Wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed has replaced Shahid Afridi as captain of Pakistan's Twenty20 team. Afridi quit as captain after Pakistan lost three of its four group matches at the World Twenty20 tournament in India, but said he wanted to continue playing the shortest format of international cricket. "I spoke to Sarfraz this morning and conveyed to him that he was our natural choice for this position," PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said. Ahmed, 28, played in all the four World Twenty20 matches, but batted lower down the order throughout the tournament despite having a good strike rate of 120.24 in 21 Twenty20 internationals. Ahmed led Quetta Gladiators in Pakistan's first professional domestic Twenty20 league in February before losing to the Misbah-ul-Haq-led Islamabad United in the final. Pakistan is likely to play only three T20 internationals in the remainder of 2016, one against England and two against the world champion West Indies. Following the drubbing Pakistan suffered in the T20 matches, coach Waqar Younis also stepped down from his post.
