Former Test batsman Mohsin Khan was appointed as chief selector by the Pakistan Cricket Board Tuesday. He's the fourth chief selector in the last eight months. Mohsin replaced Iqbal Qasim, who resigned after Australia whitewashed Pakistan 3-0 in the Test series and 5-0 in the one-dayers last month. Mohammad Ilyas, Salim Jaffer and Azhar Khan will continue as regular members of the selection panel while Asif Baloch and Farrukh Zaman will be co-opted members of the committee, the PCB said in a statement. Mohsin, 54, played 48 Tests from 1978-86 and scored 2,709 runs at an average of 37.10. Together with Mudassar Nazar, he formed one of Pakistan's most dependable opening pair. He also featured in 75 One-Day Internationals and made 1,877 runs (26.81). Last June, former Test leg-spinner Abdul Qadir resigned over differences with PCB chairman Ijaz Butt during the World Twenty20. Wasim Bari, who was later named as PCB chief operating officer, served as interim chief selector before Qasim took over. Qasim resigned after Pakistan's disastrous tour of Australia, where it also lost the only Twenty20 international. - AP Sarwan, Bravo to miss ODIs Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo will remain on the sidelines for the first two One-day Internationals against Zimbabwe, the West Indies Cricket Board announced late Monday. Media reports indicated that Sarwan and Bravo were excluded from a 14-member West Indies squad because the team management wants the two players to prove their fitness before clearing them for action. This follows a slew of injuries over the last three months that has gnawed away at the fabric of the side, and has been advanced as a contributing factor to their drab performance in Australia, where they were swept in four of five ODIs and two Twenty20 Internationals. The home team still has fast bowlers Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards under treatment. Both have been battling back injuries. Taylor may return in the middle of the year for the home series against South Africa, but Edwards is likely to miss the rest of the year following surgery last month. West Indies will benefit from the return of its captain and talismanic opener Chris Gayle, after he was allowed to miss the T20I against the visitors on compassionate grounds to visit his ill mother. He will have to help West Indies restore its confidence and plummetting reputation, after they sunk to a shocking 26-run defeat to the African side. The first ODI is Thursday with the second scheduled for Saturday.
