Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Legendary Javed Miandad and former Pakisani cricketer has replied to the statement made by BCCI president Anurag Thakur who said that Pakistan shouldn’t bother playing India because India always backstabs Pakistan in cricket.

Miandad questioned the BCCI saying did anybody from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) or the International Cricket Council (ICC) ever asked India to play with Pakistan, then why was Anurag giving such type of statements.

It may be mentioned that Anurag, who is also a leader of the ruling BJP in India, in a recent statement last week said that there was no question of playing cricket with Pakistan.

Miandad said Pakistan team had so many threats in the World Twenty20 held this year in India but still they went to play there because they were sportsmen and didn’t use backdoors to escape from such type of situations.

“The BCCI is full of such type of people, who for their own benefit can get down to your feet but when their interests are fulfilled they pretend like they don’t know you,” he said.

Returning to the country’s cricketing affairs, Miandad praised the Pakistan Twenty20 team and skipper Sarfraz Ahmed for the victory against West Indies.

“Our Twenty20 team is way far better than West Indies and the green-shirts should clean sweep the series,” he said.

Miandad said: “Our ODI team needs a lot of improvement and for that, we need to fix our domestic structure.

Only captain Azhar Ali should not be blamed for the poor show against England as the whole team didn’t perform.

Every player needs to play their role in the ODI series against West Indies.”

Miandad said the PCB also needed to improve its cricket managing affairs.

“The right people (who know how to improve the game) should be given the right job,” he added.