One of the finest spinners of Pakistan, Saeed Ajmal, said that the Pakistan team “has gone back 10 years.” As a new-look Pakistan team takes on England in the third and final Test at Edgbaston, hoping to avoid a 0-3 whitewash as well, Ajmal slammed the team, calling out everything that is going wrong with the Pakistan team.

“The board itself has demotivated the players more than anyone else. The board is not letting any player settle. There are players who have done well, who have also been dropped. There are players who have been humiliated by the PCB,” Ajmal said.

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However, Ajmal also took a swipe at Aaqib Javed, the team’s high-performance director, and Mike Hesson, who took charge of Pakistan’s red-ball side ahead of the third Test against England as well.

“Aaqib Javed and Mike Hesson (who has been asked to take over the Test team for the third Test) are a team. These two are controlling everything and are responsible for this whole mess. The whole issue is about egos,” Ajmal said on Samaa TV. “Our team has gone back 10 years. We have not planned for the future.”

“Every match of a series is important for us, and we are not left with any option if a player is not performing but to look for his replacement. The purpose behind these changes is not to axe players from contention, but just to replace them. Consider [Salman] Agha, who is a very good player, but he could not click for certain reasons. He was spoken to about it,” he concluded.