Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Khan Afridi has raised issues concerning the decision-making course of inside the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Chatting with the media at a non-public occasion, Shahid Afridi expressed his frustration, stating that Pakistan’s cricket has been within the ICU for a very long time.
Nevertheless, he identified that after each failure, they solely begin doing surgical procedures, with out addressing the underlying points.
Afridi additionally questioned the choice course of, noting that gamers who fail to carry out usually make a return to the crew. He remarked that those that have been dropped at present would doubtless be included within the ODI or T20 groups sooner or later, suggesting a scarcity of consistency in choice.
He emphasised that except a transparent instance is ready, the state of affairs will stay unchanged.
The previous cricketer additionally criticized the PCB management, highlighting that each time a brand new chairman takes over, he makes sweeping modifications, believing that he alone can repair every thing.
Afridi urged the necessity to place the precise particular person in the precise place, stressing the necessity for higher administration and management within the PCB.
He believes Mohammad Rizwan is the only option as captain and he has enormously supported the wicketkeeper-batsman relating to the management function.
“Rizwan is the [best] of all the alternatives. I’ve enormously [supported] Rizwan because the captain,” Afridi.
In the meantime, Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has prolonged his help to the Pakistan cricket crew following their early exit from the Champions Trophy 2025.
The hosts and defending champions have been knocked out of the Champions Trophy 2025 after successive defeats by the hands of New Zealand and India.Followers and several other former cricketers bashed the nationwide facet for his or her winless marketing campaign within the match.