Sunday, December 22nd, 2024

Pakistan cricket is in a strange crisis, could not announce T20 World Cup team, know what will happen now


New Delhi. Pakistan cricket is in a different kind of crisis, due to which it is not even able to announce the team. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has postponed the announcement of its World Cup squad till the end of May due to fitness and performance related problems of some players. A PCB source said Pakistan will announce its T20 World Cup squad on May 23 or 24, which is the time set by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for competing teams to make changes to their squad without permission from the World Cup Technical Committee. There is also a limit.

The management and selectors are concerned about minor injuries to Mohammad Rizwan, Azam Khan, Irfan Khan Niazi and Haris Rauf and will keep an eye on their performances in Ireland and England.

The PCB selectors will announce the team for the tour of Ireland and England on Thursday. The team management and selectors will assess the fitness and performance of the selected players before announcing the World Cup squad. So far India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand have announced their World Cup teams.

The PCB source said, ‘It (delay) does not matter because all these countries can change their entire teams by May 24. After that, changes can be allowed only on the basis of fitness or injury with the approval of the technical committee. He said, ‘That is why the PCB and the selectors have decided to wait till after the first match in England.’ (input language)

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