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 closing between India and Australia. ICC chairman Jay Shah may very well be seen on the stage, handing the trophy to the successful 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 time limit regardless of Pakistan being the official hosts for the event.
Because the ceremony concluded, there’s been loads of outrage in Pakistan over the style during which 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 show reside after the ultimate in Dubai, Akram highlighted that PCB COO Sumair Ahmed Syed was on the venue, rather than chairman Mohsin Naqvi as PCB’s consultant, however he was nowhere to be seen throughout the ceremony.
“So far as I do know, Chairman Saab (PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi) wasn’t nicely however the folks that got here from there (PCB) had been Sumair Ahmad Syed (Chief Working Officer of PCB) and Usman Wahla (Director of Worldwide for PCB) however nobody was there on the stage,” he mentioned.
The incident has since snowballed into an enormous controversy, with many questions being requested from the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) over the incident.
“We had been the host, weren’t we proper? How come even the COO of PCB or whoever it might be who was representing Chairman Saab, why weren’t they on stage? Have been they not invited? I do not know what’s the story. It undoubtedly regarded odd to me whereas sitting right here. Pakistani, koi na koi stage par khada hona bahot jaruri tha. Chahe wo cup na de, chahe wo medal na de however any individual ought to’ve been there. (It was crucial that one of many representatives from Pakistan ought to have had illustration in any type, would not matter if that individual was giving the Cup, medals or not),” added Akram.
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