Former captain Wasim Akram has suggested that the Pakistan Cricket Board should appoint the younger people rather than the “oldies” on national selection committee to raise standard of working.

The comment came two days after Pakistan cricket plunged into fresh crisis with chief selector Abdul Qadir resigning in mysterious circumstances.

Akram, currently in England where the World Twenty20 Championship is on, told the Pakistani media that the PCB should appoint such cricketers on the selection committee who were in their thirties and forties.

“You need such people who have played cricket in the modern era. People who know the cricketers playing on the domestic circuit and the international opposition,” said Wasim who has played 104 Test matches.

Akram said the board should avoid appointing “oldies” to key positions or on the selection committee as they were not in sync with the requirements of the contemporary cricket.

“We should have younger people on the selection committee as they would be able to fulfill their duties better,” he said.

Incidentally the present set-up in the board has faced plenty of criticism over the presence of a large number of “oldies” in the establishment. PCB chairman Ejaz Butt himself is in his seventies just like Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed, while national team coach Intikhab Alam is also in his sixties.

Qadir who resigned as chief selector two days ago is in his fifties. The two other members of the selection committee - Shoaib Mohammad and Saleem Jaffer - has played cricket in the 80s and 90s.

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