ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Former Test fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz on Wednesday criticised poor selection for the upcoming triangular one-day series Down Under and called for the ouster of Inzamamul Haq from the Australia tour.

"We must look forward to 2007 World Cup in the West Indies and prepare Yousuf Youhana as skipper and Salman Butt as his deputy," Sarfraz said in comments after Pakistan's Test series whitewash by Australia.

"I liken the clean-sweep of the Test series by Australia to Pakistan's disastrous performance in the 2003 World Cup in Southern Africa and Australia's demoralising defeat of Pakistan in the Test series at the neutral ground of Sharjah in 2002," he said.

"This time too, non-technical people are at the helm of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the form of Advisory Council who had scant knowledge of the game," said the man credited with inventing the reverse swing.

He criticised the decision to send six all-rounders to Australia for the triangular series, also involving West Indies. "They have no vision how to select a team," he said, pointing out that opener Taufeeq Umar was suited to Test cricket but had been named for the One-dayers.

"You can rarely see six All-Rounders competing in a one-day tournament," he said. The six are Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood, Rana Naveedul Hassan and Muhammad Hafeez.

"The most necessary thing to do is to call back Inzamamul Haq who had sat out the last two Tests and as such is short of practice and even not fully fit". "One should be 100 percent physically fit for a rigorous tour like Australia's and Inzamam can hardly regain fitness at age 34," he said.

"Inzamam should better make way for Asim Kamal otherwise the team will suffer." Sarfraz said PCB officials and coach had vowed to improve the team's performance after every defeat. "Now that they have disappointed the whole country, they owe an explanation to the nation." Foreign coaches, he said, had taken Pakistan cricket to nowhere. "We had a foreign coach in 2003 World Cup and now too but both failed to deliver." -APP

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