Pakistan’s interim Take a look at coach Mike Hesson has denied experiences that Salman Ali Agha refused to attend a gathering with King Charles III, saying the story was fully false and describing it as “unacceptable journalism.”A report by UK-based The Telegraph on Thursday claimed that one of many gamers dropped from Pakistan’s Take a look at squad had refused to attend a gathering with the UK monarch.Hesson dismissed the report and mentioned Salman had been knowledgeable nicely prematurely that he wouldn’t be a part of the Buckingham Palace go to.Hesson mentioned Salman didn’t attend the viewers with the King as a result of he was a part of the trio of gamers dropped from the squad first and, in consequence, Salman, Imam and Rizwan had been taken from the checklist of attendees to Clarence Home, BBC reported.“Look, I do know there’s been a void within the information, however persons are simply making up tales. Salman Ali Agha, as I’ve mentioned, the three gamers had been launched from the squad earlier than I arrived, nicely earlier than Buckingham Palace,” Hesson mentioned on Friday.“They had been despatched a observe at the moment that these three gamers wouldn’t be attending Buckingham Palace. So, somebody’s simply made one thing up,” he added.Hesson mentioned the gamers who remained with the squad had already been invited to the occasion and there have been no last-minute adjustments.“By way of the opposite gamers, all the remainder of the gamers that had been within the squad had been already on the checklist. I used to be already on the checklist because the white-ball head coach, so there have been no adjustments to it,” he mentioned.“It was all very easy. Somebody’s simply bought two and two collectively and provide you with 9. For me, that is unacceptable journalism,” Hesson added.Pakistan’s teaching and squad adjustments got here after defeats within the first two Exams towards England.Pakistan misplaced the primary Take a look at at Headingley by an innings and 103 runs earlier than struggling a 194-run defeat at Lord’s, giving England an unassailable 2-0 lead within the three-match sequence.The Pakistan Cricket Board then made drastic adjustments, sending seven gamers house, calling up one other seven gamers and changing Take a look at head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed with Hesson, who was already serving as Pakistan’s white-ball head coach.Senior gamers Imam-ul-Haq and Salman Ali Agha, who captained Pakistan within the first Take a look at at Headingley when Babar Azam was injured, had been among the many gamers requested to go away the tour.
