
Everyone heard Chris Broad and Simon Taufel take Pakistan’s security claims to the cleaners when addressing the media. Now the Pakistan Cricket Board has set its targets on the match referee with Javed Miandad even demanding that the ICC ban him!
There is no justice in speaking the truth. That is what match referee Chris Broad officiating in the series that saw the fateful Sri Lanka’s tour to Pakistan end in bloodshed.
But the Chairman of the PCB, Ejaz Butt, is up in arms over the referee’s claims stating that he was clearly overstretched the mark and was not accurately reporting what he had borne witness to. Butt claimed that Broad was “telling lies”.
A day later, Javed Miandad, former Pakistan player and in an uncertain position of Director General of the PCB not many months ago, was furious with Broad and even stated that the PCB should demand the ICC to ban Broad for his commemnts.
Miandad vented his ire over Broad’s comments that there were no policemen around and that the officials were left as sitting ducks, “I was the head of the organising committee when Broad was here for the One-Day series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka and at that time he praised the security arrangements but refused to say that in public. How can he say these things in public now? Policemen gave their lives to save the Sri Lankan team and the officials’ van. If they vanished from the scene how come they were killed?”
He spoke of Pakistan’s troubles in the aftermath and praised the Sri Lankan cricketers, “Tuesday’s attacks, which killed eight people and left seven players injured, were a serious blow for cricket in Pakistan, where millions follow the game passionately, and has deepened the isolation of a country now shunned by much of the world cricket community. I salute Sri Lanka. They agreed to come here when no team wanted to come here. The way the Sri Lankan players have reacted to the attacks was positive but others like Broad are adding fuel to the fire.”
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PCB needs to take into consideration a broader picture from here on.