LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board
seems divided on making Waqar Younis the national team’s coach and Javed Miandad
has opposed the former pacer’s appointment, citing his involvement in the
match-fixing scandal.

Miandad said he is surprised that the PCB had
not heeded to the Justice Malik Qayyum’s report on match-fixing issued 10 years
ago and was giving responsibilities to those players who were fined on the basis
of the report.

“Everyone knows that Justice Qayyum had recommended to
the board to not give positions of responsibility to Waqar, Aaqib Javed, Wasim
Akram etc in Pakistan cricket but this is what is happening,” he
said.

“I don’t see the logic behind offering Waqar the coaching
position because he was with the team in Australia as bowling and fielding coach
and didn’t do anything notable. Plus he has no prior experience of being a
full-time coach,” Miandad said.

Miandad said he was also surprised
at the plans to have a foreign consultant with the team.

“I offered
my services to the board to work as batting consultant and I am an employee of
the board which is constantly saying it is facing financial problems so why
waste money on a foreign consultant?” he asked.

The former Pakistan
skipper was also not happy with the 30 probables announced for the Twenty20
World Cup and pointed out that it was useless to give chances to players like
Imran Farhat or Imran Nazir.