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Afridi was this week fined three million rupees (35,500 US dollars) and put on six-month probation for ball-tampering, one of seven players punished by the PCB for dismal performances on the December-February tour of Australia.
“This is the best possible team and if they play to their potential I am sure they can defend the title,” chief selector Mohsin Khan told AFP, adding that the Twenty20 captain would be “announced in a couple of days.”
Pakistan will defend the title it won in England last year in the third edition of the World Twenty20 championship, to be played in the West Indies from April 20 to May 16.
Afridi, appointed captain of Pakistan’s World Twenty20 team after Younus Khan retired from the format, was one of three players to be included in the Twenty20 squad after being punished by the PCB this week.
Umer Akmal and Kamran Akmal were also named in the squad despite being fined and put on probation this week for disciplinary offences in Australia.
Shoaib Malik, Pakistan captain’s in the first World Twenty20 in 2007, and paceman Rana Naved-ul-Hasan were not selected after they were banned for one year for their disciplinary breaches in Australia.
Former captains Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf were suspended indefinitely from the national side, after losing the Australian tour’s Test series 3-0, the one-day series 5-0, as well as the only Twenty20 game.
Mohsin Khan, a former opener, disagreed that this week’s bans and fines would affect performance, saying the penalties were “a positive step.”
“The problems of indiscipline and infighting were affecting the team like cancer and I back all the decisions, not as chief selector, not as a former player but as a Pakistani,” he said.
Squad: Salman Butt, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Hafeez, Misbah-ul-Haq, Fawad Alam, Umer Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Yasir Arafat, Hammad Azam, Kamran Akmal, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer, Saeed Ajmal
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