Karachi, January 24: Taken aback by the criticism that it has invited for stating that Muhammad Yousuf would be sacked as captain after the tour of Australia, the Pakistan Cricket Board now says the comments were taken out of context.
“The news is totally out of context and the PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt has been quoted wrongly in this regard,” the PCB media manager Nadeem Sarwar said.
Butt was quoted as saying on a local television channel by a wire service that there would be a change of captaincy after the Australian tour and Yousuf was only appointed until the Australian tour.
This has been criticised by former players, who described the timing as unusual and wrong since the team was still playing in Australia and was in the middle of a one-day series.
Yousuf has been subdued and diplomatic in his reaction to the reports.
–PTI