{"id":63032,"date":"2019-05-08T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=63032"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:07:02","slug":"pm-responds-to-miandad-on-departmental-cricket-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pm-responds-to-miandad-on-departmental-cricket-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"PM responds to Miandad on departmental cricket issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan and Javed Miandad were teammates for the national team and part of the side which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup<br \/>\nNEWS DESK<br \/>\nISLAMABAD<br \/>\nPrime Minister Imran Khan on Monday during a session with senior journalists responded to former captain Javed Miandad\u2019s criticism of abolishing departmental cricket.<br \/>\n\u201cJaved has his opinion,\u201d the prime minister said as he stressed that nowhere else in the world would sponsors field their teams in tournaments.<br \/>\n\u201cAcross the world, there are local matches. Pakistan is the only country where sponsors have teams. I have been asking for this structure to be fixed since my cricket playing days.\u201d<br \/>\nThe prime minister asked why Pakistan was the only country where departments were paying players. \u201cI can guarantee that no one can beat Pakistan if this corrupt system is fixed.\u201d<br \/>\nPrime Minister Khan told journalists that no other country in the world had the amount of talent Pakistan did. \u201cThe problem is that the system does not allow for the talent to come up.\u201d<br \/>\nPrime Minister Imran Khan who is Patron in Chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has told the chairman Ehsan Mani to abolish departments\u2019 role in cricket structure and restrict the domestic first-class tournaments to six provincial teams.<br \/>\nOn April 27, in a news conference together with Jahangir Khan and Islahuddin Siddique, Miandad was critical of the prime minister\u2019s decision, stating departmental cricket was a way for players to earn a living. The former Pakistan legend said that till there were departmental cricket and sports, the country was making great strides.<br \/>\n\u201cI can say with surety that if it wasn\u2019t for PIA, Jahangir Khan wouldn\u2019t be Jahangir Khan.\u201d Miandad said the biggest problem facing Pakistan was the country\u2019s economy. \u201cPeople want jobs, no one wants to play cricket or hockey. Their helplessness is being taken advantage of.\u201d<br \/>\nJaved Miandad further said Prime Minister Imran Khan had himself played country cricket in England. \u201cWere we crazy to play there? We played because of the money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan and Javed Miandad were teammates for the national team and part of the side which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup NEWS DESK ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday during a session with senior journalists responded to former captain Javed Miandad\u2019s criticism of abolishing departmental cricket. \u201cJaved has his opinion,\u201d the prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM responds to Miandad on departmental cricket issue<\/title>\n<meta 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