HomeAustralia Injustice in selection of players byMurtaza Moiz -June 24, 2010 2 Ignoring a player like Younus for a difficult England tour, on what grounds? I don't know is there any example similar to Pakistan Cricket Board in the world to follow, but apart from raising fingers on the credibility of this cricket board, everyone knows about English conditions, where it seems alot although not as much as it were during 70s 80s but still worthy when it comes to players particularly from South Asia.And in this scenario, ignoring the experience just for the personalized reason and later justifying by pointing fingers on his form and disciplinary grounds is totally rubbish! Even if they had to select players other than Younus or Faisal, Asim Kamal was a good choice, as in English conditions we need players who know how to prolong their stay on the wicket, if you stay on the wicket, you'll be able to score else fell miserably, and this is what I am seeing as the Aussies would eye Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi, as they're only the renowned names in current Pakistani middle order, and can include Kamran Akmal aswell, so as a sequel to my previous blogs, I am not very optimistic with the current Pakistani team doing well, as the team has not been selected on merits and like I was listening to some voices from common people on a Pakistani sports channel, I do agree with them that after conclusion of a 4 month long tour of England, Pakistan will end up finishing on 9 and so on rank from current 7 position in both One Day International and International Test Rankings, just because lack of experience in the team and plus playing with the future of Pakistani youngsters by demoralizing them if they do not perform, loosing the grip on the match clearly shows there's lack of experience in the team which is costing them the match.As far as they wobble Pakistan have a great middle order batsman in Shoaib Malik, he didn't played in the team when Inzi was skipping the test side against England in their last tour to England, so how can you say he's able to take the pressure and burden onto his shoulder? Whatever knowledge of cricket I've, I think experience in any arena of cricket whether ODI, test or T20, you must particularly rely on the experience candidates who're specialist in their field, prior to Malik's short spell of captaincy, his place in the team wasn't confirmed during those days, and what major performance did he contributed in test in recent times? Questions to be answered.Even there were news that Selection Committee was not happy with this team, means team was approved by someone else and not the selection committee panel, so what is the credibility of this panel when they can't decide and make a team on their behalf? Tags Australia Pakistan Pakistan Offshore home series in England 2010 Younis Khan Facebook Twitter
Well Murtaza, I support your views. You know, Pakistan Cricket Board is the most dangerous problem Pakistan Cricket is facing right now.
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