Wahab Riaz: “I did not have any authority as the senior team manager. All the authority was with the coach and his management. The final decision makers were the coach and the captain in the T20 World Cup”
Image courtesy of: Unsplash
Former Pakistan left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz has made it clear that he had zero authority while serving as Pakistan’s senior team manager.
Wahab, who was sacked from the position in July 2024, noted that all the power lied with “the coach and his management”.
He added that during the 2024 T20 World Cup, all decisions were made by the coach and the captain.
“I did not have any authority as the senior team manager. All the authority was with the coach and his management. The final decision makers were the coach and the captain in the T20 World Cup,” the 39-year-old from Lahore was quoted as saying by PakPassion on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Pakistan team recently toured South Africa and lost the T20I series 2-0 before bouncing back to claim a 3-0 victory in the ODIs.
As for the two-Test series, the men in green were beaten 2-0.
Pakistan then took on the West Indies in a two-Test series in Multan, which ended as a 1-1 draw.
Pakistan Squad for West Indies Test Series: Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq, Kamran Ghulam, Kashif Ali, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Noman Ali, Rohail Nazir (wicketkeeper), Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha
[TS_Poll id=”161″]