PCB’s action forces Rashid Latif to rejoin Afghan cricket
Pakistan’s former wicketkeeper and batting coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084 has once again decided to move to the Afghanistan Cricket as a full time coach. Latif’s decision came days after he stepped down from his post as the wicket keeping coach of the National Cricket
Academy.
Rashid Latif’s resignation came in the wake of his remarks regarding the match fixing scandal that the tremulous Pakistan cricket is currently embroiled in. His remarks made on a local TV program earned him a show cause notice from the Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB) alleging a code of conduct violation.
Rashid, 42, declined the charges making it clear to the PCB as well as former Pakistani cricketers that he cannot remain ignorant of hullabaloo maiming Pakistan cricket as it is the game he has served for more than eleven years between 1992 and 2003.
Rashid started his career with Pakistan cricket team in 1992. He played 37 Test matches catching 119 preys behind the stumps, while 11 players were stumped out by him. He took 182 catches in 166 ODIs while his 38 ODI stumps were other than those catches.
He also served the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket team as its captain in 2003 before retiring from international cricket.
The former wicketkeeper said that nobody can challenge his loyalty and affiliation with Pakistan cricket. Latif revealed that he has replied to the show cause notice served to him by the PCB but rejected the allegations of breaching board’s code of conduct.
He added that being a former Pakistani cricketer, it is his right to highlight the real issues in an unbiased and impartial way.
Meanwhile, after a run-in with the PCB, Latif has decided to return to the Pakistan’s southern neighbors, Afghanistan. Rashid’s decision to rejoin Afghanistan cricket team as their coach came barely a month after his resignation as Afghanistan’s head coach.
He confirmed that his recent discussions with the Afghan cricket officials had led to his coaching appointment. While talking to the reporters, Rashid maintained that it was the interest and talent of Afghani players that made him move to Afghanistan as
their batting coach. Latif praised the cricketing talent of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 saying that some of the Afghan cricketers are so bright that they can compete with any international team. He further added that his target during the two-year tenure with Afghanistan
team would be to guide them to Test status.
Latif had earlier managed the Afghanistan team for hardly one month before developing differences with the Afghan board authorities that ended in his resignation. Latif said that Afghanistan team is an exciting side and his chemistry matches well with them.
He argued that the thinking and mentality of Afghan players goes well with him as they are straightforward persons like him, “They, like me, cannot tolerate wrongdoing.”
Rashid stated that the game would heal the scars of war that the country had been embroiled in for more than thirty years. "Cricket is now more popular than the bullet in Afghanistan and I am moved by the interest and available talent there," said the former
wicketkeeper who represented Pakistan in more than 160 one-day matches.
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