‘He got here for six days and now he’s again the place he belongs’: Wasim Akram on Rameez Raja’s tenure as PCB chief

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‘He got here for six days and now he’s again the place he belongs’: Wasim Akram on Rameez Raja’s tenure as PCB chief

Former Pakistan pacer, Wasim Akram shared his views on Rameez Raja’s tenure as the top of the Pakistan Cricket Board, saying that he thought the publish was not mandated just for former cricketers.

“Look, I do not wish to focus on this. Vo 6 din ke liye aaya tha, ab vo vaapis aa gaya hai apni jagah pe. (He got here right here for six days, now he is again to the place he belongs),” Akram instructed Cricket Pakistan.

About Raja’s successor, he additional mentioned, “Najam Sethi has experience, and there is no concept that only cricketers should be PCB chairman. You need to be a good administrator, and you need to be a good communicator.” And have to make repo with different boards. Najam Sethi sir is the perfect on this. People might disagree for all I care. This is my opinion.”

After being sacked from the cricket board, Raja had mentioned that no cricketer, together with Akram, would have escaped a ban for being named in Justice Qayyum’s report on match-fixing, if he had been.

“I feel nobody should have got the chance (to come back to Pakistan cricket). If Wasim Akram’s name is there, and he was censured for not cooperating, right? It was a borderline case. If I was the decision maker at that time, I would have banned him forever,” the previous PCB chairman had mentioned in a TV interview.

Raja was eliminated as PCB chairman in December final yr after the boys’s crew misplaced 3-0 to England within the dwelling Test sequence.

“When your tenure is of three years, and you are sidelined after one year for a political appointment, cricket will suffer because of political interference. When there is no continuity and people are given backdoor entry, what kind of standard will be maintained?” Raja later mentioned throughout a YouTube stream on his channel.


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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