PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi Issues A Statement On Pakistan Team's Surgery

The current Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, Mohsin Naqvi has shown his disappointment with the team during a media conference at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. 

The Men in Green were defeated by rivals Bangladesh for the first time ever in the history of test cricket. 

Not only this, the tourists beat the host with a whopping margin of 10 wickets, making it Pakistan’s biggest defeat margin in recent times. 

A few months ago when Naqvi became the Chairman of PCB, he highlighted the importance of performing surgery of the national cricket team. 

The word ‘surgery’ in his statement indicated revamping the cricket team’s structure, starting from the top till the very bottom level. 

However, the Chairman has recently offered an explanation for his previous statement. Mohsin Naqvi said that they don’t have enough players in their pool who could replace the existing underperformers in the team. 

“The problem is that our selection committee does not have a bank [of players] from which they can select the players. If we used to talk about the surgery, it was because we definitely wanted to rectify our shortcomings. But for that, we do not have [enough players] and data, on the basis of which we can say that we have a list of 10-25 players to replace for example four players,” said Mohsin Naqvi on Monday. 

According to the Chairman PCB, the upcoming Champions Cup will help in finding newer talent to replace the existing underachievers. 

This lack of a pool of players could be deemed as a ‘lack of tools for surgery.’

Mohsin Naqvi also commented on the scheduling of the ongoing Test series between Pakistan and Bangladesh and clarified that the decision to host the second Test in Karachi had already been made prior to his involvement, but he later decided to change that decision due to the ongoing construction work at the venue.