Absurdity in the ICC.

2020 is now of the past, however, as December recently wrapped up, the ICC made it worse by demonstrating an overt bias against the Pakistan cricket team, specifically. Even a neutral observer of the game would be baffled in the context of the ICC Awards of the Decade. Not a single member of the Pakistan cricket team was awarded a sole major award. What made it worse was that no Pakistani player was made to be a part of any roster that comprised an ICC Team of the Decade across the formats of tests, one-day internationals and Twenty20 internationals, respectively.

All of the developments mentioned above are astonishing in the context of Pakistan's performances in the previous decade which featured an acquisition of the top-ranking status in the world for test cricket in 2016, winning the ODI formatted Champions Trophy in 2017, and holding the highest rank in Twenty20 internationals for the longest duration of 824 days while bolstering the highest rating of 286. Clearly, either the ICC ranking has no meritocracy or the ICC awards have an unchecked bias, therefore, all I see is an absurdity in the ICC.

With regards to even nominations of the sole awards, only Yasir Shah and Misbah Ul-Haq were considered for the trophies that pertained to test cricket and the spirit of cricket. That is a mere two Pakistani players in consideration of a total of sixty-seven candidates for attaining, the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for the ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Women's Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade, ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade and the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade. If one is to look beyond the associate awards then it is only two Pakistani nominations out of fifty-five. It is quite evident and obvious...