After a miserable 2015 World Cup, our newly appointed chief selector (Andy Moles) who then was our coach with national academy coach told the board officials that there was no reason we kept playing Asghar, nawroz and other oldies when we were blessed with very capable younger players. As the oldies won’t improve.
Board at that time and until few months ago was ran by Shafiq Stanikzai, good friend of Asghar and other oldies. Instead of following Andy Moles’s advice, Shafiq sacked Moles and national academy coach Peter Anderson. They made agreement with Nabi that he would step down and offer his captaincy to Asghar. Which also happened, Shahzad who had been thrown out for bad form and discipline was also called back after the coaches were sacked.
Few months ago new chairman sacked his CEO (Shafiq), ahead of world Asghar with others tried to install Shafiq as chairman, they lost and Asghar got demoted. Lot of noise and drama was created and goes on till this day
New chairman also doesn’t want to renew Phil’s contract, because Phil doesn’t want to coach us inside Afghanistan. And also because Phil was hired by Shafiq and Asghar.
Some our training camps in India has cost us around half million USD. Money the new chairman wants to spend on domestic cricket.
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