India vs Pakistan Cricket: Former Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ramiz Raja has launched a scathing attack on the Indian government and BCCI. Ramiz Raja stated that the prevailing Indian mindset was to curtail Pakistan cricket’s advancement and the country’s sport needed to become financially independent. Raja was speaking at an event held at Lahore’s Government College University. Follow LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
India vs Pakistan Cricket: Sacked as PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja launches scathing attack on Indian government, says ‘BCCI curtailing Pakistan Cricket’ – Check out
“Unfortunately, what’s happening with India is that there is this BJP mindset over there. The properties that I had
announced, be it the PJL or the Pakistan Women’s League, were done so that we could have our own money-making assets that would fund the Pakistan Cricket Board, which would take us away from the ICC’s funding, which is crucial right now,” said Raja.
He then added, “Our independence gets compromised because most of ICC’s resources are created in India. If India’s mindset is to marginalise Pakistan then we remain neither here nor there.”
India vs Pakistan Cricket: Sacked as PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja launches scathing attack on Indian government, says ‘BCCI curtailing Pakistan Cricket’ – Check out
The former PCB chief Raja also said that he had spoken to the Australia and England cricket boards. He asked them to take leadership roles at the ICC where the organisation wouldn’t bow under the pressure of money.
“I made my position clear on this. If the ACC has nominated us to hold an Asian tournament and if India says one fine day that we won’t go to Pakistan and the Asia Cup will also be taken from here, then all I said was that we have options too.”
At the event, Raja recalled his conversations with Babar Azam. He said, “losing against India was not an option”. He added that this was because the only way to raise the profile of Pakistan cricket was to win silverware. “We have to beat India because only then can we be in a stronger position to negotiate and only then can their narratives be killed,” said Raja.
Raja also spoke about his exit from the Pakistan Cricket Board. He said that the country lacked a process-oriented
approach to developing their cricket. He said, “Entering from the backdoor by bulldozing the constitution and imposing someone on the cricket board – I feel this is unfair on everyone. Everything becomes rudderless. What is right or wrong gets lost in social media reports and I feel this needs to change.”
India vs Pakistan Cricket: Sacked as PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja launches scathing attack on Indian government, says ‘BCCI curtailing Pakistan Cricket’ – Check out
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