LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to review central contracts after Pakistan team’s humiliating exit from ICC tournament.
The late-night consultations headed by PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi and the board officials, as per the sources, players with poor performances are expected to be demoted with regards to their central contracts in the first phase .and several others are likely to lose their central contracts altogether.
This decision comes after the Pak cricket team have been eliminated from the ongoing mega event and failed to even proceed to the Super Eight stage of the tournament after losing their two initial matches against the new entrant United States and arch-rivals India.
With the match between the US and Ireland abandoned due to rain on Friday, the co-hosts secured one point, consequently ending Pakistan’s hopes of proceeding in the tournament.
The national team’s last league game against Ireland will only be a formality after which the squad will return home.
According to the Sources, the board is likely to make significant changes in the team with players including Mohammad Amir, Imad Wasim, Iftikhar Ahmed, Azam Khan, and Usman Khan expected to face difficulties in maintaining their place in the national side’s future.
The sources also said that a group of three players in the Pakistan team were blackmailing PCB officials at the directive of the players’ manager, who represents all three players and had pressurised the board to secure a significant remuneration increase in the players’ central contracts
Earlier this week, PCB chief also hinted at major changes in the national team and said: “It seemed that a minor surgery would work but after this bad performance, I’m now sure that a major surgery is required. The nation will soon see a major overhaul.”
Previously, The players had pressurised former PCB Chairman Zaka Ashraf to secure a three-year central contract last year, which came into effect from July 1, provisioning increased remunerations.
The board will now decide on the prospects of keeping the current remuneration packages of the players.
