Wasim Akram urges the Pakistan to be patient with the young squad

There has been a lot of questions raised against Azhar Ali as a captain after a series of a poor run in the 50-over format. He is currently leading Pakistan in the ODI series against England and has already lost the series 4-0.

The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan said in an interview to the daily Jang newspaper, “Yes we are thinking about it and we will sit down and discuss it before the team is announced for the West Indies series,” Khan said.

However, former Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram had a different perspective as he said that the young team needs to be given a bit more time. “They are young players and things will not change overnight, we have to be patient now,” he said on Geo channel.

Pakistan’s former allrounder Mudassar Nazar said that Pakistan was in dire straits in limited-overs cricket. “I have changed my mind after the recent results and I think we are in dire straits and we need to change the way we approach one-day cricket. I have already made changes to the NCA program because we need to have specialist players for ODI and T20 cricket,” Nazar told PTI.

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Official sources in the PCB told PTI that no one was happy with Azhar Ali’s leadership. “There is a move to ask him to step down himself and bring in Sarfaraz but there is also a worry that more time should first be given to Sarfaraz to gain some experience as T20 captain before giving him this responsibility to him and this would also give the board more time to assess Azhar’s performance as captain,” one source said.

However, everything will depend on the opinion of head coach Mickey Arthur and chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq. “Both of them are in total agreement that some players will have to be sidelined after the tour as they are not fit for modern day ODIs and new players need to be introduced,” he said.

Speaking about the Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq making his way back to the ODI squad, “What is clear is that it is a dire situation for Pakistan cricket and everyone is worried because we are at No. 9 in the ICC ODI rankings and if we also end up not winning against the West Indies in this format next month we would well be forced to play in the World Cup 2019 qualifiers and that would be a disaster,” the source said.