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The player who visited jail for at least a day. First of all, Imran Khan who already lived in jail for more than 150 days. He was arrested for fake reasons.
From India, the greatest player of his era Mohammad Azharuddin. What a player he was, but match-fixing destroyed his career, and the second player was also an Indian player who was more better than Mohammad Azharuddin who is Sreesanth and he was also the part of 2011 World Cup that was won by India and on 2013 IPL he was trying to spot-fixing but the knew it that something is wrong and he got arrested by Indian police.

This has been the problem with most of the teams which have been underperforming recently and if we find the root cause, usually their cricket board has problems and due to this they have player selection issues and then overall their team performs lower than their capability.

Now, I will tell you which country had the most trophies in men's cricket so you know the good teams are usually consistent. The Australian team had five ODI World Cups, and until this time, 13 ODIs World Cups were played and from Australian team had 5 trophies of this ODI World Cup, and not only ODI trophies they also had a test championship and two champions trophies and T20 World Cup that they won in 2021.

Their team is not good in the T20I format but in ODI no one can beat them easily because their team can easily beat a team that wins all the matches of the World Cup in the final or Semi-Final. In 2023, as they beat India in the final, and they also beat the Pakistan team in 2021 World Cup in 2021 World Cup, when the Pakistan team won all matches and they beat them in the semi-final when the Pakistan team beat India, New Zealand and they won against India with 10 wickets and Pakistani bowlers stopped Indian batsmen to make more than runs than 151, but Australian stopped Pakistan team journey in semi-final.

Chairmen PCB Zaka Ashraf has resigned from his post, his tenure was about to end in first week of February. He reshaped the Pakistan cricket team after ODI world cup and that led to 3-0 defeat in Australia and 4-0 so far in NZ. New chairmen has not been appointed so far but most likely it will be Najam Sethi who will once again take the command. PCB these days is volatile like Bitcoin these days and due to that performance of team is drastically gone down.

op I can't agree with you on this. That's because if India gives the biggest amount to ICC. Even so, it is not neutral to take their side. The reason for this is that only because of India's boredom, the ICC is not remaining neutral, thereby spoiling the beauty of cricket. I think that if the ICC supports any particular country, if India gives a large amount to the ICC, but if the ICC supports India, then I think the beauty of cricket is destroyed. So the ICC must remain impartial at all times.

I agree here, now corruption is not issue in BCCI because of too much increased in revenue which are enough for them to do things as they want, and their stick policy is also helping them for staying at the top level but still now time for having changes in state level boards and stadiums because this can bring more revolutionary changes even this all is not possible in near future but if they are able to bring things under one constitute then surely we can bring more development in game and other things which will bring more hold in this all game and organization.

NDA is going to have more time in near future and if with this advantage they have positive and developing changes then we can end this political influence out of the management and things can go like role model of the Australia and USA which are holding enough things under their control just because of professionalism in their organizations.

It was Anurag Thakur who got kicked out due to the Lodha Committee but yeah Lodha Committee came into existence because of N Srinivasan's brigade, there were other reasons as well like State power play between all of the parties. Corruption at the top might not be an issue these days but these guys still didn't implement Lodha committee recommendations. Remember how Ganguly kept his chair (They made excuses like COVID)? 

True, everyone had a field day during the UPA tenure. NDA deserves the credit, for all its faults that's one area they somehow better than the previous gov. Having said that, itwould be naive if we think that they are dudh ke dhule huye. For me, ish hamam mein sab nange hai.

Here I am not agreed just because of having good contribution in revenue they deserve priority because spirit of the game is also needed as we have decision in ITF case they rejected Indian plea, and now they have to tour even I believe India will win comprehensively, but we need to play against each other which is best and positive thing and also need to stop propaganda machines as well which are creating useless tension here in this region but now Indian tennis having balls then surely they need to go ahead like they are doing in cricket but most chances they will not do because they have no luxury like ICC and FIFA is also working on this same way because there is also not problem like this but due to Indian influence and control ICC is under black mailing of BCCI which is surely against the rules of fair play and its just because Pakistan is going to have enough revenue through these tours in cricket.

Corruption was so prevalent earlier that the Supreme Court had to step in and kick out N Srinivasan as the BCCI president. Those who got to that post after him became a bit cautious. But many of the state boards are still refusing to become transparent and there is no audit or surveillance being conducted on them. BCCI revenues have gone up by almost 10x during the last 10 years or so, thanks to IPL media rights and increased allocation from the ICC. Given this, it is surprising that the level of corruption has gone down. Maybe this has something to do with NDA government taking over in 2014. During the 2004-14 UPA regime, corruption was at its peak.  

Since India contributes the most to the ICC's revenue, it is not unreasonable to give them priority. But if we are talking about whole cricket world then each team or country should be given importance. Be it India or Pakistan. By doing this, cricket will spread. Naturally, if any country cannot host international tournaments for a long time, then they cannot be expected to improve their cricket, rather their cricket will disappear with time. As of lately cricket is weak accept a few countries. Although ICC has added many countries to cricket but it has not increased the popularity of cricket and thus it is not possible.

