http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Mahmood-c1116 repents on refusing Pakistan’s captaincy – Cricket News Update
Azhar Mahmood, the out of favour Pakistani all-rounder has revealed that he was offered the captaincy of Pakistan cricket team in early 2000s but he refused and now feels that he made the biggest mistake of his cricketing career by not accepting the offer.
The all-rounder last represented http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2007 in the Caribbean and since then he has been sidelined. However, the cricketer from Islamabad was at the peak of his career in late 1990s and early 2000s and was considered among
the top all-rounders of international cricket.
Azhar has been playing for different counties since many years and is doing exceedingly well in the domestic cricket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
In his interview for Pakpassion, Azhar revealed that the former Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), General Tauqeer Zia offered him the captaincy but he refused because the all-rounder felt that he wanted to concentrate on his individual performance
at that time and captaining the Green Shirts would have been a difficult job, especially because there were a number of super stars in that team. However, he repents his decision now.
The all-rounder said, “I would say it was the biggest mistake of my cricket career. May be my career would have turned out differently if I had accepted the captaincy. People didn’t want me to become the captain. I also rejected it [the captaincy] at that
time. I thought it was too early for me. I just wanted to concentrate on my cricket.”
He praised the performance of Zia as the head Pakistan cricket and feels that the former military man did a great job for the country and said that the former chairman had great confidence in his abilities as a cricketer.
“I really rate him [Tauqir Zia] highly. During his tenure, Pakistan cricket got better and better and a lot of good things happened. I am extremely thankful to him for even considering me as a future captain”, he added.
Azhar has been a great servant of Pakistan cricket but now he is settled in England and is just concentrating on County cricket instead of harbouring hopes for an international return.
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