If we continue with old fashioned ways then how will we become the world number one or two (team) until we don\u2019t implement changes?
\n KARACHI
\nShahid Afridi, newly appointed interim chair of the men\u2019s national team selection committee, on Sunday hinted at the possibility of senior players returning to the Pakistan men\u2019s cricket team.
\nAfridi was appointed as the interim head of the men\u2019s national selection committee for the home series against New Zealand by the Pakistan Cricket Board Management Committee led by Najam Sethi on Saturday.
\nIn his first decision in his new role, Afridi had added three players to the team a day before, including pacers Mir Hamza and Shahnawaz Dahani and off-spinner Sajid Khan.
\nDuring his first media talk in Karachi upon assuming his new office, the selection committee head was questioned about any changes to the batting lineup such as bringing back Sarfaraz Ahmed to which he said: \u201cBabar Azam said something a few days ago that the \u2018workload should be shifted\u2019 which is very good. There are many players who have been continuously playing all three formats and it sometimes becomes difficult.\u201d
\nAfridi said the bench should be so strong that any player\u2019s missing presence is not felt by or impacts the team\u2019s performance. \u201cWe have such players who are seniors who have been relegated outside (the team) for many days,\u201d he said.
\nAbout his decision to add the three players, Afridi termed it a \u201cvery good decision\u201d of the selection committee to induct two more fastbowlers, adding that he found out that teenage pace sensation Naseem Shah was still not fully fit.
\n\u201cThat decision of ours was good. Our bowlers who we have been carrying (idly) for many years such as Dahani, when will we let him play and give him a chance and make him a bowler?
\n\u201cAnd then there is Mir Hamza because we don\u2019t have Shaheen Shah Afridi so we have a need for a fastbowler and I think that boy deserves it and has given good performances,\u201d Afridi said.
\nHe added that the national selection committee would have a meeting soon with skipper Babar Azam about the final lineup of the team. \u201cThis selection committee has come here to make Azam as good a captain as good a world-class batter he is,\u201d Afridi added.
\nThe interim selection committee head said Azam was the \u201cbackbone\u201d of the team and the committee wanted him to be counted among the \u201cworld-class captains\u201d. \u201cWe have basically come here to support him, share our experiences and to help him out in the areas in which I think there can be (further) improvement.\u201d
\nRegarding the committee\u2019s approach, Afridi said it would try to make up for and \u201ccover\u201d many practices of the past. He also said the committee had ideas about new approaches.
\n\u201cIf we continue with old fashioned ways then how will we become the world number one or two (team) until we don\u2019t implement changes?\u201d
\nHe said the selection committee was formed only for the current NZ series and was aware of its responsibility.
\nPakistan\u2019s Test series against New Zealand begins with the first match in Karachi on Monday.
\nRevised squad: Babar Azam (captain), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Kamran Ghulam, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Moham\u00acmad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Saud Shakeel, Shahnawaz Dahani, Shan Masood and Zahid Mehmood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If we continue with old fashioned ways then how will we become the world number one or two (team) until we don\u2019t implement changes? KARACHI Shahid Afridi, newly appointed interim chair of the men\u2019s national team selection committee, on Sunday hinted at the possibility of senior players returning to the Pakistan men\u2019s cricket team. Afridi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n