Pakistan Cricket Board Restricted Bidders for DRS to get BroadCasting rights

 Pakistan Crciket borad who will complete the bid process today for the umcpming series against South Africa and Sri Lanka in UAE, is very much concerned for DRS.
Both the cricketing nations are very much concerned about DRS and need to use during T20, ODI and Test series who will host by UAE in third and fourth quarter of the year 2013 source close to PCB BID Committee said.  

"The PCB wants to have DRS in the Test and One-day series against South Africa and Sri Lanka as both countries are keen on this technology," a source close to a broadcaster also confirmed.

" Use of DRS will costs around USD 300,000 extra to the broadcasters for both series besides while the production costs of around two million dollars," Broad caster concerned.

The Indian News maker group NDTV sports reveled story about bidding process as under in which means the process is not upto the mark as per their talk with the source of broadcaster want to buy the broadcast rights.

He added the PCB had not made it clear as yet whether the broadcaster would have to provide facilities for just the snickometre and hawkeye in the DRS or they would also have the controversial hotspot technology, which will increase the costs of broadcasters further.

The PCB has decided to sell broadcasting rights of the two series as a separate venture instead of entering into a long-term four or five-year deal with a broadcaster for Pakistan cricket rights.

"The long-term deal will be done later because of shortage of time and for now we are selling rights of just these two series as our long-standing contract with Ten Sports expired in June," the source said.

Another source in the board told PTI that the bid committee, which is overseeing the whole process under the supervision of former ICC Chairman, Ehsan Mani, and also includes a Supreme Court retired judge, will open technical bids of interested broadcasters in Lahore today.

"Later in the evening the financial bids will also be opened and the highest bidder which is over or meets the reserve price set by the committee will get the rights," he said.

The PCB is looking to earn around USD 10 to 15 million dollars from the rights of the two series which include a total of six tests, ten one-day internationals and four T20 matches and a one-off game against Afghanistan.

Imran Farhat refuse Zimbabwe tour due to Domestic affairs, Uncapped Shan Masood will replace

   

Pakistani opener imran farhat was a part of the tour Zimbabwe team, but he refuse to attend tour Zimbabwe because of Domestic affairs. PCB confirmed that imran informed chairman selection committee and PCB as well about his problem that's why selection committee replaced him with young shan masood as part of test team against Zimbabwe.

Pakistan cricket team will start his tour to Zimbabwe on 19th of current month where both the teams will play two T20, three ODI's and two Test matches. Imran farhat who is the son in law of ex chairman selection committee and present member of PCB Ilyas Ahmad, his wife is expecting baby in coming days therefore he refuse Zimbabwe tour.

PCB grant four lac rupees to Skipper Misbah, Hafeez, Afridi and Zulifqar babar on their performance in W.I as reward

Accroding to PCB press relaese 

 The caretaker Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board, Mr Najam Sethi has approved cash awards to the Pakistan men’s and women’s teams that have recently won laurels in the West Indies and England respectively.

“The performances of both our men’s and women’s teams merited a reward. The tenacity shown by the boys under Misah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez in the West Indies was quite remarkable. The women’s team too has maintained an upwardly mobile trajectory and their achievement of finishing the ICC Qualifiers for the World T20 championship on top of the event is indeed commendable.

“The PCB management is positive that the cash rewards and recognition shall inspire both teams to keep it up and notch greater accomplishments”, said Mr Najam Sethi.

The Pakistan squad under Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez had given an impressive performance against the West Indies, winning the ODI rubber 3-1 before blanking the hosts in two Twenty20 Internationals. Of the seven matches across the two formats, Pakistan lost just one, winning five besides one ODI ending in a tie.

The entire Pakistan ODI and T20 squad was awarded Rs200,000/- apiece while the support staff each got Rs100,000/-. The four stand-out performers, two each from the ODIs and T20 Internationals, were given additional rewards of Rs400,000/- apiece. These were: Misbah ul Haq (ODI Man of the Series); Shahid Khan Afridi (Best bowling figures in ODI series); Zulfiqar Babar (T20 Man of the Series); Umar Akmal (Best Overall performance with the bat and behind the stumps).

The Pakistan women’s squad was awarded Rs100,000/- apiece while the team officials were given Rs50,000/- each.

The Pakistan women’s team had an exceptionally successful tour of England, where they defeated England Academy, followed by a series victory against Ireland and a drawn rubber against England. Subsequently it emerged on the top in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifiers, sharing the title with Sri Lanka in a rain-affected final. This command performance earned them qualification for the Women World T20 tournament to be held next year in Bangladesh.