ISLAMABAD: The national Twenty-20 Championship Organising committee head Wazir Ali Khoja said on Tuesday that he didn't expected Javed Miandad to make an issue of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) just sending him a single invitation for the event.
Miandad had earlier complained that the board had sent him just a single invitation for the national T20 championship that began on Sunday at Karachi and have also not kept him in the organising committee.
"I don't think this is such a big issue it is unfortunate that a person of Miandad's caliber is making an issue of this," Khoja said.
There is no issue with the cards how many does he want I will deliver them personally myself to him at his home," Khoja said.
Khoja further said that Miandad doesn't need an invitation to come to the stadium.
"He is the Director-General in the board and he can come anytime. No one needs to invite him. He can come and play his role in the organization. The invitation card is sent as a routine practice to all former players," Khoja was quoted by a website as saying.
He said that it was unfortunate that Miandad was making an issue of nothing and said that the former captain should be assisting the board in making the tournament a success.
Khoja also dismissed complaints by the advisor on sports to the Sindh chief minister Haleem Adil Sheikh that the board was mistreating former players and also snubbing him.
"Haleem Adil Sheikh wanted to organise a gala concern during the tournament to raise funds for the flood victims we felt given the situation in the province it would not be appropriate to hold a concert."
"Instead we suggested he organize a exhibition match between the Miandad eleven and Shahid Afridi eleven after the tournament but he got upset and angry with us," Khoja concluded.
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