Misbah talks about why he resigned
"The scenario was different than the normal way of selecting teams, as in this case I was in the West Indies (due to testing positive for COVID-19) and it appears that everybody has changed their minds, and who knows what planning is happening and suddenly a team is announced"
Then asked if this was the reason he resigned?
"Look, there are somethings that you don't need to say, and this is something Waqar Younis has also said that do you not think that Waqar and I who have worked with the side for the past 2 years have any say in this? Or do people on the outside have more knowledge?
"We, who have served Pakistan for so long and captained the side for 7 years, will suddenly start thinking of ourselves (and resign)?"
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Speaking about Fakhar Zaman:
"To not keep Fakhar Zaman in the initial squad was something I could not understand, because Fakhar played really well in South Africa at number 3. In England, because of Sohaib Maqsood and with an eye towards the T20 World Cup, we moved him to the 5-6 position as we weren't getting much contribution"
"We told him to try this out but mainly we saw him playing for us at the number 3 position. What then happened when he came back to Pakistan was what we all saw - I was feeling so bad about that this guy has performed well in 3-4 games and we moved him down the order and suddenly he is out of the squad, and all this after he had performed well at the number 3 position"
"The scenario was different than the normal way of selecting teams, as in this case I was in the West Indies (due to testing positive for COVID-19) and it appears that everybody has changed their minds, and who knows what planning is happening and suddenly a team is announced"
Then asked if this was the reason he resigned?
"Look, there are somethings that you don't need to say, and this is something Waqar Younis has also said that do you not think that Waqar and I who have worked with the side for the past 2 years have any say in this? Or do people on the outside have more knowledge?
"We, who have served Pakistan for so long and captained the side for 7 years, will suddenly start thinking of ourselves (and resign)?"
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Speaking about Fakhar Zaman:
"To not keep Fakhar Zaman in the initial squad was something I could not understand, because Fakhar played really well in South Africa at number 3. In England, because of Sohaib Maqsood and with an eye towards the T20 World Cup, we moved him to the 5-6 position as we weren't getting much contribution"
"We told him to try this out but mainly we saw him playing for us at the number 3 position. What then happened when he came back to Pakistan was what we all saw - I was feeling so bad about that this guy has performed well in 3-4 games and we moved him down the order and suddenly he is out of the squad, and all this after he had performed well at the number 3 position"
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