PCB to stop giving incentives to teams touring Pakistan, says Ehsan Mani
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani has announced that the board won't be awarding incentives to teams and players who tour Pakistan from here on. Since 2015, PCB has spending millions of extra bucks on players to encourage them to travel to Pakistan for leagues and international fixtures.
For the Pakistan Super League to become such a success, since 2015 when the PSL started, the PCB has spent millions of dollars to try and encourage the visiting teams and players to their country. Ever since the Lahore militants attack in 2009, there was no major international cricket in Pakistan for six years and the PCB were forced to play their home games at neutral venues - mostly in the UAE - that has already had a lot of extra expense associated with it.
Moreover, the board didn't stop trying to convince teams to tour Pakistan, and financial incentives played a key part in it. According ESPNCricinfo, millions of dollars were spent on cricketers even beyond the PSL, including every member of the Zimbabwe team in 2015, followed by the ICC World XI that toured Lahore in 2017 and last year when members of a second-string West Indies side visited Karachi for a three-match T20I series.
And now the PCB chairman Ehsan Mani feels that this sort of expenditure can only be to achieve "short-term goals", and the objective should be to build a firmer foundation of trust and commitment for longer-term benefits. In fact, the Sri Lanka players who are in Pakistan right now have not been offered extra financial incentives by the PCB.
"Transparency and merit are very important aspects for me," Mani said in Lahore during the launch of the logo for the upcoming Pakistan-Sri Lanka series. "Whoever wants to come to Pakistan, we will welcome them wholeheartedly. But whoever is coming for money, his commitment isn't for Pakistan.
"So what is more important for us is to mollify everyone [and tell them] that Pakistan is a safe country. With money, we can attain short-term goals, but we want to build a solid foundation to make a longer-term impact for the sake of the betterment of Pakistan cricket," he said.
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