Islamabad, Mar 4: Senior selection committee member Aleem Dar has tendered his resignation to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the wake of the national team’s poor show in the T20 World Cup, according to sources.
“Former ICC elite panel umpire Dar has sent his resignation which is yet to be accepted,” a well-informed source close ot the PCB said on Tuesday.Dar and former Test players Asad Shafiq and Aaqib Javed are the members of the selection committee.
A source close to Dar said that he resigned because he was not happy with the undue authority given to the team’s head coach Mike Hesson in selection matters.“Aleem is very upset that when the World Cup squad was being selected he had resisted the inclusion of Babar Azam and Shadab Khan in the squad without any performance but Hesson insisted on having them,” the source said.
He said Dar was surprised to see that neither captain Salman Agha nor the other selectors resisted Hesson’s authority.“Aleem had also insisted that when Babar and Shadab could be called in without performance, Muhammad Rizwan should be included in place of Usman Khan because of his experience but no one supported him.” The performance of the players, according to the sources, has not only upset the PCB but also influential figures in the government.