making them public. "It was, after all, Bangladesh's 'turn' to nominate a vice-president who'd eventually succeed New Zealand's Alan Isaac in 2014. Isaac becomes the president next year when Sharad Pawar's tenure comes to an end," he said. "Bangladesh and Pakistan have been clubbed together in the rotation cycle and, given that the latter have already had their chance (Ehsan Mani was the ICC president from 2003-06), Bangladesh had the strongest claim this time." Concluding the talk, Mani said: "The PCB should go side by side with the ICC and should keep the ICC in trust by creating a good strategy for the revival of the game in the country." AZHAR MASOOD KHAN