LAHORE: Pakistan’s successive defeats against New Zealand and England
in the T20 contests have set the alarm bells ringing in the cricketing
quarters here with the all-important World T20 now just weeks away.
However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is reluctant in taking any
drastic steps at this juncture.
PCB chairman Shaharyar M Khan, talking to media after inaugurating the Benazir Bhutto Women Cricket Tournament at the Bagh-i-Jinnah ground here on Monday, said: “I have no serious concerns over the team’s performance against New Zealand but some little changes may be made. In fact, we want to encourage our team instead of bringing them down.
“Whenever we play outside the country it is a difficult proposition for us. In England and New Zealand we face a lot of problems due to the seaming conditions,” Shaharyar said. “India, too, have lost matches to Australia in Australia.
“Wins and losses are part of the game. In today’s ODI against New Zealand, we got their six wickets for just 99 but their lower order batsmen did a very good job, so it is all part of the game,” the chairman said.
He also defended T20 captain Shahid Afridi. “We have made him captain till the World T20 and we will stand with him.”
However, the Pakistan think-tank must be quite worried over the World T20 preparations after the successive T20 series defeats to England and New Zealand.
When asked that tainted medium fast bowler Mohammad Amir had raised doubts by bowling his first deliveries as wides in the T20 and ODI against the Kiwis, the chairman said: “Every bowler bowls wide deliveries, you should also see that he has taken three wickets in today’s match.”
For more detail We want to encourage our team, not malign it: Shaharyar
PCB chairman Shaharyar M Khan, talking to media after inaugurating the Benazir Bhutto Women Cricket Tournament at the Bagh-i-Jinnah ground here on Monday, said: “I have no serious concerns over the team’s performance against New Zealand but some little changes may be made. In fact, we want to encourage our team instead of bringing them down.
“Whenever we play outside the country it is a difficult proposition for us. In England and New Zealand we face a lot of problems due to the seaming conditions,” Shaharyar said. “India, too, have lost matches to Australia in Australia.
“Wins and losses are part of the game. In today’s ODI against New Zealand, we got their six wickets for just 99 but their lower order batsmen did a very good job, so it is all part of the game,” the chairman said.
He also defended T20 captain Shahid Afridi. “We have made him captain till the World T20 and we will stand with him.”
However, the Pakistan think-tank must be quite worried over the World T20 preparations after the successive T20 series defeats to England and New Zealand.
When asked that tainted medium fast bowler Mohammad Amir had raised doubts by bowling his first deliveries as wides in the T20 and ODI against the Kiwis, the chairman said: “Every bowler bowls wide deliveries, you should also see that he has taken three wickets in today’s match.”
For more detail We want to encourage our team, not malign it: Shaharyar
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