How do you rate Inzamam-ul-Haq as Chief Selector?

[Titan24]

Selecting Bilal Asif over the likes of Zafar Gohar, Asghar, Kashif Bhatti, Irfan the leggy etc is a big question mark and sticking with him throughout is a bigger question mark.

Making Hafeez to come back as an opener at 38 years of age in tests is also something to be answered.

 

[ILcricket]

Just for pushing his nephew in along with Hafeez , i would rate him as high as i rate captaincy of Sarfaraz which pretty low .

 

[aukhan]

Worse than his predecessor Haroon Rasheed.

Imam's selection exposed him infront of everyone. No player named in Justice Qayum report could ever do any good for Pakistan. His fellow mates Waqar and Moin were exposed earlier during their tenure with the team and now its his time to get exposed.

Inzi destroyed our team in 2009 as well with oath taking ceremony. He along with his mates should never be part of PCB.

 

[JaanZeb]

Chief Selector Inzamam needs a review from PCB chairman if Pakistan batting is to be saved.

Chief selector Inzamam ul Haq tenure is now around 3 years. As a chief selector, his batting selections have been around a few pool of players, who have been tried and tested. And most of them are in the opener slot.

The players he has been selecting consistently without performances:

Ahmed Shehzad
Hafeez
Babar Azam
Imam ul Haq
Sami Aslam
Umar Amin

Players never selected [due to coach Arthur] but supported by Inzamam to return

Salman Butt
Kamran Akmal
Umar Akmal


Inzamam has selected batting alternatives but all of them in the middle order where the seniors dominate and rarely dropped

Asif Zakir
Usman Salahuddin
Saad Ali

Only Usman was able to play at Leeds this year, Asif, Saad and many others never given chance to play. Apart from PSL, domestic performers and tournaments have been shamelessly ignored by the selection committee in the last 2 years.

His tenure should be studied and it'll prove itself he has done open favoritism and messed with keeping underperforming players in opening slot to benefit his friends and family. His ignorance of the domestic league current performers is another pressing issue. Saad Ali was select4d for a performaance in QA trophy of last year whereas this year performers are completely ignored.
Inzamam's role as chief selector needs a review.

Chairman Ehsan Mani should look into his performance as a selector. Important decisions are needed if Pakistan batting is to be saved.

 

[Shaka81]

He's literally getting worse and worse with every new squad announcement. He's picking the wrong players or picking them for the wrong format.

 

[Zaz]

He needs replacing tbh Its a diabolical squad batting selection for sth africa and his decisions seem to be getting worse by the series

 

[JaanZeb]

With the South Africa tour selections shows Inzamam is beyond rehab and emboldened. Have never seen a chief selector benefiting from Team series loss and picking the same squad again. PCB and Chairman Ehsan Mani needs to act, he has failed terribly in correcting the board and now his presence is pushing the team down also. Inzamam should've been under review few months back, now he is uncontrollable.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pathetic as a selector, the fact he cant selected players for right formats and also selects family member and others that have connections in PCB shows what a rubbish job hes doing.

 

[jadaja]

^^^Selector can't create players, he can only select from what is available.I am seeing ridiculous expectations from selector.

How is he doing rubbish job.

 

[Madplayer]

Inzi's career as a selector:

-Started off well with inclusion of youngsters like Fakhar, Shadab, Faheem, Shaheen, Hussain Talat etc. This seems to be a fluke now.

-Progressively got worse with selections like Hafeez, retention of Imam again and again, dropping and baseless selection of Amir, Not taking a hard look at Asad Shafiq's place in the side, not selecting spinners on merit for UAE tests or even Asia cup, not selecting test batsmen on merit from domestic.

Like someone mentioned, he is getting worse with every next squad that he selects.

 

[DRsohail]

Rubbish.

 

[JaanZeb]

Inzi's career as a selector:

-Started off well with inclusion of youngsters like Fakhar, Shadab, Faheem, Shaheen, Hussain Talat etc. This seems to be a fluke now.

-Progressively got worse with selections like Hafeez, retention of Imam again and again, dropping and baseless selection of Amir, Not taking a hard look at Asad Shafiq's place in the side, not selecting spinners on merit for UAE tests or even Asia cup, not selecting test batsmen on merit from domestic.

Like someone mentioned, he is getting worse with every next squad that he selects.

Inzamam did'nt select these players, it was a PCB [Najam Sethi] decision to give chance to PSL performers. Sharjeel Khan was also selected by the previous selection cmmtte. before Inzamam.

This years PSL will show that as Sethi has left.
Inzamam is being allowed complete freedom by PCB chairman to pick and choose his nephew, neighbour, servant, without any sort of review.

There is social media campaign going on right now to request PM Imran Khan to check on Chairman Ehsan Mani who has disappointed with his go slow policy and emboldening corrupt people like Inzamam in the board.

 

[jadaja]

Inzamam did'nt select these players, it was a PCB [Najam Sethi] decision to give chance to PSL performers. Sharjeel Khan was also selected by the previous selection cmmtte. before Inzamam.

This years PSL will show that as Sethi has left.
Inzamam is being allowed complete freedom by PCB chairman to pick and choose his nephew, neighbour, servant, without any sort of review.

There is social media campaign going on right now to request PM Imran Khan to check on Chairman Ehsan Mani who has disappointed with his go slow policy and emboldening corrupt people like Inzamam in the board.

which players who were better were not selected???

 

[JaanZeb]

which players who were better were not selected???

In last 2 years many players and tournaments have been ignored. And even if Inzamam selects that very player there is a year or 10 months gap between their good batting performances and them.

