{"id":82505,"date":"2024-05-26T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=82505"},"modified":"2024-05-26T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T22:17:20","slug":"pcb-decides-against-appointing-vice-captain-for-pakistan-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2024\/82505\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB decides against appointing vice-captain for Pakistan team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KARACHI (National Times) The Pakistan Cricket Board&#8217;s (PCB) selection committee decided not to appoint any vice-captain for the national side just a day after pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi turned the down offer of the post.<br>The development came after Shaheen expressed disinterest in taking up the role of the vice-captain.<br>\u201cDuring Friday\u2019s selection committee meeting, discussions on vice-captaincy took place. However, it was unanimously decided not to appoint anyone,\u201d said the PCB statement.<br>\u201cAs such no offer was made to anyone,\u201d the statement added.<br>A day earlier, multiple sources claimed that selectors had approached Shaheen, asking if he would be interested in the role of vice-captain. However, the discussion couldn\u2019t proceed further after the pacer expressed no interest.<br>Sources close to Shaheen confirmed that the selection committee had offered the pacer to become the team&#8217;s vice-captain and skipper Babar Azam&#8217;s second-in-command, which he refused to accept.<br>The development came after the board, in March, reinstated Babar as the white-ball captain, replacing Shaheen, after the newly formed selection committee&#8217;s recommendation to change the skipper.<br>Under Zaka Ashraf, the cricket body had appointed the fast-bowler as the white-ball captain following the team&#8217;s drubbing in the ICC World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI (National Times) The Pakistan Cricket Board&#8217;s (PCB) selection committee decided not to appoint any vice-captain for the national side just a day after pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi turned the down offer of the post.The development came after Shaheen expressed disinterest in taking up the role of the vice-captain.\u201cDuring Friday\u2019s selection committee meeting, discussions on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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