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Wasim Akram joins 'Australia disaster' inquiry committee

Monday, 08 Feb, 2010
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The committee is expected to meet later this week and submit its findings by the end February. -Photo by Reuters
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan allrounder Wasim Akram has been appointed to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s inquiry committee looking into the national team’s poor performance on its just completed tour of Australia.

 

Akram replaces ex test batsman and PCB director of cricket development Haroon Rasheed, who resigned from the inquiry committee last week, the PCB said in a statement Monday.

 

Chief operating officer Wasim Bari heads the committee which also includes cricket board’s director of operations Zakir Khan, former manager Yawar Saeed, legal adviser Tafazzul Rizvi and governing board member Wazir Ali Khoja.

 

The committee is expected to meet later this week and submit its findings by the end February.

 

Australia whitewashed Pakistan in both the test (3-0) and one-day series (5-0). Pakistan also lost the tour’s only Twenty20 international by two runs Friday.

 

'MUST MOVE ON'

 

“Pakistan cricket must move on after what happened in Australia,” Wasim told AFP.

 

“No one was expecting such disappointing results, especially in the one-day matches but we need to move on as we have no dearth of talent.”

 

He said Pakistan needed “one good captain for all three forms of the game... because we are getting not even one good captain.”He said it made no sense to talk of separate Test, one-day and Twenty20 captains, and suggested Shahid Afridi for the unified role.

 

“Afridi can lead the team in all three forms, he is a quality cricketer but needs to learn the rules of the game. I hope he has learnt his lessons after what happened in Perth,” he said, referring to a ball-tampering incident.

 

Afridi was banned for two Twenty20 matches after he was caught by television cameras biting the ball to change its condition, in violation of the rules.

 

Wasim said he also noticed “that the team lacked spirit, the will to win and aggression with their body language after Sydney defeat was very abysmal.

 

“We weren’t expecting such disappointing results because Australia is not as strong an outfit as it used to be, with lots of great players retired,” he said. “But I still think we need to put all that behind us.”

 



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