He has ignored many in the QA trophy, One Day Cup, Natl. T20 from 2016 till now.

His major ignorance has been for the opening positions, reasons of which are well known.

Recently its Abid Ali, he alongwith Fakhar Zaman and Awais Zia averages 40+ in domestics. And Abid has not only done well in first class. He has done well consistently against similar NZ A side, England and Australia A.

 

[Zeeraq]

It's much easier to judge a selector by his A team selections and so far he has failed miserably, no vision whatsoever!

 

[jadaja]

In last 2 years many players and tournaments have been ignored. And even if Inzamam selects that very player there is a year or 10 months gap between their good batting performances and them.

He has ignored many in the QA trophy, One Day Cup, Natl. T20 from 2016 till now.

His major ignorance has been for the opening positions, reasons of which are well known.

Recently its Abid Ali, he alongwith Fakhar Zaman and Awais Zia averages 40+ in domestics. And Abid has not only done well in first class. He has done well consistently against similar NZ A side, England and Australia A.

He can select only 16, so who has to be selected and who needs to be dropped from 16.

 

[JaanZeb]

He can select only 16, so who has to be selected and who needs to be dropped from 16.

Rofl here are more than 16 a complete baraat of officials . Sometimes even 18 and 22 when PCB chairman was Shaheryar Khan.

The issue is rather the first XI, and the consistently failing batting lineup.

 

[Madplayer]

In last 2 years many players and tournaments have been ignored. And even if Inzamam selects that very player there is a year or 10 months gap between their good batting performances and them.

He has ignored many in the QA trophy, One Day Cup, Natl. T20 from 2016 till now.

His major ignorance has been for the opening positions, reasons of which are well known.

Recently its Abid Ali, he alongwith Fakhar Zaman and Awais Zia averages 40+ in domestics. And Abid has not only done well in first class. He has done well consistently against similar NZ A side, England and Australia A.

Awais Zia? You want a player worse than Imam in the side?

 

[jadaja]

Rofl here are more than 16 a complete baraat of officials . Sometimes even 18 and 22 when PCB chairman was Shaheryar Khan.

The issue is rather the first XI, and the consistently failing batting lineup.

How is Inzi responsible for baraat of officials. Cach and captain have more input on playing XI than selector.

It is easy to blame but if you were Inzi who would select in 16.

 

[JaanZeb]

Awais Zia? You want a player worse than Imam in the side?

Awais Zia averages around 40 as opener in last 3-4 years.

 

[Greenstorm]

On the issue of Imam. I think had Inzi dropped Imam for SA tour, still we would have been after him that he saved Imam from certain embarrassment in SA.

Even though it is very painful to keep losing like we are but I think that these loses will help us to get rid of dead wood from our team until world cup. Hafeez has already retired from one format and one of Imam, Hafeez and Malik will be dropped after SA tour from LOIs. 5 ODIs in England before WC will help us further to drop non performing seniors. But can Sarfaraz retain captaincy until than.

 

[Hasan123]

Time for his to end. NZ selected a specialist spinner for the decider and look at the result.

 

[New Yorker]

The breathtaking cynicism of his selection for the SAF series is to me the nail in the coffin. After repeated middle order and top order collapses he drops the only middle batsman we had on the bench and does not provide a replacement. Why? Because if there were even one competent additional middle order option available the coach and captain could opt to open with Azhar and Fakhar and drop the non performing Uncle's Dream. But the most important thing in the world here is clearly that the ul Haq's should be made comfortable. Breathtakingly bad faith by Chacha in Chief.

 

[Ilustcricket]

The breathtaking cynicism of his selection for the SAF series is to me the nail in the coffin. After repeated middle order and top order collapses he drops the only middle batsman we had on the bench and does not provide a replacement. Why? Because if there were even one competent additional middle order option available the coach and captain could opt to open with Azhar and Fakhar and drop the non performing Uncle's Dream. But the most important thing in the world here is clearly that the ul Haq's should be made comfortable. Breathtakingly bad faith by Chacha in Chief.

100% agree with this! Had saad and usman been in the squad, it would be an obvious choice to play Azhar and Fakhar as openers with either of Saad or Usman slotting in the middle order.

But Inzi has dug his nephew’s grave himself. We all know Imam will fail miserably in SA and then Inzi won’t have any excuses to select him.

My prediction is that Imam will fail badly in first game, then Shaan will open with Fakhar in the next game and Shaan should be playing ODIs rather than tests. Shaan will also fail miserably and I hope that finally these useless openers will go away. Next series, Inzi might not have an option but to bring back Saad/Usman and we may finally have a better batting side in-shaa-Allah.

 

[Abdullah719]

Thank you for not selecting a middle-order backup batsman

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Thank you for not selecting a middle-order backup batsman

Rizwan was selected as a Dual option ie backup wicket keeper batsman and back up middle order option. That was a mistake. Should have been picked as a backup keeper only option.

No matter how many runs Rizwan has scored in UAE for Pakistan A but his technique is not suited for Test Cricket as a batsman alone especially outside Asia.


Instead of picking Imam, Shan & Fakhar we should have picked 2 out of these 3.


Saad Ali or Saud Shakeel should have been picked.


Azhar should have opened with Fakhar or Shan and in case of injury to middle order batsman Saad/Saud should have replaced the injured fellow.



I knew SA grounds will test our players fitness and Haris was my biggest concern. Azhar has had knee issue in past aswell he could struggle too (I hope not)



[MENTION=9]Saj[/MENTION] any idea if PCB got visa for Saad or Saud ? or Salahuddin ?