KARACHI - Karachi City Cricket Association has decided to consult those whom it had discarded in the past for help to improve the fast falling cricketing standards in the city which was once known as nursery of cricket in Pakistan .
When Karachi was awash with talented cricketers the officials of the KCCA always boasted that Karachi was nursery of cricket but due to its own negligence and mismanagement during the past many years the city has failed to produce a player of high calibre.
In order to arrest the downward slide in the standards the KCCA has decided to invite some of the past cricketers for a get together at its office located under the National stadium stand on October 25 . The invitees would be advised to give their views on improving standard of cricket in Karachi.
Among those invited are Rashid Latif, Jalaluddin and Moin Khan who runs cricket academies in the city for the talented youngsters and are already involved in training young cricketers.
Though the KCCA is the biggest cricket association in the country and has its own ground in North Nazimabad but it has never ever planned to set up a permanent academy. From time to time it has conducted brief camps for the selected teams.
Those invited to the get together are: Iqbal Qasim, Salim Jaffer, Rashid Latif, Moin Khan, Basit Ali, Tausif Ahmed, Jalaluddin, Mansoor Akhtar, Azam Khan, Atiqur Rehman, Ilyas Khan, Amin Lakhani, Shaukat Mirza, Akbar Alam, Zafar Ahmed, Mohinder Kumar, Bharat Kumar, M. Masroor, Asim Rizvi, Tahir Mahmood, Iqbal Imam, Amir Iqbal, Shakil Sajjad, Sajid Ali and Zafar Ch.