The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup and home series against England, but some former cricketers and analysts were unhappy with some of the selections.
Former fast bowler, Shoaib Akhtar, while commenting on the squad, said that the selection committee has failed to address the issue as the same middle-order has been picked despite poor performance in the Asia Cup.
The world’s fastest bowler said that he had suggested a million times before to open the innings with the left-handed Fakhar Zaman because he can make the most of the first six overs.
It is pertinent to mention here that the cricket board has included in-form Shan Masood in the squad for the home series against England and World Cup in Australia after his impressive performance in the recent past.
While criticizing Saqlain Mushtaq and the national team’s chief selector, Mohammad Wasim, for making poor decisions, Shoaib Akhtar stated that if the selector is average, then the decisions will be average as well.
Shoaib Akhtar further added that Saqlain has no idea of the shortest format of cricket and that selecting Iftikhar is like selecting Misbah-ul-Haq. “Now we have Rizwan and Iftikhar in the team. With this team, we might get knocked out in the first round itself,” he concluded.
Theek keh raha hei. Is misbah so powerful even after getting chucked that his 2 gifts khushdil and iftikhar r still with us? Or is this babars doing? Finally shan comes back but at the expense of fakhar who has been unsettled by making him 1 down. But nobody can touch the dynamic duo who have completely let us down in the middle order. They cost us the world cup asia cup and will now cost us the next world cup as well. Wake up rameez and exercise your authority…now. it took 2 yrs of disappointment to chuck hassan from the t20 squad but not b4 he too cost us big. Now m wasim who is an average bowler is included and becUse of his supposed batting which will only be needed in matches where middle order fails we will sacrifice either naseem haris rauf or nawaz why? We should be trying to get dahani into the first team rather than compromise one of our prime wicket taking options.
My team
Babar rh bat
Fakhar rh bat
Shan lh bat ra fast medium ball
Rizwan rh bat keeping
Shadab rh bat ra leg spin
Malik rh bat right arm offie
Nawaz lh bat left arm spin
Shaheen lh bat left arm fast
Nasim ra fast
Haris rauf ra fast
Dahani ra fast
12. M wasim rh bat ra fast medium
13 hasnain ra fast
14 sohaib maqsood rh bat
15 imran qadir ra spin
Travelling reserves
1 haris wk
2. Kamran gulam rh bat
3. M amir ra fast
Poor team
He’s absolutely right