Karachi, January 31: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt today ruled out a complete overhaul of the team after their disastrous tour of Australia but said a younger skipper will replace Mohammad Yousuf.
“Ideally, a younger player could have been chosen to lead Pakistan, but Australia is not the place to experiment. So, the choice fell on the senior-most player Mohammad Yousuf. Now we would like to hand over the reins to a younger captain who can lead the side for a longer period,” Butt told a television channel.
Butt said the board had appointed Younus Khan as captain last year with a view to have him in this position for a long time.
“Unfortunately, the National Assembly standing committee on sports made allegations against him and this caused him great distress and he decided to not play for a while upsetting our plans,” he said.
–Agencies