Pakistan discarded batsman Umar Akmal has stepped up his verbal attack on chief coach Mickey Arthur despite being issued a show-cause notice by the country’s cricket board.
Relation between Umar and Arthur has not been ideal since last year when Pakistan toured Australia and the coach complained about the batsman’s fitness.
Further, he was sent back from the Champions Trophy in England after Arthur said his fitness standards was not at par with the team.
Umar yesterday said in his tweets that “Dummy” fitness tests were held in England before the Champions Trophy just to fail him and send him back home.
“These tests were held to get me out of the team,” Umar wrote in his twitter handle.
two days ago, Akmal claimed that the foreign coach had used abusive language with him.
In reply, The PCB issued a strong worded statement, condemning the reckless tweets made by Akmal with regards to his omission from the Champions Trophy squad.
“Arthur had placed Umar in his white ball format plans” and given him “repeated chances for redemption,” but he failed to achieve the required fitness level, the statement said.
