Thank you Cricket Pakistan

Hum aah bhi kartey hain tou ho jaatey hain badnaam
Woh qatal bhi kartey hain tou charcha nahi hota

Such is the case with Cricket Pakistan. When few Pakistani cricketers are found guilty for spot fixing, when few Pakistani cricketers are found guilty for doping, when few Pakistani cricketers are allegated for tampering with the ball; the world media talks about it and we are stereotyped.

But my question is that, are Pakistanis the only one who are involved in the above mentioned ill activities? What about Hansie Cronje, Mohammad Azharuddin and Mark Waugh's match fixing scandals? What about Shane Warne and Upar Tharanga's doping scandals? What about Sachin Tendulkar and Mike Atherton's bowl tampering scandals?

Kuch sheher de log v zaalim san

Kuch sanu maran da shauk v si

By no means I am defending those bunch of Pakistani players who dis-reputed my country's name. I know there are players who have set wrong examples and put self interest before country's but these few selfish players exist everywhere in the world and criticizing Pakistan is not at all reasonable.

However, the reason why I call it unreasonable is not because such characters exist everywhere but because Pakistan has given a lot to cricket and I believe its about time that world cricket stop criticizing and thank Cricket Pakistan for its sincere (never-ending) services.

Pakistan has made cricket more colorful. Not only produced some finest talent over the years but also introduced several new methods and style in the game which is widely adopted by all the top test playing nations.

Minus Pakistan's contribution there would be:

• No Neutral Umpires

Even though he has hundreds of achievements and reasons to be called as the greatest skipper of all time; his stance on neutral umpires set Imran Khan apart from all the other greats of the game. Imran for the first time introduced two Indian umpires in the home series against West Indies in 1986. Khan Sahab continued his examplary approach 3 years later in a home series against India by inviting two Englishmen to umpire the series.

It took a couple of years for ICC and rest of the nations to adopt it; however, now it has become mandatory in test cricket to have neutral umpires.

• No Reverse Swing

Reverse Swing has been used as a lethal weapon by Pakistani pacers over 3 decades now; it was Sarfaraz Nawaz who invented alongside Sikander Bakht and Imran Khan. Few years later the two Ws became famous for mastering the art of reverse swing; Since then Aaquib Javaid, Shoaib Akhter, Wahab Riaz, Umar Gul, Junaid Khan and almost every new comer fast bowler in the side is enriched with this art.

• Reverse Sweep

Even though we are not very much famous for our batting; yet there is one of the most commonly used unorthodox cricketing shot we call "Reverse Sweep" was invented by the great little master Hanif Mohammad and brother Mushtaq Mohammad. Javed Miandad is also famous for his reverse sweep.

• Pakistan versus Afghanistan - Taking Cricket to Another Level

Who would have agreed to play an international ODI against Afghanistan? It is very much clear that BCCI doesn't give due respect to lowly-ranked cricket boards; their reluctance to play against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh proves it.

Such good gesture by Cricket Pakistan and its impact on the entire nation (Afghanistan) was simply great. For the first time Afghani govt. and Taliban were on agreement; the people of Afghanistan never felt more united.

I know its difficult for people to swallow but the fact is that Pakistan has been great ambassadors of the game. Yes, few selfish players has been involved in ill-activities but I don't think there is any country in the world where such characters do not exist.

There is a lot more contribution to cricket by Pakistanis then what I have mentioned above; another noteworthy input is introducing spinners in the ODIs. Its high time that cricket should resume in our country and world media stop hating us for what we are. Believe it or not Pakistan's contribution is far more to what others have put in.