Rashid Latif criticises selection of Mohammad Haris over Shan Masood.

KARACHI -- Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has criticised the selection of young wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Haris over Shan Masood in the national team for the ODI series against West Indies.

Haris, who made his ODI debut against West Indies on Wednesday, was slated to bat at number five, but when the run chase proved difficult, Khushdil Shah was sent to bat ahead of him.

Shan has been kept out of the squad because he is an opener, but Haris has been chosen to bat in the middle order despite being an opener.

"In the pre-match press conference, Babar Azam had said that he's [Haris] not a middle-order batter, he's an opener. But the next day, Haris gets into the middle order based on his T20 performance. I didn't like it. I felt bad," Latif said on his official YouTube channel.

"On one hand, you're saying that Shan Masood can't play in the middle...