Mohammad Yousaf resigns as Pakistan workforce selector

Former Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Yousaf. —PCB website/ File
Former Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Yousaf. —PCB web site/ File 

After serving for about six months within the capability, former cricketer Mohammad Yousaf on Sunday stepped down as a member of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) choice committee “resulting from private causes”.

In an announcement, Yousaf mentioned he was proud to play his half in development of the nationwide squad. He wished the workforce all the very best, saying he had religion within the gamers’ expertise. 

“I announce my resignation as a selector for the Pakistan cricket workforce resulting from private causes. Serving this unbelievable workforce has been a profound privilege, and I’m proud to have contributed to the expansion and success of Pakistan Cricket.

“I’ve immense religion within the expertise and spirit of our gamers, and Want our workforce all the very best as they proceed to attempt for greatness,” he wrote on X.

Mohammad Yousaf resigns as Pakistan team selector

Yousaf was appointed as a member of the Pakistan workforce’s choice committee in March this yr.

PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on March 24 introduced a reorganised nationwide choice committee comprising seven members.

Talking throughout a press convention in Lahore, Naqvi had mentioned that the committee wouldn’t have a md and all seven members would have equal powers.

Following Inexperienced Shirts’ dismal efficiency and elimination from the T20 World Cup 2024, the PCB had made main adjustments within the workforce administration by sacking former pacer Wahab Riaz and former all-rounder Abdul Razzaq from the seven-member choice committee whereas retaining Yousuf, Asad Shafiq and Bilal Afzal.

Wahab was a member of the boys’s choice committee, whereas Razzaq was a part of the choice committees for each males’s and girls’s groups.

Moreover, the board had eliminated Riaz from the submit of senior workforce supervisor as properly together with workforce supervisor Rana Mansoor because of the lack of self-discipline over the past three excursions of the boys’s workforce.