Farhat furious over PCB's biased attitude

Lahore, Aug 22 (UNI) Pakistan Test discard Imran Farhat has said the biased attitude of PCB and the national selectors has compelled him to join the rebel Indian league.

''Despite being the top scorer at the Patron's Trophy One-day Cup and in the Pentangular Cup, the selectors have been considering me as a Test player.

''They don't know I am also a record holder of the national Twenty20 championship, having scored 115 in an innings of the second edition of the national event in Karachi,'' Farhat said.

The 25-year-old dashing opener, who has been overlooked by the 'wise men' of Pakistan cricket for next month's Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa inspite of consistent showing in the domestic circuit, termed the PCB's step to enlist him in the list of Future Players Programme as 'humiliating'.

''Instead of being appreciated I was put in the list of Future Players Programme that caused me great mental torture. And as if this wasn't humiliating enough, the selectors called me for the Twenty20 camp in Karachi, only to drop me to give another shock,'' farhat told 'The Dawn'.

He further said that no one should have any problem if a player decides to play for a county or for any other league.

Apart from Imran, other Pakistani players who have joined the breakaway league includes former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, dependable middle-order batsman Mohammad Yousuf and all-rounder Abdul Razzaq.

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