LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi clarified his previous remarks regarding the surgery of the national men’s team, lamenting the lack of a pool of players.
Naqvi on Monday, interacted with the media here at Gaddafi Stadium and asserted that the senior men’s selection committee does not have a pool of players, whom they can pick as the replacement for the under-performing players, thus, indicating that the surgery of the team has been put on hold.
“The problem is that our selection committee does not have a bank [of players] from which they can select the players.
“If we used to talk about the surgery, it was because we definitely wanted to rectify our shortcomings.
“But for that, we do not have [enough players] and data, on the basis which we can say that we have a list of 10-25 players to replace for example four players.”
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Mohsin Naqvi then claimed that the upcoming Champions Cup will help Pakistan Cricket to explore and unearth new talent and also that the selection committee would have an ample pool of players to make changes in the setup after the completion of the domestic tournament.
“We will have a crop of talent from the Champions Cup, we would have the record as well then we would be able to do whatever needed. The problem with the surgery is that one should have sufficient tools.
“Once the Champions Cup gets completed and the record gets maintained then we would have a pool of around 150 players. After that, the selection would easily decide who needs to be replaced by whom and who needs the surgery.”
Mohsin Naqvi also commented on the scheduling of the ongoing Test series between Pakistan and Bangladesh and clarified that the decision to host the second Test in Karachi had already been made prior to his involvement, but he later decided to alter that decision due to the ongoing renovation at the venue.
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