I would have chosen Yousuf ahead of Sohail Tanvir – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084
Former Pakistan captain and the current coach of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 cricket team, Rashid Latif, feels the PCB selectors should have picked veteran middle-order batsman Mohammad Yousuf ahead of pace bowler, Sohail Tanvir, in the World Cup squad.
"The squad is balanced, but I feel selectors have made a mistake by leaving out Mohammad Yousuf”, said Latif. “I would have chosen Yousuf ahead of Sohail Tanvir", he added further.
Latif, who will be coaching underdogs Afghanistan in the World Cup, which kicks off on 19 February, also feels the delay in announcement of Pakistan’s team captain for the World Cup campaign is creating disharmony within the team.
Latif feels that 'disagreements' within the board have led to an announcement of the squad without naming a captain.
PCB’s decision to withhold the name of the captain has surprised Latif as well as he said that all other boards named their captains while announcing the final squad and feels that 'disagreements' within the board have led to an announcement of Pakistan’s
squad without a captain.
The former Pakistan wicketkeeper claimed that the Pakistan Cricket Board is at loggerheads with current limited overs captain, Shahid Afridi, as he has over-looked instructions of the crown king http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 on many occasions in the past.
"The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) doesn't want http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 series”.
Afridi’s bad habit of publically criticizing his men after every loss has further weakened his case for captaincy in the esteemed World Cup event.
However, Latif still feels Afridi is the best man to lead the side in the mega event. The former gloveman, who played 37 Tests and 166 One Day Internationals in his 11-year-long international career, said that if the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board had any plans
of handing over captaincy to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 in the quadrennial event, they should have appointed him earlier.
The Afghanistan cricket coach has picked emerging sensation, Umar Akmal as the player to watch out for in the mega cricketing event and has urged the management to let him play his own aggressive game.
"Umar can show once again that he is one of the best players in the Pakistan team at the moment”, he said. “He is not being allowed to play his natural game. He should be allowed to play his natural attacking game", urged the former captain of Pakistan.
Pakistan has been placed in Group A alongside defending champions http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 and Kenya.
Pakistan will kick-start their World Cup campaign against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 at Hambantota, on 23 February.
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