Karachi: The controversy involving Ahmed Shehzad pushed him out of the race for the captaincy of T20 team which fell vacant after Mohammad Hafeez stepped down a few months ago.
According to the sources the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has all but decided not to consider the credentials of Ahmed Shehzad for the national twenty20 captaincy — a slot that has remained vacant since Mohammad Hafeez resigned the post last April.
According to well-placed sources in the PCB, in-form batsman Fawad Alam has unexpectedly emerged as the front-runner to replace Hafeez, who quit the post following Pakistan's failure to reach the semi-finals of the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh five months ago.