At last Shahid Afridi selected for Pakistan-Ireland ODI Match that is starting from 28 May 2011 in Belfast. PCB has recently announced the 16 member squad of National cricket team. Misba ul Haq is playing as a Captain of a Pakistani team whereas the other team members are Younus Khan, Tofeeq Umar, Mohammad Hafeez, Asad Shafique, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Tanveer Ahmed, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Salman and Hmad Azam.
But if we look back to the past week, Shahid Afridi had to see a tough time after returning from West Indies. Due to his comments against the team management and interference of Waqar Yonus in the team selection, PCB decided to remove Shahid from captaincy as well as elimination from Ireland tour. In some media footages, Shahid Afridi clearly expressed his anger for Waqar Yonus and his decisions regarding team selections and he even said that everyone should mind his own business rather getting in the way of other affairs. Before the last one day match with West Indies, the conflicts between Shahid Afridi and Waqar Yonus had reached up to such extent that Shahid refused to play the matches.
On returning from West Indies, Shahid’s statements against bowling Coach Waqar Yonus lead PCB think over his selection on Ireland series. The honor of captaincy was taken from Shahid and given to Misba ul Haq and not only this but his presence in the team for next tour also became doubtful. In another conversation with Shahid Afridi he said “I had no intentions to target any individual or violating the code of conducts and my statements were the general comments on the team performance and management”. Well we ask Shahid that if his general comments let PCB think over his presence in the team then he should avoid giving such remarks.
Conflicts, clashes and disagreements are always part of teams but they should resolve in such a way that they have no impact on performance. We wish Pakistani team a good time in Ireland tour and return with pride and pleasure.
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At last! Someone who understands! Thanks for potisng!