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Re: 2019 Cricket World Cup - Discussion & Analysis
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Raja_MBZ
on 22/05/2019, 17:43:58 UTC
Raja Bhai,  Pakistan's squad changed for World cup, is there any politics going around it or its just based on recent performance?

Update on Pakistan's World Cup Squad

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Pakistan have sprung a surprise by bringing back pacers Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz to the ODI fold for the World Cup as they announced their final 15-man squad on Monday (May 20). Both Amir and Wahab did not initially feature in the provisional squad. Apart from the two seamers, batsman Asif Ali has also been included on expected lines in order to provide firepower in the middle order. Abid Ali, Junaid Khan and Faheem Ashraf, who were named in the initial squad, will make way for the trio.

Well, Mohammad Amir's selection was well expected even before the England series, as Pakistan's bowling attack is vividly useless without him. However, the whole series (Eng vs. Pak) proved that the whole bowling line-up of Pakistani team is lacking experience as well (for example, not bowling the yorkers when they were extremely needed during the ODI series) and some change(s), along with inclusion of Mohammad Amir, were immediately required within the World Cup squad. IMHO, the PCB took the right decision by including these two in the squad, it was very much required.

However, apparently, Junaid Khan isn't very happy with the decision:

Pakistan’s Junaid Khan protests World Cup squad snub with ‘sach karwa hota hai’ tweet

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket-world-cup/junaid-khan-protests-world-cup-squad-snub-with-sach-karwa-hota-hai-tweet-5739131/



P.S. This tweet was deleted after a couple of days.