Spots: Pakistan Cricket Board has announced the central contracts for the 2024-25 international season. This gave opportunity to 25 players. The special thing is that Pakistani batsman Fakhar Zaman was included in the central deal. He was also not included in Pakistan's squad for the tour of Australia and Zimbabwe. Fakhar is known for his excellent batting and in the past too he has won many matches for Pakistan team on his own. Once it gets stuck in the fold, it becomes difficult to get it out. PCB had dropped star players like Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem for the second and third Test matches of the series against England. After this, Fakhar Zaman made a post on social network X and wrote that the removal of Babar Azam is worrying. India did not leave Virat Kohli on the bench during the crisis between 2020 and 2023, when his averages were 19.33, 28.21 and 26.50 respectively. If the team thinks of leaving out its main batsman, the best batsman in the history of Pakistan, then it may send a negative message to the team.
After Fakhar Zaman did this, PCB issued him a notice and gave seven days time to Fakhar to clarify his stand. He had earlier informed PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi about the actions of the PCB Chairman. Fakhar was retained in the B category by the PCB last year and this time he was dropped from the central contract.
Fakhar Zaman has played for the Pakistan team in all three formats of cricket and made his ODI debut for Pakistan in 2017. He then scored a century for India in the 2017 Champions Trophy final. So far he has scored 192 runs in 3 Tests and 3492 runs in 82 ODIs. Since then he has scored 1,848 runs in 92 T20 International matches. He has scored a total of 11 centuries in international cricket, all of them in ODIs.
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