New Delhi: The Pakistan Cricket Board will form an independent committee after insistence for it from players for smoother communication with officials. The PCB’s two-member panel will strive to act as a bridge between players and officials, it was decided after a cricket conference on Monday.
Pakistan cricket team’s white-ball and red-ball coaches Gary Kirsten and Jason Gillespie along with PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi and other top officials of the board attended the conference.
Naqvi said that the panel will be formed soon to address their grievances after players raised concerns of communication with top PCB officials.
Test captain Shan Masood and white-ball skipper Babar Azam received support from Muhammad Rizwan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan and other players when they raised the issue of misunderstanding and miscommunication.
The players said that they needed an independent committee to air their grievances on international and domestic cricket departments.
As Pakistan don’t have any recognised players’ association, players said they needed a sense of security while playing for the national team and needed clear communication from selectors over key issues that included captaincy.
Naqvi has told players that there won’t be any changes to captaincy and the players should concentrate on improving their performances
“He (Naqvi) basically told the players that whoever the board had as captains the players must support them and play as one regardless of the format,” PTI quote a source as saying.
“It provided us a forum to identifying issues and resolving them,” PCB Chief Operating Officer Salman Naseer said.
The session was about openly and candidly accepting and identifying (issues) and ask for a commitment from each other… demand it on how we can improve our performances and how we work together as a team.
“Our unanimous view was that we need to resolve this going forward and need to identify how we do it.”
Pakistan cricket team’s white-ball and red-ball coaches Gary Kirsten and Jason Gillespie along with PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi and other top officials of the board attended the conference. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
