LAHORE: Pakistan ?A? cricket team left here on Sunday for Dubai to play one-day and T20 matches against England Lions.

Coach Ijaz Ahmed expressed hope that the youn players would perform well on the tour.

Ijaz said that Wasim Akram would be a suitable selection for coaching the national team.

The Pakistan ?A? team consists of five officials and 16 players.

The team, being led by Mohammad Hafeez, will play three Twenty20 and three one-day matches against England Lions in Dubai.

T20 matches will be played from February 12 while one-dayers will be held from February 22.

The team coach said that the players worked hard and he expects positive results on the tour.

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LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team coach Intikhab Alam said that he would submit his report in two days on team?s poor performance and Shahid Afridi?s ball-tampering incident.

He arrived in Karachi and from there to Lahore through connecting flight with assistant coach Aaqib Javed, Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Asif and Sohail Tanveer.

Intikhab Alam said that this is not the time to criticize as the team was beaten by the best team of the world.

He said Pakistan?s fielding has always been poor and besides fielding, batting also needs special attention.

The coach said that ball-tampering is being done all over the world but what Shahid Afridi did was absolutely wrong.

On this occasion, Kamran Akmal was also approached but he and other national heroes avoided to save themselves and did not respond to any question.

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LAHORE: Pakistan ?A? cricket team left here on Sunday for Dubai to play one-day and T20 matches against England Lions.

Coach Ijaz Ahmed expressed hope that the youn players would perform well on the tour.

Ijaz said that Wasim Akram would be a suitable selection for coaching the national team.

The Pakistan ?A? team consists of five officials and 16 players.

The team, being led by Mohammad Hafeez, will play three Twenty20 and three one-day matches against England Lions in Dubai.

T20 matches will be played from February 12 while one-dayers will be held from February 22.

The team coach said that the players worked hard and he expects positive results on the tour.

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KARACHI: A short judgment has been made following the humiliating defeat of Pakistan cricket team against Australia.

The decision was made after a hearing that went on for 5 hours at stretch. It says: the players power be eliminated; a board representing all the four provinces be set up; Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) be privatized; new constitution be formulated; the overall structure of the Board be improved; divisional cricket be promoted and; the president should not appoint the chairman.

Former skipper Pakistan cricket team, Imran Khan said the President should not be the head of the Board and that the Parliament should not interfere in the matters of cricket.

Director General of PCB, Javed Miandad said talented players are coming forward because of departmental cricket. Therefore, he said, the departments be encouraged to participate in sports.

He said the skills of the players are not being properly made us of.

Former chairman PCB Tauqir Zia said junior players are put behind and forgotten, terming it a major reason for the problem. ?This shatters the passion of the players,? he argued.

Former captain Amir Sohail said players, officials, institutions ? all of them ? are responsible for the destruction of cricket. Only passion is not going to turn things around, as the players also have to run their houses, he added.

He said the Board had so much money that it could give the players hundreds of thousands rupees, but, unfortunately, it did not happen.

Former skipper of Pakistan cricket team, Rashid Latif described match-fixing as another major reason for the current state of affairs of the Pakistan?s cricket. The players involved in match-fixing were rewarded, he said.

He said it is the Presidency that is responsible for the miserable condition of cricket.

Former chairman PCB, Khalid Mehmood said the players used to play with passion in the past but now they only play for money.

Also stating their views during the hearing were former cricketers Mushtaq Ahmed, Azhar Mahmood, Saleem Yousuf, former chairman PCB Khalid Mahmood, members PCB governing body Dr Mohammad Ali Shah and Shakeel Shaikh, chairman National Assembly?s standing committee Jamshed Dasti, senator Anwar Baig, former manager Pakistan cricket team Azhar Zaidi, commentator Munir Hussain, senior sports journalists Abdul Majid Bhatti and Abdul Waheed Khan.

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