Pakistan cricket is at a crossroads. Malik Arshed Gilani in the Pakistan daily Dawn says the PCB's approach, witnessed by its many statements, as one of the main partners in the next World Cup truly reflects the overall competence it has in the management of its affairs.

We have in with our normal brilliance turned this into a legal matter. Let us examine our actions from the beginning; we arrive at a meeting of the ICC totally unprepared to tackle a subject that should have been topmost in our minds.

How weak is the excuse that the topic was not on the agenda. The event is just two years away, the world is talking about the security in Pakistan after the Lahore attack but we, the PCB, have not thought this through and then hide behind the excuse that they are unprepared.