As the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) swung the axe on 7 players and two coaches in the middle of the England Test series, the cricketing world witnessed something it had never seen.
One of the players who said no to the meeting was Salman Ali Agha, the man who led the team in the first Test, according to a UK-based media report. During the gap between the second and the third Test, the Pakistan team also met King Charles in the United Kingdom, but reports suggested that certain players refused to be a part of the meeting as they had been ‘sacked’.
Pakistan coach Mike Hesson lambasted a news report suggesting Salman Ali Agha was among Pakistani players who refused to meet King Charles.
I was already on the list as the white-ball head coach, so there have been no changes to it,” he said. Among the casualties was head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed , who was recently given the Test team’s baton. The man who replaced him was Mike Hesson, the white-ball coach. As Hesson arrived to address the media ahead of the third and final Test in Edgbaston, he was asked about the players’ refusal to meet the UK monarch. The coach, however, wasn’t happy with the question, or rather, the rumour. “In terms of the other players, all of the rest of the players that were in the squad were already on the list. “It was all very straightforward. Someone’s just got two and two together and come up with nine. For me, that’s unacceptable journalism,” Hesson asserted.
