Wahab Riaz will be assisted by 03 old player
2023.12.02
Chief selector Wahab Riaz will be assisted by Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal, and Rao Iftikhar.
The PCB has appointed former international cricketers Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar and Salman Butt as consultant members to chief selector Wahab Riaz.PCB
With immediate effect, the three will assume their positions on the selection panel. Following the end of their Test trip to Australia, Pakistan’s five-match Twenty20 International series against New Zealand will begin on January 12 and mark their first assignment as consultant members.
The PCB stated that the three could be assigned other responsibilities, such running skill camps, when they are not doing selection duties.
Anjum and Akmal have both previously held selection-related duties. Before quitting all forms of cricket in February, Akmal played for Pakistan in 53 Tests, 157 ODIs, and 58 T20Is during the course of a 15-year career. Earlier this year, he was appointed chair of the PCB’s Junior Selection committee. In addition, he was named chairman of an eight-person selection committee that will choose regional and district teams through trials for the Under-13, Under-16, and Under-19 divisions.
Anjum was a member of a three-person committee when Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi were appointed interim chief selectors of the Pakistan men’s national team later last year. Anjum played one Test, 62 ODIs, and two T20Is for Pakistan.sportzlanka.com
Butt, the former captain, will be taking on an official job with the PCB for the first time since he returned from a protracted ban due to his involvement in the 2010 spot-fixing controversy. When he was given the ban, he had captained 33 Tests, 78 ODIs, and 24 T20Is. Following that, Butt never donned Pakistani national colors again, despite the fact that he played first-class cricket and had an invitation from the PCB to become a pundit in 2020.
The PCB released a statement much later in the day announcing that the consultants would not be able to make decisions on their own. “Consultant members assist the chief selector by providing recommendations, collecting feedback and identifying top-performing talent in domestic cricket,” added the statement. “It is their responsibility to provide this information to the selection committee and chief selector so that they can take it into account when making decisions. The Consultant Members lack the authority to make decisions on their own.”
Muhammad Hafeez was named team director amidst the flurry of changes, and he will also lead Pakistan’s national squad in Australia and New Zealand.
On November 20, the team for the three-match Test series against Australia was selected. Following Babar Azam’s resignation from the captaincy in all formats last month, Shan Masood will be captain of Pakistan for the first time during this series.
@sportzlanka.com
