Pakistan Federation Looks to Curb Reported Rash of Player Withdrawals by Waqar Hamza January 23, 2019
- The organizers of international squash events have been found taking
strong measures against Pakistani players and some of them even imposed
penalties on players and Pakistan Squash Federation for withdrawing
from their events.
This was learnt through the minutes of the last Executive Committee
Meeting of PSF held last year. The meeting was told that international
organizers had started raising strong reservations/objections against
Pakistan and have also started imposing fines/penalties, thus creating
embarrassments for PSF.
PSF enters the names of players in international events after receiving
them from their affiliated associations but the associations withdraw
their names (most probably on sponsorship issues) which in turn creates
lots of problems for the organizers.
PSF has now directed its affiliated associations/departments that they
must generate funds to sponsor their players, coaches and officials for
international events.
PSF also ordered the associations/departments that they must ensure
that some surety bond must be obtained from players interested in
participating in international events so that they don’t withdraw their
names to save the country from embarrassment.
Moreover, to stop this trend of entering names in international events
without genuine intention of participation the associations/departments
were asked to devise some kind of mechanism like obtaining surety bonds
from players.
It is worth adding here that total 19 events were allotted to Pakistan
by Professional Squash Association (PSA) in 2018 and 6 of them (for men
and women) were meant for Pakistani nationals only. And 13 events (7
for men and 6 for women) were allotted with foreign players’
participation.
