LAHORE, June 20: Former Pakistan chief selector and ex-head coach Mohsin Khan has expressed his displeasure over the pathetic performance of the national team in Sri Lanka where the tourists lost the ODI series 3-1.

“I’m really disappointed with the poor performance of the national team and after seeing that confidence of captain Misbah-ul-Haq and of individual players has totally been disturbed in the one-day series and it is quite visible that a fast-emerging strong team is in disarray because some people with vested interests in the cricket board are misguiding the PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf,” Mohsin told Dawn on Wednesday.

“When I headed the selection committee, we had prepared a strong combination of players despite the fact the Pakistan was passing through a difficult period after several players were banned,” he said.

“The same combination played the semi-final of the 2011 World Cup and after that the team was on a winning track.”

Mohsin emphasised that Pakistan had started flourishing under team coach Waqar Younis  “Under Waqar, the team did exceptionally well and when I was assigned the job by ex-PCB chairman Ijaz Butt [after Waqar quit], we carried on the winning streak as we beat Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in all three formats and then that team stunned everyone by whitewashing world No 1 England in the three-Test series,” Mohsin said.

“The main reasons of the team’s success were that it played with motivation, dedication, unity and a spirit of nationalism. The reason I am disappointed now is that despite the fact it is almost the same team, where have the unity, motivation and dedication gone?”

But when asked that after the clean sweep in the Test series, England won the ODI series 4-0 in the UAE, Mohsin defended: “There was something suspicious which I didn’t want to comment on because the previous series [in 2010] between these teams in England was marred by controversies and I wanted to make sure there was no controversy this time around.”