da 888casino： The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Monday defended itsdecision to reduce Riazuddin to a TV umpire in theforthcoming Test series against the West Indies at Sharjah
15-Jan-2002The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Monday defended itsdecision to reduce Riazuddin to a TV umpire in theforthcoming Test series against the West Indies at Sharjah.”The recommendation of National Umpiring Council wereimplemented. The council comes under the Cricket ManagementCommittee,” director of the PCB Brig Munawwar Rana said fromLahore.Riazuddin was not given a field umpire’s posting despitebeing Pakistan’s representative in the International CricketCouncil (ICC) panel of umpires. Riazuddin has got the mostforeign assignments as compared to his compatriot Mian Aslamwho has been given the first Test.The second Test will be supervized by Shakeel Khan who was aTV umpire for the second Test against England in 2000 ontourists protest.Riazuddin was also not given any of the three one-dayinternationals for which Saleem Badar, Asad Rauf, NadeemGhauri and Aleem Dar were named.The PCB official admitted that it might hurt Riazuddin’sfuture postings by the ICC, but stressed that the board onlyimplemented the council’s recommendations.The chairman of the CMC, Iqbal Qasim, said Riaz was notgiven the Test just to give others an opportunity.”The ICC is to constitute an elite eight-umpire panel fromApril. Others have been awarded an opportunity to show howgood they are in decisions making,” he said.The official, when inquired what was the criterion forrecommendation, repeated that the PCB only implemented therecommendations.The spokesman said the PCB will bear all the expenses of theTest series. “The PCB, being the host board, will bear allthe expenses. This is the most comprehensive answer I cangive,” he said when inquired of the details and break-up.Interestingly, the PCB has already announced that theSharjah series will be a “no profit no loss” venture withthe marketing department yet to reveal its home work and theboard to audit the expenses.