NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s senior batter Fakhar Zaman has been disregarded of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) central contracts for the primary time in eight years, with PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi confirming that the choice was influenced by each health points and Zaman’s controversial social media feedback relating to the choice committee.
Talking at a press convention on Sunday, Naqvi acknowledged that Zaman’s public criticism of the choice to drop Babar Azam from the Take a look at squad through the England collection performed a task in his exclusion however careworn that his failure to clear a health take a look at was the extra important issue.
“There is a matter relating to his tweet, however it isn’t as necessary as his health take a look at,” Naqvi defined. “There’s a show-cause discover pending in opposition to him, and we are going to see about that. The primary challenge with him is his health take a look at, which he was not capable of clear.”Zaman had criticized the choice committee’s resolution to drop Babar mid-series, a transfer that didn’t sit effectively with the board. Naqvi made it clear that the PCB wouldn’t tolerate gamers publicly commenting on inner choice issues. “It can’t occur that if the choice committee is just not taking part in one participant, then others begin tweeting to specific their displeasure. Gamers usually are not allowed to operate like this, and we are going to by no means permit that,” he added.
Fakhar Zaman’s removing from the contracts record sees him omitted from Class B, which now consists of Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah. Class A stays unchanged, that includes Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan. The PCB additionally introduced new names in Classes C and D, with gamers like Shadab Khan, Haris Rauf, and Saud Shakeel included within the decrease tiers.
Full record of gamers in Pakistan’s central contracts
- Class A: Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan.
- Class B: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Shan Masood (topic to captaincy).
- Class C: Abdullah Shafique, Shadab Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Noman Ali (topic to health), Haris Rauf, Saim Ayub.
- Class D: Aamer Jamal, Mohammad Wasim, Mohammad Hurraira, Mir Hamza, Khurram Shehzad, Mohammad Ali, Usman Khan, Irfan Khan, Haseebullah Khan, Abbas Afridi, Kamran Ghulam.
