Facetiousness aside - the point remains that he may well have been invited for a chat with the panel if he had been handy, but given that he not only had he not officially commenced, but that he was in another country, engaged with another activity, and they were presumably keen to make their announcement, I can understand why they didn't go to the effort of having a conversation with him. And to be fair, I don't really see why his input would have been necessary, and reason why it would be undesirable. With team boards making decisions on discipline, I feel they should do so without considering the short-term effect on performance - otherwise the whole thing becomes a joke. Waqar wasn't the coach at the time these issues were going on, so had nothing to add as a witness, and surely its ultimately up to the board, not the coach to decide what is and isn't acceptable.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly no apologist for how the PCB has behaved through this whole saga, but I think this is one specific issue where they've done little wrong.
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