The poor affected people desperately need material help to end their miseries, rehabilitation and restoration of the basic needs like shelter, supply of food, water, medical aid to heal the wounded and fractured people, blankets, tents, warm clothes that could keep them from the chilling winds and snow that are still in store for them.
They want sanitation, education, burial of their dead, law and order to reign to save them from marauding bands so that they could pass their nights and days in peace.
Naturally, any fun-giving activity or the cricket addiction of the nation may not be able to bring the ripples of laughter they have lost. They are crest-fallen and are most desperate to be united with the dear ones that are still surviving but are distanced from them.
The cricket matches can only be a redeeming feature or a silver-lining in their dark clouds if the entire proceeds of the matches played or 50% of it is diverted to the President's Earthquake Relief Fund for the homeless, heartless creatures and the thousands of children, who are orphaned, badly maimed or crippled and amputated for their life and have no one left in this wide world to tarn to hug them and console on the happy occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
No wonder, if the Pakistan Cricket Board is already having such a noble gesture in its mind. If they have, it should be announced so that the cricket matches are not further criticised.
This will also be a memorable contribution of the PCB and the visiting team in the history of cricket.