Salman Butt gets job offer from Afghanistan Cricket Board

ISLAMABAD: Days after removal from the Pakistan Cricket Board’s selection panel, former captain Salman Butt got a job offer from the Afghanistan Cricket Board (AFB).

Along with Kamran Akmal and Iftikhar Anjum, the former captain was appointed as the consultant to chief selector by the PCB, with their role to begin ahead of the five-match T20I series against New Zealand in January. After severe backlash, the PCB removed Salman Butt as a consultant to the chief selector.

Now, Salman Butt has been contacted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board and is offered job of Batting Consultant for the upcoming series against India.

Afghanistan is scheduled to play India next month.

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The intervention of Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, who is the Patron-in-Chief of PCB, forced the cricket board to withdraw Salman Butt’s name as the consultant to chief selector Wahab Riaz a day after he was appointed to the position.

The move ended Butt’s selection career before it started.

“Salman Butt’s appointment as consultant was under consideration. Now we have decided after thinking about this, that we are not appointing him,” Pakistan chief selector Wahab Riaz said while addressing a press conference.

Riaz told reporters that people were talking all sorts of stuff about him and Salman Butt. “Therefore, I am reverting the decision and I have told him [Butt] that he cannot be part of the selection team,” he added.