Inzamam questions selection for SA tour

Former Pakistan captain, Inzamam ul Haq has questioned the selection of Pakistan cricket team for the tour of South Africa and said in his opinion the team was not selected in consultation with both the test and one day captains.
“I think the combination of the team is not balanced, especially we lack in bowling as we are short of one fast bowler in the challenging tour of South Africa,” he told reporters here on Thursday. He said in his opinion both the captains were not consultants in the team selection .
Inzamam pointed out that Pak team toured India with five fast bowlers and the team selected for the tour of South Africa has four pace bowlers in Umer Gul, Ahsan Adil, Junaid Khan and Umer Gul.
“South Afrcian tour is long tour in which the team will be playing three test , five one day and two T-20 games and I believe there should have been one more bowler to add fire in our pace battery.”
He said pace bowler play a leading role to lift the performance level of a team during the tour of South Africa where wickets favour fast bowlers.
The former captain expressed his desire to serve the team as a batting consultant saying his services are available for bringing improvement in the batting. “ I could not accompany the team during the tour of India as a batting consultant as I was having a contract with a private TV channel,” he said.
He further added: “The Chairman PCB Mohammad Zaka Asrhaf before the tour of India asked me to accompany the team to India and South Africa but after the return of the team from India no one from PCB contacted me in this regard.” To a question, he said, he had no issue of money or on any other point with the PCB to serve the team as a batting consultant.
“If they ask me to accompany the team I will do so because I want to see improvement in our batting line.”
“I have no difference with any one (not any one in PCB nor with the team management).”
Inzmam said victory and defeat go hand in hand and in case of defeat the team should not be feeling disappointed because such a feeling will restrict them from making a come back.
The former captain termed the statement of Federation of international cricket players association regarding Pakistan Super League “surprising”.
“It is the moral obligation of the all the cricketers (Pakistani) to join hands for making PSL a successful event by extending all out cooperation,” he said.