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Chief selector quits over player row with PCB
By Rizwan Ali
Wednesday, 08 Oct, 2008
Chief selector of Pakistan Cricket Board Salahuddin Ahmed resigned citing interference, Wednesday Oct 8, 2008.
ISLAMABAD: Salahuddin Ahmed quit as Pakistan's chief cricket selector on Wednesday after claiming a player change was made to the country's squad for a Twenty20 tournament without his knowledge.
Ahmed said he and fellow selectors Shafqat Rana and Saleem Jaffar had picked spinner Saeed Ajmal in the 15-player squad for the four-day event starting Friday, but rookie opening batsman Shoaib Khan was instead included.
'I left for Karachi immediately after finalizing the team but when the Pakistan Cricket Board announced the team in Lahore, Shoaib Khan was named in the squad,' Ahmed said. 'Nobody in the cricket board had the courtesy to ask me or the other two selectors before replacing a player and I felt insulted.
'I have faxed my resignation to the PCB office in Lahore as I do not compromise on merit.'
PCB spokesman Mansoor Suhail was not available for comment.
The Pakistan team was scheduled to leave later Wednesday to compete in the four-nation tournament against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Canada in Toronto, Canada.
The 61-year-old Ahmed was appointed chief selector in April 2007 for a two-year term soon after Pakistan made a first-round exit from the World Cup.
'We had already selected three openers in the 15-member squad for the Toronto event and it makes little sense to include a fourth one,'' Ahmed added. 'It's not the right decision.'
Soon after Ahmed's appointment, Pakistan won a three-match, one-day international series against World Cup finalist Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi and went on to play the final of the first Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
However, Pakistan lost a test and one-day series at home to South Africa and a test series at India in December 2007.
By Rizwan Ali
Wednesday, 08 Oct, 2008
Chief selector of Pakistan Cricket Board Salahuddin Ahmed resigned citing interference, Wednesday Oct 8, 2008.
ISLAMABAD: Salahuddin Ahmed quit as Pakistan's chief cricket selector on Wednesday after claiming a player change was made to the country's squad for a Twenty20 tournament without his knowledge.
Ahmed said he and fellow selectors Shafqat Rana and Saleem Jaffar had picked spinner Saeed Ajmal in the 15-player squad for the four-day event starting Friday, but rookie opening batsman Shoaib Khan was instead included.
'I left for Karachi immediately after finalizing the team but when the Pakistan Cricket Board announced the team in Lahore, Shoaib Khan was named in the squad,' Ahmed said. 'Nobody in the cricket board had the courtesy to ask me or the other two selectors before replacing a player and I felt insulted.
'I have faxed my resignation to the PCB office in Lahore as I do not compromise on merit.'
PCB spokesman Mansoor Suhail was not available for comment.
The Pakistan team was scheduled to leave later Wednesday to compete in the four-nation tournament against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Canada in Toronto, Canada.
The 61-year-old Ahmed was appointed chief selector in April 2007 for a two-year term soon after Pakistan made a first-round exit from the World Cup.
'We had already selected three openers in the 15-member squad for the Toronto event and it makes little sense to include a fourth one,'' Ahmed added. 'It's not the right decision.'
Soon after Ahmed's appointment, Pakistan won a three-match, one-day international series against World Cup finalist Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi and went on to play the final of the first Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
However, Pakistan lost a test and one-day series at home to South Africa and a test series at India in December 2007.
