After being clear sweeped by Australia within the three-match Take a look at sequence, issues haven’t gotten any simpler for the Pakistan cricket group on their tour of New Zealand. Led by Shaheen Shah Afridi, the guests path 2-0 within the five-match T20I sequence.
Amidst the defeats are studies of discontent within the Pakistan dressing room that counsel the gamers haven’t taken effectively to the brand new group director Mohammad Hafeez.
Per media studies in Pakistan, the gamers are sad and are rising stressed with “lengthy assembly and lectures” held by Hafeez. “He holds very lengthy conferences and offers lengthy lectures and a number of the gamers get stressed as a result of identical issues are repeated,” one among them recommended.
Additionally doing rounds on the social media are movies of the group director having lengthy discussions with the brand new keeper batter Azam Khan and spinners over technical features.
It’s believed by these within the know of issues that Hafeez, who’s been tasked by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to assign NOC to the gamers for the overseas leagues, granted the identical to solely sure gamers. Whereas Shadab Khan, Azam Khan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi had been granted NOCs for the Worldwide League T20 within the Emirates, when others sought permission for the Bangladesh Premier League, the issuance was stalled.
Hafeez, who was appointed the lads’s group director by the PCB after the group’s dismal outing within the World Cup, has been coping hearth for his or her current failures.
In Australia, the previous Pakistan captain was additionally criticised by many for suggesting that whereas the hosts received the Boxing Day Take a look at, Pakistan had been wronged by the umpires and technological failures and had been “the higher group”.
Hafeez, who made his nationwide group debut in 2003, featured in virtually 400 video games throughout all codecs earlier than he referred to as it quits in 2021.