PCB boss becomes selector

Published November 29, 2001

LAHORE, Nov 28: Apart from being the head of the Pakistan cricket Board,Lt General,Tauqir Zia, is also performing the duties as a selector in the presence of paid selectors.

The PCB boss has added names of 13 budding players in the list to attend a training camp for the build up of home series against West Indies early next year.

Selectors furnished a list of 26 players for the camp and the chairman PCB noticed that names of a number of talented cricketers who have performed outstandingly in the domestic season were missing.

PCB Boss admitted the slackness of selectors and said he himself included those missing players in the list of the probables which will be announced soon. The camp will commence at Lahore from December first.

“We will give equal opportunity to all those players who have shown in the domestic season and that is the reason i have decided to increase the number of players for the camp”, he said.

He said it was the need of the time to groom the lot of youngsters to build a sound future of the Pakistan cricket.

“We have to create opportunities for them to attend high profile training camps in order to gain necessary experience”, he said.—APP

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