Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has changed the selection committee once again, reducing the number of selection committee from 7 to only 5 members.
The board has also entrusted the right to choose the playing XI by empowering only 5 selectors, depriving the captain and head coach of the voting rights to choose the playing XI along with the 15-member team. are given
Aqib Javed, Aleem Dar, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq and Hasan Cheema have been given all the powers for the first time.
Who should be included in the 15-member team will now be decided by these five selectors. In which match, which playing XI will play, this decision will be made by these five selectors. Must be bound to consult with.
The selectors will certainly take the opinion of the team management, but the decision-making authority will be theirs.
The selection committee, which PCB updated for the first time on its website at the time of the selection of new selectors, has Aleem Dar, Aqib Javed, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali and Hasan Cheema as ex-officio and non-voting rights members. Assistant coach Azhar Mehmood, Advisor to Chairman Bilal Afzal, Director High Performance Center Nadeem Khan, Director International Operations Usman Wahla were included.
After 2 hours, it was further updated to add the captain and head coach as voting members to the selection committee members. Now, changing it for the third time, along with the captain and head coach, non-voting members Azhar Mahmood, Nadeem Khan, Bilal Afzal and Usman Wahla have been dismissed.
A PCB official, when contacted by Express News, confirmed that the selection committee, which is now dated on the website, is final and holds all the powers.
The team selected by Asad Shafiq, Hasan Cheema, captain and head coach for the first Test played in Multan had to face failure by an innings and 47 runs. Immediately after which PCB announced to bring forward Aqib Javed, Azhar Ali, Aleem Dar as selectors, from their selected team Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Sarfaraz Ahmed were rested and Haseebullah, Added Mehran Mumtaz, Kamran Ghulam, fast bowler Muhammad Ali, and off-spinner Sajid Khan.
Noman Ali and Zahid Mehmood, who were initially part of the first Test squad but were later released, were also included in the 16-man squad.
