Ramiz Raja calls new appointment "ego-driven" and doomed to fail

Former chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ramiz Raja criticizes the decision to appoint Mickey Arthur as the national men's team's director. 

He believes it is an ego-driven decision that won't work and will backfire. 

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“I think this has been massively mishandled because this concept won’t work. This is an ego-driven decision because they don’t want to accept what the previous board has done. You are allowed to formulate your own strategy, but that doesn’t mean that you belittle local coaches and stars,” Raja said on his official YouTube channel.

“I think this is futile and will massively backfire,” he added.

He also hopes that skipper Babar Azam was consulted before making the decision. 

“I don’t know whether he has talked about this, but Babar Azam, despite being easygoing, has very strong views on certain things. I hope he was consulted before such a step was taken,” he said.

Arthur previously served as the team's head coach for three years, but his contract was not renewed after the team's poor performance in the 2019 World Cup. 

Ramiz Raja was part of the 1992 World Cup-winning Pakistani cricket team led by Imran Khan. 

He was named chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in September of the previous year.