Zaka Ashraf-led Pakistan Cricket Board sacks entire selection committee following World Cup debacle | REPORTS

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Zaka Ashraf-led Pakistan Cricket Board sacks entire selection committee following World Cup debacle | REPORTS


Image Source : PTI PCB chair Zaka Ashraf.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) reportedly dissolved its entire selection committee on Tuesday (November 14) following an underwhelming efficiency by the senior males’s cricket group on the World Cup 2023 that noticed the 1992 World Cup winners fail to qualify for the semifinals.

As per a number of Pakistan media organisations like Samaa TV, Geo Super amongst others, the PCB has sacked its selection committee and a choice on the way forward for the incumbent skipper of the Pakistan males’s cricket group Babar Azam can even be taken within the days to return.

For the unversed, Morne Morkel who was serving as Pakistan bowling coach, resigned from his publish on Monday (November 13) amid a state of chaos in Pakistan cricket circles in the intervening time. The chair of PCB Zaka Ashraf met a couple of famend cricketers, together with Younis Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Hafeez on Tuesday on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore in a high-profile assembly to debate the way forward for cricket within the nation.

Many former Pakistan cricketers have additionally raised questions over the PCB’s liking of overseas coaches and reviews recommend {that a} main overhaul is on the playing cards which could result in the ouster of a few of these coaches who’re part of the set-up proper now. The group is at present functioning underneath the steerage of head coach Grant Bradburn, group director Mickey Arthur, and batting coach Andrew Puttick. 

Pakistan’s subsequent project is a troublesome one as they’re to tour Australia for a three-match Test collection (a part of the continuing ICC World Test Championship cycle 2023-25 cycle). The tour will witness Pakistan play a four-day warm-up recreation in opposition to the Prime Minister’s XI on the Manuka Oval beginning December 6. It will formally get underway with the primary Test match, slated to be performed in Perth beginning December 14.

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