The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced that Sarfaraz Ahmed has been removed as Pakistan cricket team’s captain from all three formats.
Soon after the announcement, the PCB social media account shared a video that showed the players dancing and pushing Sarfaraz Ahmed.
The ESPNcricinfo’s Osman Samiuddin pointed out the tweet shared by PCB on a post by T20 World Cup. The footage was later deleted.
Here is @TheRealPCB tweet moments after Sarfaraz was sacked. Classy. (Background score courtesy my one-year old) pic.twitter.com/QuCqxQTDXJ
— Osman Samiuddin (@OsmanSamiuddin) October 18, 2019
After the social media started reacting, the PCB apologized and claimed that the video had nothing to do with the Sarfaraz sacking.
The PCB apologies for this post and accepts the timing of it was wrong. This was a pre-planned post as part of the one-year to go #T20WorldCup promotional campaign. The timing of this post clashed with the captaincy announcement for which the PCB offers its regrets.
The PCB apologies for this post and accepts the timing of it was wrong. This was a pre-planned post as part of the one-year to go #T20WorldCup promotional campaign. The timing of this post clashed with the captaincy announcement for which the PCB offers its regrets.
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) October 18, 2019
Despite the justification, many people claimed that it was an intentional tweet and lashed out against PCB.
— Hugo Stiglitz (@danialali18_) October 18, 2019
Are the pcb's media mad??…..ye kisi ko bhi respecct nh dyty
— Asadullah (@Asadullah_141) October 18, 2019
It actually showed the real situation of how lobby in pcb deals with players from Karachi
— Usman (@khan_usman) October 18, 2019
all officials of the pcb should also get sacked for not being professional and not doing their work right. pcb should sack 2 khalifas waqar & misbah who will ruin the team again as they did before. pcb should give some damn respect to their captains.
— DKY (@danialovic) October 18, 2019
#PCB social media campaigns 🤦🏽♂️
— shujat ali (@shujatali) October 18, 2019
Shame shame shame @TheRealPCBMedia @TheRealPCB @captainmisbahpk #EhsanMani #wasimkhan
— Sualeha Khan (@sposmj) October 18, 2019
