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Pakistan cricket chief selector Mohsin Hasan Khan said that it was not mandatory to consult the coach and the caption on the selection of the squad. Let me clarify that it is not written down in the PCB constitution that the coach and captain(s) must have a say in the selection of any squad, he told the website PakPassion.net. My selection committee and I were asked by the PCB management to select squads for the series against South Africa, so we did that. We were asked by the PCB management to select a squad at short notice, because of the logistics of the series in the UAE and the travel arrangements of the team had to be sorted out very quickly, he added. Both limited-overs captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis have complained that their inputs on team composition weren't taken. The board announced a 15-man squad to take on South Africa last week, but didn't initially name a captain. A day later, Misbah-ul-Haq was appointed Test captain and Afridi was retained as leader of the side for the shorter formats.
