The reign and tenure of Ramiz raja as the Pakistan cricket board chairman was one full of absurd lies, towering hypocrisy and mind blowing ironies
which in the end damaged the global reputation of Pakistan as a whole
just a few years back who was just another cricketer turned youtuber
among the first in the soon to join laundry list of people including Shoaib Akhtar, Kamran akhmal, Salman butt & Inzamam ul haq
but he had spend the last year picking a fight with PCB
From PCB is destroying Babar Azam’s potential to even Afghanistan can defeat Pakistan now
He kept of making controversies and lighting fires till finally he said
That he had talked to Imran khan about this
And soon rumors started that PM Imran khan was unhappy with his then appointment Ehsan Mani
Which soon came true
As Ehsan Mani refused to let Ramiz raja be the vice chairman and resigned from the post
Ramiz raja – now the chairman
So while the whole cricketing world had agreed
Being a good cricketer had nothing to do with being a good manager
& In his very first press conference picked a fight with a journalist saying – I am not gone listen to any criticism here
This attitude of the king…
Would become his trademark feature throughout his tenure
From unilaterally changing the T20 world cup squad
Causing coach Misbah and Waqar Younis to resign
& telling the captain to
Focus on cricket rather than which players will be picked or not.
And when questioned about this
King’s response -
I told him that
if you don't have 400 autograph hunters outside the academy then the whole objective to play cricket has failed.
And this need from fame was plain to see for the next few months especially when England and new Zealand cancelled their tour
Responding with
in the World Cup now where we had one team in our target —now add two more teams
we will avenge that in the ground.
India stole Pakistan strategies to become strong
And then setting the target on BCCI
He soon launched his austerity measures while himself spending 6 lakhs per month
Don’t use AC
Turn of the lights
Drink less tea,
To save money
Finally saying
PCB can collapse
if Indian government wants
& trying to encourage his team he said - I have been promised a blank cheque by an investor if India defeats Pakistan
And so developed a pattern that can
See if you can see a pattern here
Sourav Ganguly extends IPL final invitation to Ramiz Raja , Raja refuses
Ramiz Raja won’t charge single penny from PCB as chairman
Ramiz Raja empowered Babar and instilled fearless cricket
“I plotted Rohit Sharma’s dismissal with Babar Azam
Even participating in a reality program…
Where he would judge commentators for PSL
This was to the point that
Wasim Akram had to say
Ramiz raja is PCB
But soon trouble would come knocking starting from buying drop pitches worth 37 crores for no reason whatsoever
And when you once again blame your top management for taking too large a salary
The national assembly decided to investigate them leading to their salaries being disclosed publicly indirectly causing Saqlain Mustaq to refuse from continuing as the coach
And in middle of thousand such fires
Australia grace the land of Pakistan
The series was being marketed as the introduction of Pakistan to the world
With the whole world eyes on them
Pakistan did the unthinkable
Created a completely flat pitch
Where nobody had any chance of actually bringing results
Where he practically went and said
Yeah we did it intentionally
Even justifying his decision of doing so
Camouflaging it as a tactical decision and using it to make even the second pitch completely barren
And banning the commentary panel from mentioning the pitch
Trying to prevent the backlash that his country was receiving
Including Australian captain pat Cummins publicly condemning the pitch
But this defensive mindset would come back to bite them soon
This is the exciting and disheartening journey of the first half of Ramiz rajas tenure
A complete timeline of the debacle that was the year that brought Pakistan to its knees
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