Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis resign from coaching Pakistan cricket team ahead of T20 World Cup

Akstan cricket team head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis have resigned from their posts immediately.

The two decisions come at a time when the New Zealand cricket team is set to tour Pakistan in the next few days and on Monday chief selector Muhammad Wasim announced the squad for the T20 World Cup.

Misbah-ul-Haq replaced Mickey Arthur as head coach in September 2019. He was also given the post of chief selector. Waqar Younis was also appointed at the same time.

Misbah-ul-Haq says?

Misbah-ul-Haq, the head coach of the Pakistani cricket team, said that during the quarantine in the West Indies, he had a chance to think a lot about the situation of the last two years and the upcoming international cricket schedule.

He said that he would have to spend a lot of time in the coming days in a bio-secure environment away from his family, so he decided to resign from his post.

Misbah-ul-Haq says that he thinks that this is not the right time for him to make this decision, but he does not consider himself mentally capable of facing the challenges ahead, so he considered it appropriate to support this team. It needs a new person to take it forward.

Misbah-ul-Haq coached 16 Test matches, winning seven, losing six and drawing three.

He also coached in 11 ODIs, winning six, losing four and losing one.

Besides, Misbah-ul-Haq has coached in 34 T20 International matches out of which 16 have been won, 13 have been lost and five have not been resolved.

Pakistan cricket team bowling coach Waqar Younis says that when Misbah-ul-Haq informed him of his decision, it was a simple matter for him to resign from his post as we are both in these posts together. They came, worked together, and are going together. '

What does Pakistan Cricket Board say?

The Akstan Cricket Board says it respects Misbah-ul-Haq's decision. The board has also acknowledged that cricket has not been easy these days due to the bio-secure environment and Misbah-ul-Haq has remained in the same situation for six months and has made this decision due to the toughness of cricket.

The board said he did his best for the team in two years.

Now the Pakistan Cricket Board has replaced Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis with Thaqleen Mushtaq and Abdul Razzaq as interim coaches against New Zealand.

Thaqleen Mushtaq is currently associated with the National High Performance Center, while Abdul Razzaq is currently the coach of Central Punjab.

Matter of adjustment over selection performance in T20 World Cup

Pakistan Cricket Board chief selector Muhammad Waseem has announced Pakistan's 15-member squad for next month's T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. The same team will also play home series against New Zealand and England before the World Cup.

The 15-member squad that has been announced does not include any new faces, but the many existing faces that were temporarily removed from the scene have been re-introduced, much to everyone's surprise. There is also a reason why the earlier drop was wrong which is now being proved to be true.

In recent days, Pakistan's biggest problem has been middle order batting. Since Misbah-ul-Haq became the head coach, a total of 17 batsmen have been tested in middle order batting, which shows that the problem is serious but one of the main reasons why the problem is not solved is inconsistency in selection. is also. Repeated changes do not allow any batsman to settle down.

Chief selector Muhammad Waseem while announcing the good news of the re-inclusion of Khushdal Shah and Asif Ali in the team said that their presence would provide firepower to the middle order.

Asif Ali has been playing T20 International cricket since 2018 and has played 29 matches during this period, but in 27 innings of those 29 matches, he has not managed to score a single half-century.

Asif Ali is one of the players who has been given the most opportunities during this period but at no point did he justify his selection.

He played two T20 internationals this year in South Africa and Zimbabwe but failed to make the double figures.

Asif Ali's disappointing performance in T20 Internationals can be gauged from the fact that he has scored only double figures (25 and 29) twice in his last 10 T20 matches.

Khushdal Shah has so far represented Pakistan in nine Twenty20 Internationals as a middle-order batsman, but his highest individual score has been 36.

He was dropped from the team after playing two failed innings of 12 and 15 against South Africa in Lahore this year.

The selection of Asif Ali and Khushdal Shah is also astonishing because there has been no domestic T20 cricket tournament in Pakistan since they were dropped from the team, so the question arises as to the basis of their new return. Has happened?

Sohaib Maqsood, as a successful batsman in PSL and National T20 Cup, made a place in the Pakistan team for the tour of England and West Indies, but his selection five years later did not prove successful by any big innings. Coins

Sohaib Maqsood played 19, 15 and 13 innings in the three matches played during the tour of England, while he could not take advantage of a single opportunity in the West Indies and scored only five runs.

There has been a lot of talk about Sohaib Maqsood's performance as well as his fitness and this was evident in his fielding.

Another surprising aspect of this selection is that Mohammad Nawaz and Emad Wasim have been included in the 15-member squad at the same time even though they are both players of the same style.

Muhammad Waseem Jr. has been given a chance in the fast bowling department but Shahnawaz Dhani could have been selected very easily who has been put in reserve. Shahnawaz Dhani was the most successful bowler in the Pakistan Super League this year with 20 wickets but he was included in the Test squad instead of the T20 squad.

The selectors had included Azam Khan in the tour of England and West Indies where he got to play only two innings. He has been included in the squad as the second wicket-keeper after Mohammad Rizwan but his fitness has also been questioned.

Is Sarfraz Ahmed's career over?

Wicketkeeper-batsman Sarfraz Ahmed's international cricket came to an abrupt end two years ago when he was dropped from the team first as captain and then as a normal player. Sarfraz Ahmed continued to be a part of the tour with the squad of players.

But in those two years, he played only one ODI in Centurion against South Africa, and in two T20 matches against England and Zimbabwe, but he did not bat in either.

New wicketkeeper Mohammad Haris has been included in the squad for the ODI home series against New Zealand and now Azam Khan has been included in the T20 squad as Mohammad Rizwan's deputy wicketkeeper in international cricket for Sarfraz Ahmed. The return does not seem possible.

Rameez Raja, who is set to take over as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board in the next few days, has also recently suggested to Sarfraz Ahmed to retire in a conversation on his YouTube channel. Don't give