In the political arena, he doesn't strike me as a bright one but I think in sports ministry he's okay-ish, most of the time he looks like a photo-op guy that's about it.

Corruption in BCCI at the top level is not a big issue anymore and we hardly hear anything nowadays but in State Boards, it's a different ball game and it has become such a well oiled machine that almost every party takes a cut.

LOL... I don't know much about Anurag Singh Thakur's family. And I guess hardly anyone outside Himachal has heard about him. I know that he is the son of an ex-chief minister, but mostly they stay out of media limelight. Even as the minister for Information and Broadcasting, I don't hear a lot about him in the media. And I am not sure whether he has any real power, because Jay Shah is the dominant force in BCCI as of now. So even of Anurag wants to do some corruption, it is highly unlikely that he has the freedom to do so.

To my knowledge Anurag also belongs to power hungry and corrupt family, it goes under the radar because he hails from Himachal.

Likes of Srinivasan-Pawar are worse breed and comparing with Shah's clan won't be right. Shah's family is Power-hungry for sure but it's true for every political family and tbh they earned it and they are not corrupt when compared to other political families.

Anurag and Jay are nepo kids, but at the same time I would prefer them over the Srinivasan-Pawar mafia any time of the day. Today's kids don't remember what happened during 2004-14 (when UPA was in power). The corrupt duo of Narayanaswami Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar took control of both the BCCI and the ICC and they destroyed all the progress that was achieved when Jagmohan Dalmiya was in power. The last thing I want is to have either of these two in power ever again. Rupa Gurunath is still the president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), but I don't have an issue if the rot is contained in TN.

Both Anurag Thakur and Jay Shah are a product of nepotism  but Mota Bhai's launda seems quite in administrative roles and not many people are aware of the fact that this mf got into an administrative job in his early 20s, mainly due to his daddy mota bhai so nepo kid does have a decade of experience under his belt and he's only 35.

Well, in the subcontinent you don't need this sort of qualifications, you are good to go if you are connected to ruling parties. One major difference is that in Indian state boards are largely independent and overall it's decentralized because different political parties hold stakes in each state board so need some sort of consensus or call it powerplay. It's more like you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours.  

Nah, PCB officials get sacked whenever a new gov comes into power. Rambo got a little bit breather though and it happened the first time.

The problem is Pakistan did try that. And it did not work. Pakistan actually fired the people who made that decision and appointed new people if I am not wrong. So I don't think it is going to be a wise idea. But it is also true that Pakistan have to do something. Otherwise, things are not going to improve for them at all. I guess they should try something because they are already losing everything. The fixture of a whole tournament cannot be changed just because one team does not want to play right?

Agreed. BCCI is not even bothered about anyone else (including the PCB). They just want to maximize their revenue as much as possible. And the guys in power, be it Jay Shah or Anurag Thakur have done a great job in this regard. If PCB focus more on the PSL and media rights, then they would be in a much better position. Instead they are spending all of their energy in trivial things. Kicking out all the politicians from the PCB and handing over responsibility to ex-players may do the trick in my opinion. BTW, what is the qualification of Zaka Ashraf? Has he ever represented the national team?

Have virtually no hope from the PCB, at the same i have full confidence that they will blow every good opportunity.

The thing is PCB is full of braindead individuals be it Rambo who was blabbing about "Blank check" or the new guy Zaka Ashraf who triggered a fair amount of people with the "Dushman Mulk" remark. FFS you are head of PCB, you can't be that unprofessional and play for the gallery when sitting at the top. In contrast look at BCCI, they might be corrupt af but they never say things like that or even react to these antics and give random interviews. They are all about business, that's it.

Last time they went through the legal route, rather than taking it up with the ICC privately. I guess this time they will be more intelligent. Anyway, PCB should not forget the fact that from next year onwards, their annual allocation from the ICC will increase from $16 million to $34.51 million. This huge boost is mostly due to the media rights sale for Indian region. IMO, the best possible option for PCB would be to follow a non-confrontational approach and get the best deal from the ICC. Zaka Ashraf needs to put some effort in this regard.

Maybe the time has come for PCB to play some daring card. India vs Pakistan fixture in the ICC tournament does generate revenue, not the highest rating if we go by recent WC numbers but it's enough.

PCB could threaten ICC to boycott these tailormade (Keyword) fixtures, not publicly because it'd be dumb and they have already done that countless times. Instead, they should go privately when everyone is at the high table conference and pitch it. This move requires backbone, some planning, and most importantly for once PCB officials must think about Pakistan cricket first and not look for a shortcut or personal gains.

I'm just going to be honest, ICC is literally a pussy. They have no backbone. Otherwise, they could have said that we do not care about India and we will go forward and make cricket popular in the whole world. But of course, they are not going to do that because India is generating around 90% of the revenue. India is also of course taking that chance beautifully. If it is already decided that Pakistan is going to host a tournament, I don't think there should be any discussion about it just because India is not willing to play in Pakistan. If this was any other team, that team would have ruled out. But of course, this is India we are talking about and they have great power over the ICC.

Regards

Duke