{"id":70984,"date":"2025-04-16T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70984"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:59:24","slug":"umar-akmal-slams-pcb-over-age-bias-in-psl-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/umar-akmal-slams-pcb-over-age-bias-in-psl-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Umar Akmal slams PCB over age bias in PSL selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan middle-order batsman Umar Akmal has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-declares-saim-ayub-fit-ahead-of-psl-2025\/\">PCB<\/a>) for allowing 43-year-old players to play in the 10th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-super-league-gets-the-number-treatment\/\">Pakistan Super League<\/a> (PSL).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his YouTube channel, Umar Akmal expressed his disappointment, saying, &#8220;The PCB tells us that we are too old to play or mentor, yet players aged 43 and 45 are playing, what should we do, shoot ourselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that players like himself, Ahmed Shehzad and Sohaib Maqsood are being ignored simply because they are around 34 years old, while older players are being selected.<\/p>\n<p>Umar accused the board of age-based discrimination in player selection and criticised the standard of fitness tests, saying that some senior players and coaches have never even taken a fitness test. He alleged that some senior players only prepare for the PSL and block the possibilities of young talent.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned why fans would come to the stadium if big names were kept out of PSL matches.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, former cricketer and national team batting consultant Muhammad Yousuf had also expressed concern over Shoaib Malik&#8217;s 43-run performance in PSL 10 and urged the PCB to formulate a clear policy regarding the selection of aged players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan middle-order batsman Umar Akmal has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for allowing 43-year-old players to play in the 10th edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Speaking on his YouTube channel, Umar Akmal expressed his disappointment, saying, &#8220;The PCB tells us that we are too old to play or mentor, yet players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":70985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[967,4621,364,24673],"class_list":["post-70984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-super-league","tag-umar-akmal","tag-pcb","tag-psl-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70986,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984\/revisions\/70986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}