PSL 9: Basit Ali offers PCB a daring leadership recommendation
In order to raise the status of Green Shirts, veteran cricketer-turned-coach Basit Ali stated that it is a good idea for newly appointed PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi to give wicketkeeper-batsman Muhammad Rizwan the captaincy of the national side.
However, Kamran Akmal, a fellow pundit and former cricket player, felt that Afridi should be allowed a minimum of one to two years to establish himself as the team’s captain.
“I think this is the best time to name Rizwan captain, to raise the level of Pakistani cricket,” he said. “I have some free advice for the newly-appointed PCB chairman, this is the right time to take this bold step and name him as captain.”
He further criticized left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi’s captaincy, in the recently-lost Pakistan vs New Zealand series, which even led to the decline in his pace, and added, “4-1 defeat from NZ, after Babar’s removal from captaincy, is a good enough reason that bold decisions must be made now, to prepare ahead of World Cup.”
