Overview
- Wasim Akram publicly criticised the Pakistan Super League on Friday, saying the competition has run for a decade without producing a noteworthy specialist batter for the national side.
- He held up India’s teenage Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as the kind of young batting talent Pakistan should aim to produce from its pathways.
- Akram called for a revival of club cricket and proposed the Pakistan Cricket Board invest Rs100 million each in Karachi and Lahore to rebuild grassroots talent.
- He warned that bringing in high-profile coaches will not fix the problem and urged the PCB to allow the domestic system three to four years to develop technically sound batters.
- Akram’s comments come against Pakistan’s poor Test tour of England, where heavy defeats, a mid-series squad overhaul and a PCB inquiry have focused attention on deeper structural failings and possible policy changes.