Inzamam ul Haz has questioned the logic to take away Muhammad Hafeez as group director as the previous Pakistan captain and chief selector has urged the PCB to keep away from making gamers the scapegoats for nationwide group’s defeats.

The PCB had final month parted methods with Mohammad Hafeez resulting from latest poor outcomes, together with 0-3 Test defeat in Australia adopted by 1-4 T20I collection defeat in New Zealand.

Hafeez’s contract, initially short-term, concluded after the T20 collection in New Zealand, following the sports activities ministry’s advice towards a long-term settlement.

“Can someone explain the reasoning behind removing Muhammad Hafeez as team director but retaining Wahab Riaz as chief selector after the Australian and New Zealand tours,” Inzamam stated on a TV present.

“Weren’t both appointed at same time and given same responsibilities so why has only Hafeez been held accountable and not Wahab Riaz,” Inzamam requested.

The former cricket nice, who resigned in acrimonious circumstances throughout final yr’s World Cup as chief selector, additionally urged the PCB to start out respecting gamers.

“The PCB Chairman no doubt is a highly respectable position but don’t former captains and stalwarts deserve the same amount of respect from the top board officials,” stated Inzamam, who was the chief selector from 2016-19.

Inzamam narrated how throughout his dispute with the Board over his battle of curiosity case he was proven no respect by former board Chairman, Zaka Ashraf.

“We had a meeting scheduled at the PCB offices after this story about me having a conflict of interest as chief selector broke out.

”I was sitting with (PCB officials) Salman Naseer and Aliya Rasheed waiting for the chairman to come,” he recalled.

“But he went to the academy and from there called Naseer and Aliya to meet him and I was told to wait as he would not be seeing me. Only Aliya returned after a time and told me about the inquiry committee,” he added.

“I was hurt by this behavior from the Chairman. Every details of agents and their companies who work with players are available with ICC and PCB and it was not such a big deal and I told them I would resign and they can complete their inquiry,” Inzamam acknowledged.

The former skipper stated he was nonetheless ready for the PCB to launch findings of the inquiry committee which probed into his battle of curiosity case.

“Pakistan cricket cannot be run in this manner. It is time the board officials also accepted responsibility for their actions.” Inzamam additionally stated he by no means wished to take over as chief selector earlier than the Asia Cup because the earlier choice committee had already chosen gamers.

“I told the board it would be better if I took charge after the World Cup but the Chairman insisted I should accept the offer immediately.”

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