Did Rizwan play for Pak permanently since 2017? He was not ready, he grinded and then came back as a better player in 2020, a poor player like Haris wants to play 2 innings for 20 runs and get a lifetime free ride
Bro the issue isn't merit and non merit. I'd agree with you for Haris IF PCB ACTUALLY HAD MERIT BASED SELECTIONS.
Haris did not merit a place over rizwan, Usman and Azam based of the psl, but when azam got injured, on what basis was hasebullah brought in? Hasebullah has been brought in solely due to balochi representation.
Afterwards, On what basis was babar given captaincy again? Did he win PSL? Or show that he had improved as a captain? What about Shan Masood? On what basis is a player who's been the worst test player for Pakistan in the past decade get captaincy?
Genuinely speaking, everyone knows this forumn talks about selections as if their on the PCB board and know what merit is based on?
Here are some of past decisons of this board since 2013
1) Randomly Umar Amin a debutant is made vice captain and is now considered a future captain even before making his debut?
2) Imran farhat is brought back and made an Opener of a Champions trophy? Why? Based of what?
3) Azhar Ali a dude who hasn't been in the Odi squad for 4 years is now made captain and is front opener for the next 2 years, Again credit to Azhar for performing against bamgaldesh and in CT, but what was the basis of captaincy? I can understand selection based of test form? What's the basis for captaincy?
4) Umar Akmal and Jamshed were frontline as keeper and opening batsmen over sarfraz in 2015 despite sarfi being the top scorer in both avg and Sr in the Australian odi series, Again what was the basis of Jamshed who in 6 games couldn't even get a double digit score, hold onto a catch and fitness wise resembled the shape of a baloon? It was dead clear based of domestic form he was finished and 2014 merited a drop?
5) Then afterwards, On what basis did shehzad get selected for the millionth time in the CT sqaud? He got rightfully dropped in 2016, Sami aslam came and outperformed him but then straight after, Shehzad gets chosen again? And sami gets dropped after one game?
6) Then in 2020, Imam gets to be t20 opener? Why? He was struggling to even get into the Psl? Shehzad and akmal are brought back? And again why? What psl miracles did they pull? Why did Muhammad irfan come back?
7) Rizwan got made t20 opener, Okay fair enough he has some good innings at opening and the experiment worked to an extent, Fine, But on what basis was he made opener in the first place? Based of a random domestic phase. He had been a failure in the middle order and the t20 side was ranked no 1, their was no basis of him being selected as an opener? People are acting as if he didn't get it randomly.
8) Tayyab Tahir gets called in the ODI squad based of his acc performance where he outperformed everyone including the likes of saim ayub, Farhan, Omair bin yousaf, Muhammad haris etc, But got dropped with zero notice? No games? Was literally dropped for warming the bench? And now he isn't even in kakul pool of 29? But hasebullah and Irfan niazi are?
9) On what basis were chacha and asif brought back? Asif was dropped and chacha was never frontline and was a nobody in psl? I can understand khusdil shah and haider ali cause even though they failed in international, they had amazing domestic performances so fair, But what did asif and chacha do? Infact what has chacha done since his inclusion? He has 4 notable innings in 4 years of his career?
10) Babar and Rizwan were laughing stocks in 2022, but why are they treated like Kings? At the very least they warranted a rest period due to poor performance and be reminded that they aren't > the law, performances matter, but their was no punishment given? While imad was dropped in 2021 fir nawaz? Again why? Why can 2 people have bad tournaments but that rule doesn't apply to Imad despite imad have a solid 2017 and 2019?
^^ I can go on and on but you get the point. The rules have never been consistent, PCB does not operate on who performs and who doesn't.
Even in other boards like Australia, Sure they didn't take mcfraser which I find wrong, but at the very least they've made it dead set clear that mcfraser will replace Warner in t20 after this and he will be full time. They don't want to take a risk on the eve of a cup, as I said it's a wrong decison but mcfraser is getting a respite afterwards.
Same with bcci treatment of sanju during 202r wc, now he's frontline over rahul
So why wasn't tayyab given this respite?
You guys need to stop acting like you're PCB and babar and rizwan are on merit lol. Theirs no such thing with this silly board.
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