After Pakistan’s loss against Bangladesh, PCB chief mulls domestic strength: ‘You can’t dump someone unless you have a better one to replace’ | Cricket News
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Mohsin Naqvi believes cricket in the country needs ‘major surgery’ after the team’s disastrous 10-wicket loss against Bangladesh in the Rawalpindi Test on Sunday. Naqvi, who spoke on the occasion of making public the five mentors of Pakistan’s One-Day tournament (Champions Cup), pressed on a dire need of backup players emerging from the domestic circuit. “The problem is the selection committee has no pool to turn to from which to select players,” he said. “I spoke of surgery because we need to fix our problems. But when we look at how to resolve them, we don’t have any solid data or player pool which we can draw from. The whole system was a mess. The Champions Cup will produce great talent, and we’ll have records for the games that happen. For surgery, you need all the tools to perform it.” Furthermore, Naqvi called for a systemic data bank on the players featuring in the domestic circuit. “We had a lot of players for which we didn’t have records,” Naqvi said. …