Kamran Akmal believes brother Umar is treated like a Sacrifice goat by the PCB

Kamran Akmal believes brother Umar is treated like a Sacrifice goat by the PCB: Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal who has been out of the line up for considerable time now, the elder Akmal brother seems to have taken young Umar’s exclusion from the Pakistan team for the tour of Bangladesh quite hard.

Dawn News reported Kamran saying in an interview that brother Umar’s career was being ‘destroyed’ for non-cricketing reasons.

Kamran said, “Umar has always put the cause of the team ahead of any personal comfort. If there were any (disciplinary) issues then coach and team management need to guide youngsters and help them understand that they have done something wrong.

“Discarding them like is not a smart option and it does not reflect well on part of the team management. Good teams can only be built by managing players properly,”

He went ahead and said Umar has always compromised himself for the betterment of the team and that has gone against him, “To his (Umar’s) credit, he has willingly compromised for the sake of the team without any complaints. This is not how good players are made. On the contrary, this is how you destroy good players.” Kamran said.

In response to this a PCB official was quoted by PTI saying, that chairman, Shaharyar Khan was fast losing patience with the growing habit among discarded and former players and also among some of the current team players to give controversial statements in the media.

“The interesting thing is that the national selectors had recently inquired from the cricket board that they wanted to consider Shoaib Malik and even Kamran for future planning and whether the board had any issues with this,” the official said.

He also added that, “The selectors wanted to know whether Malik and Kamran were cleared of any disciplinary or other issues by the board, “This statement from Kamran is not helpful to himself or his brother and even though right now he is not a contracted player but we could seek an explanation from him,” stated the PCB official.