The new cricket administration committee of the PCB has made it clear that centrally contracted gamers have to abide by their contractual clauses and no breach will probably be tolerated on this regard. A well-informed supply stated that Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf and Shahnawaz Dahani, specifically, had been reminded that it isn’t their job to tweet in favour of who ought to be Pakistan’s captain. Shaheen and Haris had tweeted overtly, supporting Babar as captain and even warned that nobody ought to take into consideration altering him after the 0-3 collection defeat in opposition to England this month.

But Shaheen has now deleted that tweet after the brand new board set-up, together with chairman Najam Sethi, knowledgeable the gamers that their job was to deal with cricket and carry out effectively as professionals for the nation.

“Sethi has given out a clear message that no more shenanigans on the social media or breaches of central contracts will be tolerated from any player,” the source said.

Ramiz Raja, who was removed as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) by the country’s government, had given plenty of liberty to the players during his tenure, allowing them to interact a lot on social media.

But the players have now been told that they must avoid making comments on matters which are purely the domain of the cricket board.

Pakistan captain Babar Azam said at a pre-match conference on Sunday that the changes in the board would not affect the players as they are professionals and are supposed to perform for the country.

“There have been adjustments however we aren’t involved with that, our foremost focus is to win the collection in opposition to New Zealand. We haven’t any say in issues of the board,” he said.

Babar, whose Test captaincy is on the line after the whitewash against England, said that interim chief selector, Shahid Afridi had spoken to him before adding three more players to the national squad for the two Tests against New Zealand.

Pace bowlers, Mir Hamza and Shahnawaz Dahani and off-spinner, Sajid Khan were added to the squad by the new national selection committee that also includes Abdul Razzaq, Rao Iftikher and Haroon Rasheed. PTI Cor ATK ATK

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