Shahid Afridi is expected to be defended as a one-day captain for a ICC World Cup 2011 after Chairman of a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ijaz Butt hold discussions with a group supervision in New Zealand as well as arch handling military military officer in Lahore.
According to a well-informed source in a board, all indications uncover which all-rounder Afridi is expected to lead a side during a mega-event staring from Feb nineteen to be hold mutually by India, Sri Lanka as well as Bangladesh.
The source which Butt hold a half an hour contention with arch handling military military officer currently after his talks with a group supervision in New Zealand.
“Butt himself is not in foster of carrying Afridi as captain as well as is some-more prone towards Misbah-ul-Haq. Even Younis Khan wants Misbah as a skipper. But after removing all a feedbacks as well as suggestions a PCB arch knows which it would be a unsure pierce to shift a ODI captain during this theatre as well as it would be improved to go upon with Afridi,” a source disclosed.
The source additionally combined which Butt as well as a little alternative house officials have mislaid conviction in Afridi over his perspective as well as steady violations of a house instructions in new months.
“Definitely, Afridi is not a prime claimant for captaincy though even a group supervision has told Butt not to shift a captain for a World Cup during this stage.”
He pronounced an additional cause weighing upon a thoughts of Butt is which a little of a comparison players in a furloughed side in New Zealand together with Shoaib Akhtar, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul have been in foster of Afridi as well as wish him to go upon as a World Cup captain.
“The PCB Chairman has a formidable preference to have since he has to safeguard there have been no issues or conflicts inside of a group only prior to a World Cup,” a source stated.
The source additionally sensitive which Butt is expected to make known a World Cup captain this week after a little some-more deliberations in New Zealand.
He even indicated which Butt was confronting vigour from a tip over a captaincy issue.
“Most of a vital sponsors who have invested lot of income in a contest in Pakistan have already rebuilt their campaigns with Shahid Afridi as captain in their commercials. So they have been endangered which any late shift in a captaincy right away would derail their campaigns as well as price them millions of rupees in losses,” a source said.
“These companies have been additionally lobbying inside of a supervision to safeguard which a Pakistan house does not shift Afridi as captain for a World Cup.”
The PCB has come in for serious critique from a series of former players for loitering in fixing a captain for a mega-event.
The former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq even felt which a check had led to groupism inside of a group as well as could infer deleterious for a group during a World Cup.
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