Drama continues in Pakistan cricket: Misbah-ul-Haq resigns from PCB selection committee after 7 players were sent home from England tour originally appeared on Cricket News.
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KEY TAKEAWAY:
- Misbah-ul-Haq has reportedly stepped down from the PCB’s selection committee.
- Misbah’s decision comes a day after Pakistan sent back seven players from their Test squad in the middle of the England series.
- Misbah was reportedly unhappy with the decision to make changes in the squad in the middle of a series.
Misbah-ul-Haq quits Pakistan selection panel following mid-tour chaos and Sarfaraz Ahmed sacking in England
Misbah-ul-Haq has walked away from his role on the PCB selection committee after seven Test players were abruptly pulled out of the England tour following the 194-run defeat at Lord’s.
According to The Express Tribune, Misbah has already submitted his resignation letter to the board. He’s expected to work through a notice period before officially stepping away from the role.
What seems to have triggered this was the PCB’s decision to release seven players from the squad following the crushing loss at Lord’s, bringing in fresh faces for the series finale at Edgbaston instead.
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Misbah, despite sitting on the selection committee, was reportedly left completely out of the loop on how and why those calls were made, and that exclusion clearly didn’t sit well with him.
Moreover, Sarfaraz Ahmed lost his job as red-ball head coach, and Umar Gul was also relieved of his fast-bowling coach duties. White-ball head coach Mike Hesson, alongside bowling coach Ashley Noffke, have been asked to step in to steady things for the Edgbaston Test as the board didn’t have many options left with the series on the line.
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Pakistan’s selection committee is already under strain
Misbah’s association with the panel only goes back to March 2026, when the PCB revamped the committee after Aleem Dar stepped down following a rough T20 World Cup campaign. Sarfaraz had joined the selection setup around the same time, before later taking the red-ball coaching job on April 18.
It was just ahead of a two-Test tour of Bangladesh that Pakistan lost 2-0. A subsequent series against West Indies ended in a 1-1 draw, hardly the platform of stability the team needed heading into England.
Now, with Pakistan 2-0 down and facing a series whitewash at Edgbaston, the mounting results pressure appears to have finally cracked the working relationships behind the scenes.
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Misbah’s exit is another symptom of PCB’s chronic dysfunction
Misbah’s resignation isn’t really surprising once you look at the pattern here. Pakistan cricket has a long, tiring habit of making major calls without proper consultation, then acting shocked when senior figures walk out the door.
When you sideline a sitting selector from such an important decision as sending seven players home mid-series isn’t just poor etiquette; it’s a structural failure. You can’t build a functioning selection process if half the committee finds out about major moves after they’ve already happened.
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This kind of chaos doesn’t just cost Pakistan on the field, though that’s bad enough with a whitewash now looming. It corrodes trust among the very people meant to steer the team through rough patches. Until PCB fixes how decisions actually get made, rather than just reshuffling names in and out of jobs, these resignations and walkouts are only going to keep piling up.
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