Delhi: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials are busy considering the future strategy after the shameful performance of the Pakistani team in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Pakistani media has claimed that the future of senior players playing on the basis of old records seems to be in danger. It is becoming difficult for big players like Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Nasim Shah and Haris Rauf to keep a place in the team.
Experts are raising questions that in the last three years, 4 chairman, 8 coaches and 26 selectors have changed, so why are senior cricketers part of the team despite their failures?
The biggest challenge for board officials and chairman Mohsin Naqvi is to eliminate a particular group within the team. A group of seven-eight boys is allegedly trying to get the board done by blackmailing and due to this problems are arising for the board.
According to sources, after the announcement of Pakistan’s 15 -member team for the Champions Trophy, the PCB suggested the selection committee to review the team at least twice, but the selectors and captain Mohammad Rizwan did not listen to them.
Pakistani media says that on the request of Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, the selectors held the first one and a half hour meeting in the boardroom of the National Academy, but no progress was made. He was advised to change two-three players and add an additional spinner.
Mohammad Rizwan and the selectors did not change their opinion by taking a tough stance. Before the match against India, PCB officials told the selectors and captain to replace Usman Khan as a opener in place of Imam ul Haq, as Usman has played most of his cricket in the Emirates. This time too, Rizwan and the selectors did not change their opinion by taking a tough stand.
Neighboring country media says that the chairman encouraged the team in the chartered flight from Karachi to Dubai, but there was silence in the aircraft in return. After the Champions Trophy, the Pakistani team has to go to New Zealand for a white ball series. The first T20 match will be played on 16 March in Christchurch. The change in the selection committee and other important posts will be decided after the tour of New Zealand.
Head coach Aqib Javed is interested in the post of director at the National Academy. The current Academy Director Nadeem Khan will join the PSL franchise next month.
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