Selectors have picked a bunch of T20 players for Tests, says Asif

LAHORE: Tainted quick bowler Mohammad Asif on Friday said the national choice board of trustees has sent an a group of T20 players to Ireland and England to play Test coordinates and have demonstrated twofold norms by overlooking the best entertainers at the household level in picking the squad.

Conversing with journalists at a neighborhood cricket ground here, Asif said the national group, which will play a coincidental Test against Ireland and two Tests against England amid May-June, was not mirroring the genuine quality of a Test group and looked more like a pack of T20 players.

"A few individuals from the visiting side have no understanding of Test cricket but they have been chosen for the exceptionally critical voyage through UK and Ireland, for reasons best known to the selectors," said Asif.

It mama be specified here that Asif, alongside other polluted cricketer Salman Butt, is speaking to Wapda in residential cricket and both have assumed essential parts in their group's including in the consecutive finals of the Quaid-I-Azam Trophy.

The slender pacer included that the selectors must keep the main entertainers in locate while choosing the national group and wellness level ought to likewise be a fundamental criteria in thinking about any player. "Yet, sadly, these criteria were not considered in determination of a few players this time," he bemoaned.

Asif additionally said that skipper Sarfraz Ahmad needed to lead from the front in all the extreme circumstances yet tragically his execution with both bat and gloves was not very noteworthy as of late. "By what method would he be able to [Sarfraz] at that point spur different players if his own execution is less than impressive," he contended.

Both Asif and Salman, notwithstanding having served their separate bans from the ICC for their inclusion in a dreadful spot-settling trick in England in 2010 and playing dynamic household cricket for as far back as three years, have continually been scorned by the national selectors.

Nonetheless, Mohammad Amir, the third corrupted cricketer who was additionally restricted for a long time, has effectively arranged a rebound into the group since 2016.