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Former captain Rashid Latif urged the Pakistan Cricket Board to overtake the workforce’s tempo assault, wanting past frontline pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah, as he felt they weren’t “contributing enough.” Afridi and Shah are set to guide Pakistan’s tempo battery within the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy. “When was the last time Afridi delivered a match-winning performance?” Latif questioned. He mentioned even Shah had not been in a position to ship persistently regardless of having an extended stint with the nationwide workforce in numerous codecs.
“Naseem has also not contributed significantly to Pakistan’s success,” the previous wicketkeeper-batsman mentioned in an interview throughout a channel.
He mentioned the defeat in opposition to New Zealand within the ongoing tri-series opener was an instance of how in latest instances the pacers had not delivered for Pakistan.
“I have concerns over the form of Shaheen, Naseem and others and I feel they have not performed as expected.” He urged the PCB to take a recent strategy by discovering new quick bowlers and making certain that senior gamers had been held accountable for his or her underwhelming performances.
He felt that gamers like Khushdil Shah and Salman Agha are steadily criticised, whereas senior gamers like Afridi, Babar Azam, and Muhammad Rizwan not often face scrutiny for his or her performances.
“No one is talking about these players’ lacklustre performances,” Latif mentioned.
Legendary Javed Miandad famous that the selectors had been relying closely on the tempo assault to ship within the Champions Trophy.
“I am hopeful that the pace bowlers will deliver when it matters for us in this tournament. We have just one specialist spinner and the rest are not regular spinners,” Miandad mentioned.
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