PCB NEWS: New Chairman of Selectors is.........Moin Khan!!!

[GoldenAsif]

Re: PCB NEWS: New Chairman of Selectors is…Moin Khan!!!

@Ajju

Your post sure raised doubts on Moin and other selectors just because they are from Karachi while evidence shows that players from Karachi tend to get short end of the stick.

Fact is that batsmen from Karachi or Lahore are not coming out with exceptional talent and performances. Some of it is because of the way chopping and changing has gone in selection. IMO a young player selected should be given atleast five or more matches to show if he has what it takes. Some time good players can have one or two bad matches in the beginning and some time mediocre player get lucky in first few tries.

Of the present lot, I think Azhar Ali needs to come back to the ODI team. He was the best batsman in Sri Lanka not too long ago. He has been labeled a test specialist but at the run-rate the team scores in ODI these days he will do fine.

The players from Karachi that deserve to be given a fair chance are Fawad Alam (tests), Shazaib (T20), Sohail Khan.

The team composition at the moment in ODI seems to be out of balance with not enough specialist batsmen. This team has only four specialist batsmen Jamsed, Shahzad, Misbah and Asad. Another specialist batsman (Azhar Ali?) instead of a bowler or all rounder would balance the team and address the weakness of the team.

Pakistan has gone wrong with Whatmore for coach. The team’s approach is too cautious with batting. Whatmore gets the blame for not controlling that and not convincing Misbah to be a bit more aggressive. Mohsin Khan was delivering results and was aggressive. He should have been retained but he is from Karachi… All IMO off course.

I opposed Whatmore’s appointment too. http://www.paklinks.com/gs/cricketnama/534825-pakistans-new-full-time-coach-dav-whatmore-or-mohsin-khan.html

Even Botham could not understand at the time why Pakistan wanted to change a coach who had just overseen victories against Lanka and England. Now Mohsin may have little to do with it but still why change a winning combination?

Misbah is having a negative effect in some ways. Even Jamshed is not the aggressive player he was when he first started

Don’t think Azhar belongs in ODIs. Like Misbah and Asad, he too struggles to rotate the strike. Umar Akmal is a specialist batsman but because our batting is so flimsy he’s been asked to keep wickets as well. The management want a w/k who can bat as well. Don’t need so many tuk tuk players in the same team. Because of earlier players’ tuk tuk or overcautious batting approach, UA was just left with too much to do in the 2nd ODI. Even Hafeez often struggles to rotate the strike. He is woefully out of form with the bat at the moment.