Karachi : Pakistan’s head coach Waqar Younis and his support staff are under fire after chief selector Haroon Rasheed said unnecessary changes in the national team was one of the reasons for their 1-3 defeat to England in the ODI series. “The series loss is disappointing but at the end of the day the national selectors can only select 15 or 16 players and the team management than has to make best use of them. “We need to look at the fact that too many unnecessary changes and shuffling in the team does shake the confidence of players and affects performances. There is a need to have stability and consistency in team selection.”
It is the first time Haroon, a former test batsman has directly spoken about the team management for not utilizing the selected squad properly. A well-informed source in the Pakistan cricket board said that Haroon had also written to the top two bigwigs of the board, chairman Shaharyar Khan and Najam Sethi and requested them to look into the matter. “He has sought a full meeting with the captain, head coach and other coaches in supervision of Shaharyar and Sethi to discuss the performances,” the source said. Haroon noted that England had stuck with the same playing eleven in the series despite losing the first match. “In contrast they were changes in every match in our team,” he added. He said the selectors sat down and selected atleast three proper openers in a team.
