Star batsman Babar Azam, fast bowler Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah have been dropped from the Pakistan Test team. All three were not selected for the second and third Tests against England. The Pakistan Cricket Board said in a statement that the decision to rest the key players has been taken keeping in mind the current form and fitness of the key players. Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali is furious over the dropping of three star players including Babar.
Actually, Basit Ali said on his YouTube channel that Babar, Shaheen and Naseem are not in the team announced by the selection committee. The committee said that these players have been given rest. This is a very good phrase. If you had said drop instead of rest then the phrase would be wrong. There is excess. This is rape with cricket, if the phrase ‘drop’ is used. These were and will remain our heroes. Performance keeps going up and down. The reconstituted selection committee of PCB has selected the Pakistan team for the remaining matches of the England series. Former cricketers Aaqib Javed, Azhar Ali and Aleem Dar are the new members in the committee.
Basit believes that the three big players have been dropped just to show their dominance. He said that the three big names who have been dropped are all hooligans. They want to show that we who have come will do completely different things. But it is not that all these players will be in the South Africa series. South Africa will need big-hearted players. Basit has strongly criticized Pakistan Test team captain Shan Masood.
