Karachi : Pakistan’s limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi and team coach Waqar Younis are on a collision course after developing serious differences during the recently-concluded One-day International (ODI) series against the West Indies.
Afridi is irked that Waqar wants to be the one calling all the shots, said a source.
Last week, Afridi’s relations with Waqar almost reached the breaking point, when the coach insisted that he would pick the playing eleven.
Afridi even mulled over the option of missing the last two ODIs, but was later convinced by other team officials to carry on.
The ODI captain is so extremely displeased with the way Waqar is running the team’s affairs that he is planning to meet Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt to inform him about his grievances against the coach.Sources close to Afridi revealed that the skipper, who is returning home from the Caribbean on Sunday, is ‘considering his options’, and will take a final decision after meeting with Butt in Lahore sometime this week.
“Once he is back home, Afridi will seek a meeting with Ijaz Butt, and inform him about the problems he is having with the coach,” The News quoted a source, as saying.
According to sources, Waqar is also at loggerheads with Pakistan’s chief selector, Mohsin Khan.
Mohsin has been hinting that Waqar overrules the squads picked by the national selection committee, and he even threatened to resign after the PCB overruled his recommendations while announcing Pakistan’s 15-man Test squad for this month’s series against the West Indies. ANI
