Ever since Ijaz Butt got appointed as Pakistan cricket board's (PCB) chairman, Pakistan cricket team selection is now based on politics rather than the performance of the players. It has become a game of bribery. Rather than looking at how players are doing in the domestic circuit and using that to determine which players to pick for what format, the squad gets picked way before that domestic season even starts.
Recently Pakistan cricket team's squad for was picked for their upcoming series against South Africa in Dubai and I looked at squad and i was like "what the hell is this?". 1st of all the squad with was picked without consulting that team captain, Shahid Afridi or the coach Waqar Younis, like What's up with that?
Moreover, they chose the wrong players for the different formats e.g Fawad Alam got picked in the T20 squad but was ignored for the test squad, there's no logic in this. Sohail Tanvir who has represented Pakistan in quite a few ODIs and has actually produced some very good performances got completely ignored??? Younis Khan, God knows what the PCB chairman has against him. He has been completely ignored consistently, that's ridiculous considering that fact that he is the former captain, one of the senior players with plenty of experience.
However that's not it, the worst part was the return of Mishab-ul-Haq as a captain of the test squad, yep that's right. Only in a country like Pakistan would a player struggling with his form (batting in his case) and has been out of the team for a long time return as a captain. I mean that's ridiculous this guy was almost announcing his retirement a couple of months ago and you are going to bring him back not just as a player but as a captain??? Where is the logic in that?
Surely we can see the flaws in the selection of Pakistan cricket, this needs to be sorted out quickly. We need to remove Ijaz Butt as the chairman of PCB because this is not a leader and if he stays he will finish Pakistan cricket.
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