Pakistan Cricket - Retirement of Waqar Younis another fiasco in the offing
It seems as if Pakistan Cricket has recently been cursed by controversies as after a few months of complete silence and bliss another scandal runs rampage in the country’s cricket.
This month, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has been introducing radical changes in the team management by first eliminating team manager http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chaudhri-Ijaz-Ahmed-c50531 and now it has been revealed
that head coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 set to begin in September.
The sudden announcement by Waqar is beyond comprehension as there were no signs of him leaving his post before his announcement. In fact the PCB sacrificed the flamboyant one-day skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 on the behest of Waqar as both had developed estranged
relationship after Pakistan’s tour of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) World Cup 2011.
However, with the team manager, assistant coach and soon the head coach to be gone there is no telling what will happen to the Pakistan cricket team, which is already not in its best shape.
The trio of Waqar, Aaqib and Alam was looking to shapeup the national team and replacing them now will most likely hurt the national squad more than anyone else.
With the debate of a better one-day skipper already on the cards for several months since the ouster of Afridi, now a search for a new coach will probably lead to worsening the cricket scenario in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
Although Waqar in a press conference revealed that he had personal reason for taking his decision, nonetheless, the ground situation suggests otherwise as Waqar had become a controversial figure after the hard-hitting batsman Afridi accused him of coaching
the team with an iron fist without listening to the reservations of the team captain.
However, Waqar chose not to respond to Afridi’s allegations as he thought it to be in the best interest of Pakistan cricket.
A former bowler in the national team himself, Waqar was probably well aware of the team politics in Pakistan cricket before he took charge of the national team in 2010, however, it seems that he has had enough and has chosen to clean his hands from the controversial
Pakistan cricket.
Nonetheless, in a statement he said, “Had everything in my personal life -- that is, my wife's health and my own -- been all right, I would not have taken this decision. But I do not want to fail to do the job justice because of the personal problems on
my mind." Indicating serious personal reasons behind his decision to quit.
According to him, the board has accepted his resignation and if this is the case one leads to ask if Afridi will now be given a chance to make a comeback in the national team.
Although the former skipper in his previous interviews had made is clear that he will not be playing for Pakistan for as long as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 was running things in the PCB, however, now the two men who Afridi had problems with namely Alam and Waqar have been
eliminated from the team management which might push Afridi to come out of his retirement from international cricket and play for the home side once again.
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