Amid mounting criticism over Pakistan’s inconsistent performances across formats, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi has sought to draw attention to what he believes has been steady progress in the team’s white-ball campaign.
Naqvi feels Pakistan’s improvements in the limited-overs formats have been overshadowed by the intense criticism surrounding the side’s recent results.
During his tenure as PCB chief, Naqvi considers Pakistan’s rise to fifth in the ICC ODI rankings and sixth in the T20I rankings among the team’s notable achievements.
“You used to be ranked eighth in ODIs, which has now gone up to fifth. You have had six ODI series, out of which you have won four, but still, our cricket is finished? Our success rate has gone up from 24 per cent to 73 per cent, and I’m not talking about just one or the other specific match, but still, our cricket is finished?” he said to media in London as per PTI.
Naqvi hit back at the team’s critics, claiming that those who question the players’ performances have never accomplished anything themselves.
“Those players who have never achieved anything in their lives, when they talk along these lines, that’s unreasonable. Sometimes there are mistakes made in selection as well. I am answerable for that, and we need to work on it,” he said, adding that sometimes it was necessary to remove players if they do not perform.
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