Shahid Afridi has come out in assist of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on their stance for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. He mentioned that if India can not come to play of their nation, then there isn’t a level for Pakistan to go and play there.
India Nationwide Cricket Staff have declined to journey to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. They’ve cited the safety menace and have requested for the event to be performed within the hybrid mannequin with India video games to be performed within the United Arab Emirates.
PCB has agreed to just accept the hybrid mode for ICC Champions Trophy 2025 however has saved 4 calls for
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has agreed to just accept the hybrid mannequin after the strain from the ICC. Nonetheless, they’ve saved 4 calls for in entrance of the ICC and the BCCI as compensation, and this has delayed the ultimate resolution associated to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, with the event across the nook.
One of many calls for that the Pakistan Cricket Board has saved is they need all of the ICC occasions in India to be performed within the Hybrid mannequin. It’s because they imagine that they do not need to go to India if the Males In Blue do not need to come to Pakistan to play within the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Pakistan cricket ought to be robust and autonomous and take robust principled selections – Shahid Afridi sees no cause for Pakistan to go to India
Shahid Afridi believes that Pakistan Cricket ought to be robust and self-sufficient. He batted for the Pakistan crew, not touring to India for ICC occasions. He added that the ball is now within the courtroom of the ICC to determine issues. Talking on the Urdu convention on the Karachi Arts Council, he mentioned:
“Pakistan cricket ought to be robust and autonomous and take robust principled selections. If India cannot come and play in Pakistan then there isn’t a cause for us to go and play any occasion in India,”
“Even the ICC now has to determine whether or not its duty is to make sure each member nation will get to play cricket or it simply needs to generate profits.”
We do not have a system to determine gamers and groom them correctly – Shahid Afridi
Shahid Afridi additionally talked concerning the largest downside in Pakistan Cricket. He mentioned that the coverage of the crew adjustments with each new chairman. Whereas citing the instance of Shaheen Afridi, he defined:
“When Shaheen was made Pakistan T20 captain, I used to be towards it, and I mentioned that the board ought to have made Muhammad Rizwan the captain as he was the only option. However as soon as they made Shaheen captain it was additionally fallacious for the PCB to take away him as captain after only one sequence. It affected him.”
Shahid Afridi additionally talked about that Pakistan would not have a system to determine younger gamers and groom them correctly. He added:
“We have now loads of expertise in Pakistan however we additionally lose a lot of this expertise as a result of we do not have a system to determine such gamers and groom them correctly,”
