Babar Azam set down situations to PCB for accepting captainship in white ball codecs together with having a say in appointment of coaches.
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PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has supplied Babar Azam captaincy within the white ball codecs however the star participant has not but made his resolution, sources have claimed.
It has been learnt that Babar has set down situations for accepting the captaincy, together with having a say in appointment of coaches. Babar has conveyed that he ought to given the reins of the facet in all three codecs.
The nationwide choice committee, although is split on the difficulty. A former Punjab caretaker minister, who apparently has no cricket background, just isn’t in favour giving back absolute energy to Babar.
“Some members of the selection committee now feel the best thing is to let Shaheen Shah Afridi continue as captain for the home T20 series against New Zealand in April and give him a chance to prove his credentials,” one well-informed supply stated.
He stated there was a sense amongst some selectors it could be finest to watch for a sequence or two earlier than taking a ultimate resolution to bring back Babar as captain.
The fascinating half is that the selectors together with Muhammad Yousuf, Asad Shafiq, Abdul Razzaq, Wahab Riaz and the previous minister, Bilal Afzal after assembly with Mohsin Naqvi requested him to make the ultimate name.
“They made their opinions clear to the PCB chief and have now asked him to make a final call and Naqvi has told them to convince Babar to accept the white ball captaincy for now and the Board will take a call on the red ball captaincy after the T20 World Cup,” the supply added.
This even if the PCB chief gave clear mandate to the selectors whereas appointing them to choose the captain.
The Test captaincy is with Shan Masood.
Similarly there may be additionally no readability on what the PCB is doing concerning the appointment of overseas coaches with the nationwide staff.
“As of now the PCB has met with refusals from several foreigners including Adam Voges, Luke Ronchi, Shane Watson and Mike Hesson,” the supply stated.
He stated presently the PCB is hoping that their negotiations with Gary Kirsten and Jason Gillispie are profitable as they need them to take over as white ball and pink ball coaches.
“The solely catch is that each Kirsten and Gilliepie are adamant they may bring their very own help workers whereas the PCB wants to make the opposite appointments as it wants a few of its native gamers on the help workers as assistant specialist coaches,” he stated.
