{"id":63102,"date":"2018-05-01T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63102"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T10:54:59","slug":"inzimam-defends-team-selection-amid-poor-performance-in-tour-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63102","title":{"rendered":"Inzimam defends team selection amid poor performance in Tour opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, May 1 (TNS): <\/strong>Pakistan Chief selector and former Pakistan batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq once again defended the team selection for Pakistan\u2019s Test tour of Ireland and England, and persisted that his decisions are for the betterment of the team in the long run<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media in Lahore, the former captain insisted that he has not ended anyone\u2019s career prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not ended anyone\u2019s future. We are only trying to do what\u2019s best for our team,\u201d he said, reiterating that the 16 best players were chosen for the England\/Ireland tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows English conditions are not easy [to play in]. That is why we sent the team there early so that they can adjust to the conditions [before the series starts].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am being criticised for expanding the pool of players. But I have been tasked with bringing forward new [and young] talent. We are giving chances to youngsters. They will make mistakes, but they will also learn,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were\u00a0dismissed for 168 in their four-day tour match against Kent at Canterbury. The uncapped Imam-ul-Haq who is also Inzamam\u2019s nephew, top scoring with 61. The 22-year old left-handed batsman earlier faced criticism for his selection ahead of the constantly ignored Fawad Alam, who was once again left out of the final 16 of the squad\u00a0selected for the tour, despite performing consistently well and better than some of the new selections in the domestic circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased whenever any batsman performs well\u00a0because we review performances of all players,\u201d said Inzamam, when asked about Imam\u2019s impressive batting display in seaming conditions against Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Inzamam refused to comment when asked about controversial fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who remains out of the team after getting convicted for spot-fixing eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, May 1 (TNS): Pakistan Chief selector and former Pakistan batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq once again defended the team selection for Pakistan\u2019s Test tour of Ireland and England, and persisted that his decisions are for the betterment of the team in the long run Speaking to media in Lahore, the former captain insisted that he has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63104,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63102\/revisions\/63104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}