Sarfraz Nawaz wants to see Shahid Afridi sacked
Pakistan’s former speedster http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 of captaincy of the national team after his distasteful performance while leading the team against New Zealand in the first two Twenty20 matches.
Pakistan lost both the matches in Auckland and Hamilton which has cost them the series and will play the third and last match on Thursday.
Sarfraz was furious at the decisions made by the Pakistan skipper and said that the team mainly lost because of poor planning and lack of leadership by Afridi.
Nawaz criticised Afridi’s decision to open the innings and said that once Afridi got out cheaply, it put pressure on the whole team. Nawaz suggested that the skipper needed to come lower down the order where he could be more effective.
This was Pakistan’s sixth consecutive defeat in Twenty20s, which is quiet alarming because the green shirts have always been considered as a formidable team in this format of the game. The recent slump in this format needs to be addressed by cricket’s governing
authorities in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
Pakistan has already been struggling in the ODI and Test format of the game over the past few years and now these recent defeats in the shortest format of the game show that Pakistan is heading for a train wreck.
The former pacer also criticised the selection of Younis Khan in the Twenty20 squad said, “There is no place of Younis Khan in T20 squad and PCB is forcing Younis to play in the T20 format. The decision of opening with Afridi has dismantled the balance of
the middle order batting and there was no strategy seen in the last two T20 matches played against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754.”
Khan scored 2 runs at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 retired from Twenty20 in 2009 after leading the team to an ICC World Twenty20 title.
However, in 2010 after making his comeback, Khan said that he was ready for all formats of the game and this is the reason why he was selected in all the three formats of the game for the New Zealand tour.
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