Philosophy and Criteria for Selection of Pakistani Team..!

Players selected for a national team are beyond the ordinary, or should be beyond the ordinary.

If there is no change in the attitude of the players, however; if there is no change in the selection process; if there is no change in the personality and quality of coaches to get the players to listen to them and to try and follow their instructions; and if there is no change in the quality of players coming out of the domestic competitions, the result will be the same – probably even worse.
In the modern day game of cricket the captain, coach and the chief selector are the three main pillars, absolutely responsible for the performance of the team.
Now, we are also seeing the evolution of the fourth pillar i.e., the mentor of the team, generally called as the Team Director.
These four pillars must not select the team before they have chalked out the strategy of the matches to be played with their players.
All planning must have a clear objective and should be obviously based on the playing conditions to be faced by the team.
After the strategy the selection process should be based on the following principles:
– Select horses for courses.
– Be ruthless in team selection with emotions getting no place in the realm of the national prestige.
– Remove any iota of likes/dislikes and strictly adhere to the merit policy, not entertaining any undeserving recommendations, from any level.
– No physically unfit player should be selected at any cost.
– No player should be selected if he is not fitting in the mould of the earlier formulated strategy.
Having explained above the philosophy and criteria for the selection of national team, the following players are recommended to be considered for the Pakistani Squad of T20 series of three matches, to be played against the West Indian in Karachi, during the first week of April, 2018.
1. Sarfraz Ahmad (Captain and Wicket Keeper.)
2. Fakhar Zaman (Established opening batsman.)
3. Sahibzada Farhan (Possesses all the potential and promise of an opening batsman.)
4. Agha Salman (Potentially a world class batsman in the making.)
5. Baber Azam (Has already cemented his position in the team for all the three formats.)
6. Asif Ali (He should have been in the national team just after PSL-2.)
7. Hussain Talat (A good find of the PSL-3.)
8. Faheem Ashraf (This player has all the ingredients to become best all rounder of the world.)
9. Muhammad Nawaz (A classy Spinner and an asset for any team.)
10. Shadab Khan (Undisputedly world class priceless asset for any team. Top gun.)
11. Shaheen Shah Afridi (Fast bowling talent is oozing out of this player.)
12. Irfan Junior (An extremely promising fast bowling prospect for Pakistan.)
13. Hasan Ali (Already a established world class cricketer. However, recently it has been observed that he has started behaving rudely in the field, as if he thinks he was above the game and not ready to accept the decisions of his captain. May be he should be told and rested to teach that no player was indispensable.)
14. Aamir Yaamin (A very deserving all rounder and much better fielder than Rahat Ali who let Pakistan down during the ODI World Cup in Australia. These days no poor fielder has any place in national team.)
15. Usman Khan Shinwari (Muhammad Aamir needs some rest and UKS must be granted an opportunity considering his superb fast bowling abilities).
It is high time that thinking strategically, Shoaib Malik, Ahmad Shahzad, Rahat Ali, Muhammad Hafeez, Umer Akmal and Kamran Akmal need not block, our highly talented world class youngsters, to serve Pakistani cricket at the world arena in the next five to eight years.

Chairman PCB and his selectors must not be afraid to repose trust in the young generation players named above.