The Pakistan Cricket Board has named former captain Shahid Afridi as interim chief selector of the lads’s staff and ex-internationals Abdul Razzaq and Rao Iftikhar as members of the choice panel.
Najam Sethi, new chairman of the PCB’s administration committee, dissolved the earlier committee that was headed by Mohammad Wasim.
Sethi fired Ramiz Raja as PCB chairman on Thursday after the federal government appointed a administration committee to type a brand new governing board inside 4 months.
Former Test participant Haroon Rasheed, considered one of 14 members within the new interim administration committee, was named as convenor of the choice committee.
Wasim, a former Pakistan middle-order batter, was appointed in 2020 and was anticipated to remain till subsequent 12 months’s 50-over World Cup in India.
Sethi welcomed Afridi as head of the choice panel and hoped the committee “will make brave and bold decisions that will help us produce a strong and competitive side in the series against New Zealand.”
Pakistan has already introduced a 16-strong squad for the two-Test collection towards New Zealand that begins on Monday and it was not clear whether or not the brand new choice committee will now make modifications.
Flamboyant Afridi scored 11,196 runs and took 541 wickets along with his leg-spin bowling in his 27 Test matches, 398 ODIs and 99 Twenty20s.
He additionally captained the staff in 83 worldwide video games. He was a member of the staff which gained the 2009 T20 World Cup in England.
“We need to get back to winning ways,” Afridi mentioned in a press release. “I have no doubts that through meritocratic and strategic selection decisions we will help the national side to perform strongly in the series against New Zealand and reclaim the confidence of our fans.”
New Zealand will probably be taking part in its first worldwide video games in Pakistan since 2003 when it final toured the nation for a limited-overs collection.
Pakistan suffered a 3-0 clear sweep towards England final week, their first whitewash at house in a collection that includes three or extra Test matches.
