Javed Miandad: “We should move on and forget about them”

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Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to stop hounding India to play a bilateral series.

The PCB have been chasing after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to honour a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) they signed back in 2014.

According to the MoU, Pakistan and India are supposed to play each other six times between 2015 and 2023. However, both the series in 2015 and 2017 didn’t go ahead as planned.

The PCB have since explored taking legal action against the BCCI, but Miandad insists that the board are wasting their time as India seem to have no interest in playing Pakistan.

“They (India) don’t want to play with us, so be it. Our cricket will not die if we don’t play with India. We should move on and forget about them,” Miandad was quoted as saying by NDTV. “They haven’t played against us since the last 10 years, so what? Has our cricket gone down? No we have done well. The Champions Trophy win is an example.

“Cricket cannot die in Pakistan. We have also survived without international cricket at home since 2009.”

Meanwhile, Miandad called on the PCB to keep a closer eye on their finances and said the board don’t need so many employees.

“Today the PCB is financially stable but there is a need for proper accountability of where the money that comes from the ICC is spent,” he said. “There is a need to reduce the administrative expenses of the board and get rid of this army of advisors, consultants and employees.

“The PCB can easily function without paying such heavy salaries to an oversized staff.”