Playing Cricket with India
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Westridge, Rawalpindi

 

While the “To hell with them” (bhaR mein jaen)  is the unanimous cry of every patriotic Pakistani, one fails to understand as to why the Chairman PCB Sheryar Khan and the Chief of the PCB Executive Committee Najam Sethi are not only so cowed in condemning the ICB explicitly but are still hoping against hope of playing cricket with India at some later time.  

To pay the Indians in the same coin, I bet, PCB would be able to recruit without much ado at least a thousand Indians who would gladly explode crackers for a pittance in the spectators’ galleries during an encounter between a foreign team and Dhoni's side in India.  The horrific stampedes caused by these crackers in just two or three matches would be enough to force the end of foreign teams playing in India. I leave it to the imagination of the PCB to contemplate the fate of cricket in India. “Na khedaan gay na khedan dian gay”!!