http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sarfraz-Nawaz-Malik-c88831 calls for Hafeez’ head – Cricket News Update
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The 63-year-old veteran pacer, who played 55 Tests and 45 One Day Internationals for Pakistan between 1969 and 1984, rated Hafeez as an inefficient captain and urged him to quit the role at the earliest.
Pakistan faced a semi-final exit in the latest edition of the T20 World Cup, after losing the knock out game to hosts Sri Lanka by 16 runs. The 2009 champions dropped match-winning all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sohail-Tanvir-c90665, for the summit clash. The decision backfired a bit on the tourists as they failed to chase down a gettable 140-run target.
On his return home from Sri Lanka, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Razzaq-c84421 blamed captain Hafeez for his exclusion from the playing XI for Sri Lanka tie, while the latter claimed that it was management’s decision to go into the semi-final with an extra seamer.
Like many others, Sarfraz also held Hafeez responsible for Pakistan’s 16-run defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka, stating that the all-rounder completely flopped in handling the players all through the tournament.
Citing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397’s example, the right-arm medium pacer who picked up 240 wickets during his 15-year-long international career asked Hafeez to take responsibility for the team’s failure and step down as the national skipper.
“Hafeez must follow the example of Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene, who despite taking his team to the finals, feeling his responsibility for the loss against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, tendered his resignation from the T20 captaincy. While on the other hand despite playing the entire tournament as underdogs and giving poor performances, Hafeez is still clinging on to the captaincy. At least now he has courage to accept his mistakes and immediately announce resignation from T20 captaincy,” the veteran pacer demanded.
Sarfraz also urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to appoint an independent committee to find out the exact reasons behind national team’s poor show in the latest edition of the World T20.
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