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Wasim Akram in a Champions Trophy present© YouTube
The cricketing fraternity in Pakistan was left scratching its heads upon its failure to identify a single Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official on the presentation ceremony after the conclusion of the ICC Champions Trophy last between India and Australia. ICC chairman Jay Shah may very well be seen on the stage, handing the trophy to the profitable captain Rohit Sharma and distributing medals to all gamers. However, not one of the PCB officers grew to become a part of the proceedings on the stage at any cut-off date regardless of Pakistan being the official hosts for the match.
For the reason that ceremony concluded, there’s been loads of outrage in Pakistan over the style wherein all of it unfolded. Pakistan legend Wasim Akram admitted being flabbergasted over the absence of PCB officers from the ceremony.
Communicate on the Dressing Room present dwell after the ultimate in Dubai, Akram highlighted that PCB COO Sumair Ahmed Syed was on the venue, instead of chairman Mohsin Naqvi as PCB’s consultant, however he was nowhere to be seen in the course of the ceremony.
“As far as I know, Chairman Saab (PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi) wasn’t well but the people that came from there (PCB) were Sumair Ahmad Syed (Chief Operating Officer of PCB) and Usman Wahla (Director of International for PCB) but no one was there on the stage,” he stated.
The incident has since snowballed into an enormous controversy, with many questions being requested from the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) over the incident.
“We were the host, weren’t we right? How come even the COO of PCB or whoever it may be who was representing Chairman Saab, why weren’t they on stage? Were they not invited? I don’t know what is the story. It definitely looked odd to me while sitting here. Pakistani, koi na koi stage par khada hona bahot jaruri tha. Chahe wo cup na de, chahe wo medal na de but somebody should’ve been there. (It was imperative that one of the representatives from Pakistan should have had representation in any form, doesn’t matter if that person was giving the Cup, medals or not),” added Akram.
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