{"id":42249,"date":"2018-01-06T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42249"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:17:38","slug":"stop-running-after-india-miadad-advises-pcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42249","title":{"rendered":"Stop running after India: Miadad advises PCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dubai, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan batting great Javed Miandad has suggested the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stop running after India for playing a series, a sports website reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Miandad, while addressing media in Karachi, said PCB should stop pleading for a series if India is not ready to play against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPCB should not patiently and stop making a fuss about the series with India,\u201d said Miandad. \u201cThey should forget it. There are other countries in the world with whom we can play cricket. We can survive without playing India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PCB believes it has a strong case against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), as the latter signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2014 with the former to play a number of series from 2015 till 2023.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to political tensions on the border both countries share, a series couldn\u2019t materialise after 2012, and Miandad says if fighting a case doesn\u2019t bear any monetary fruit, then it is useless to waste money on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a clause in the MoU which states that the non-playing party will have to pay damages only then we should pursue a case, otherwise, it is a waste of time and money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he and others played cricket in a time when the PCB coffers were nearly empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played cricket in a time when the PCB has nearly nothing in its account,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut now, PCB receives nearly 60 billion in revenues from the International Cricket Council (ICC). They should be questioned on the utilisation of that money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old continued by saying that paying huge amounts to people related to the India case is not justified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia has an upper advantage over Pakistan due to their monetary prowess, but it doesn\u2019t mean we have to beg before them. Board should cut down its cost and avoid paying huge sums to people related to the India case and also on foreign staff for our national cricket team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miandad, like many other former Pakistani cricketers, believes PCB should work on the development of domestic cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDomestic cricket should be worked upon,\u201d he said. \u201cIts standard should be uplifted. Regional heads should play their role in the promotion and betterment of regional cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, Jan. 5 (TNS): Pakistan batting great Javed Miandad has suggested the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stop running after India for playing a series, a sports website reported on Friday. Miandad, while addressing media in Karachi, said PCB should stop pleading for a series if India is not ready to play against Pakistan. \u201cPCB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-42249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42251,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42249\/revisions\/42251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}