Date:13/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/13/stories/2008041355341600.htm

Sport - Cricket

PCB’s directive to selectors

Karachi: Embarrassed by the open tussle between the team management and selectors during the India tour last year, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided that no selector would travel with the squad abroad.

A source in the Board said that after the fiasco resulting from the dispute between chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed and the team management comprising coach Geoff Lawson and captain Shoaib Malik in India over the replacement players, PCB had decided against sending selectors on foreign tours with the team.

“Till the recent past, the board policy was to send one selector on a foreign tour and he used to give his inputs at team meetings on selection of players. But now the policy has been changed,” the source confirmed. — PTI