Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has demanded the immediate removal of head coach Mike Hesson following the team\u2019s loss to India in the ACC Men\u2019s T20 Asia Cup 2025 final.<\/p>\n
Basit Ali said poor planning by Hesson was the main reason for Pakistan\u2019s defeat. He urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to appoint a local coach \u201cwho can feel for the country\u201d instead of relying on foreigners.<\/p>\n
The ex-batsman also questioned Pakistan\u2019s preparations ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup, stressing that the team has failed to defeat any major side in recent months.<\/p>\n
Basit Ali voiced strong criticism of captain Salman Ali Agha, calling him a \u201cyes man\u201d who lacks leadership qualities and fails to take decisive actions on the field. He also objected to the team management\u2019s decision not to use Salman and Mohammad Nawaz as bowlers at crucial stages of the final.<\/p>\n
Highlighting concerns over internal team decisions, Basit Ali alleged that Shaheen Shah Afridi has been unfairly sidelined. He urged PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi to make tough calls before the World Cup, including restoring Afridi as captain to revive the team\u2019s balance and public confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cShaheen Afridi was sacked unjustly; he should be re-appointed as captain of the national side,\u201d Basit Ali asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has demanded the immediate removal of head coach Mike Hesson following the team\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[114786,26645,64,63,114782,9659,740,114783,114784,114787,114785,85],"class_list":["post-177378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-afridi","tag-ali","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basit","tag-captain","tag-cricket","tag-demands","tag-hesson","tag-reinstatement","tag-removal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}