Jarrod Kimber Calls Out Pakistan Cricket Board

The 2026 ICC T20 Cricket men’s World Cup did not go as Pakistan or the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) expected.

The Toronto Blue Jays failed to win the MLB World Series. Additionally, the Edmonton Oilers failed to defeat the Florida Panthers to win the NHL’s highest award, the Stanley Cup.

Just like those teams failed to bring home the biggest prize, Pakistan failed to bring home the World Cup.

They ended with a victory against Sri Lanka in their last Super 8 match. Sadly, the damage was already done, and Pakistan failed to advance to the semi-final matches.

Following their Super 8 exit, every Pakistan player was fined by the PCB. There are many with their own perspective on the situation. However, a long-time cricket journalist calls them out on their confusing decision.

Jarrod Kimber Calls Out the Pakistan Cricket Board

Jarrod Kimber recently shared a video discussing PCB’s decision to fine every T20 cricket player who was a member of Pakistan’s team.

“The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to fine the Pakistan players for an underwhelming World Cup,” Kimber said to start the clip. “What an extraordinary way to tell us that they know absolutely nothing about professional sport.”

Following that, Kimber calls them out, saying that they should have nothing to do with sports, let alone cricket.

“The way that they run their cricket culture is so amateur and so stupid; they don’t understand what they are doing,” Kimber said. “What the Pakistan Cricket Board have essentially done is just shown, again, that they know nothing about sports and should not be involved in running sports in any way, shape, or form.”

In the same video, Kimber explains that poor performance at a big event naturally affects players’ earning ability afterward. That makes fines for poor performances a redundant measure.

“If you’re a Pakistani player and you’re thought to be in the best 15 in a World Cup and you have a terrible World Cup, and you don’t make the following World Cup, you don’t get paid as much,” he said. “That’s how it works.”

However, Kimber points out that the PCB has opened up a can of worms that they may regret.

“What they’ve really done is opened up for us to have a look at it and go, ‘wait a minute,” Kimber said. “Maybe everyone on the Pakistan Board should be fined every time they are underwhelming.”

PCB’s Surprising & Confusing Fines

Osman Samiuddin of ESPNcric shared similar thoughts about how perplexing a decision to fine players for losing really is.

“It’s difficult to recall another occasion – certainly in the modern era – when the players were fined simply and straightforwardly for losing games of cricket,” Samiuddin wrote on March 3rd, 2026. “Fined for the indiscipline and factionalism, or corruption, that contributed to the losing, yes; but fined outright for losing? It’s literally one of two results that can happen in the white-ball formats.”

It’s certainly confusing to fine every player for just missing out on the semi-finals. The Pakistan squad made it to the Super 8s, something Australia failed to do this year.

Perhaps, all of these outspoken pundits and fans will make the PCB change its mind.

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