Najam Sethi says chose Shahid Afridi for his 'bold and beautiful' style.

KARACHI -- The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Najam Sethi championed the appointment of Shahid Afridi as selection committee head as worthy, calling him a 'bold and beautiful' player having the guts to take daring as well as endearing decisions on and off the field.

Speaking to Arab News, the PCB managing committee chairman, who was given the responsibility last month in a sudden change of guard at the cricket board, said that Afridi was very popular and the sort of person they wanted in the selection committee who could take 'bold' decisions.

Afridi was given charge of men's team selection after Mohammad Wasim was sacked by the new PCB management. Since then, multiple changes have been made in the squad for the New Zealand Test series.

Defending his decision to bring in the swashbuckling batter, Sethi said he was someone to experiment with new talent and to realise where 'the old was still gold'.

'I think that was missing in this team which is why we had four defeats in a row in Test matches," he said, referring to back-to-back losses in the red ball format against England and Australia.

"Afridi was on board, he wanted to make...