'My thoughts were to make a good team'

Given Pakistan's poor performance in Australia, former chief selector Iqbal Qasim felt it was his duty to resign as chief selector. However, he notes two big reasons for the team's debacle - not playing to their potential and the lack of professionalism. Read his full interview in Pakpassion.net.

PakPassion.Net: With regards to the choice of captain for the tours of Australia and New Zealand, obviously the selectors and board were put in a difficult position with Younus handing in his resignation shortly before the tour of New Zealand. Yousuf was appointed as skipper, was that a unanimous choice?

Iqbal Qasim: The choice of captain was not the selection committee's decision to make. It was the job of the PCB chairman and the Executive Board members to choose the captain, remove the captain and appoint any captain. We (the selection committee) were never asked about this decision and we didn't interfere in this decision.