Brendon McCullum
McCullum offers to give up Lahore captaincy. Credit: PCB

Lahore Qalandars captain, Brendon McCullum has hinted at giving up his captaincy for the remaining matches.

Meanwhile, Lahore had lost all six games this season. McCullum wants to offload his captaincy in a bid to change the fortunes of the game.

Especially, Thursday night’s six-wicket defeat to Islamabad United was Lahore’s eighth straight loss going back to the end of last season. One of the most popular sides in the PSL is likely to finish last for the fourth consecutive season.

However, with four games remaining Lahore aren’t mathematically out of contention for a spot in the playoffs. Although, the chances are very bleak.

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As captain you have to take responsibilities:

McCullum maintained as captain he has to take the responsibility.

Although he admitted he had done the rights, but results have not come their way.

Ultimately as captain, you’re responsible for the performances. I feel like I’ve done the same things that I do in any team that I’ve led, but unfortunately that hasn’t resonated,” McCullum said. “So that’s the question we’ve got to ask tonight as well – whether it’s better offloading it to someone else and seeing if we can get better results. Doesn’t matter if you’re saying the right things, but if they’re not hitting home or the instructions aren’t being followed, then you’re always going to be pushing it uphill,” he added.

PSL 2018: Brendon McCullum Hints at Giving up Lahore Qalandars Captaincy
Credit: PSL

Batting unit failed completely:

Further, former New Zealand captain lamented his batsmen for the poor results.

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Meanwhile, it is a similar story the Lahore based side. Their top-order has provided some good start. However, their middle-order has failed to score runs.

I thought it was a very, very good batting performance, set up by Anton Devcich in his first game, and [he] showed how hungry, competitive people are able to prosper. What we did after that, I was really disappointed with, to be honest. It’s not what we’re about, and I don’t mind losing, but you expect to be hard to beat. We’ve got some questions to ask tonight, and that’s all the way through,” McCullum said.

PSL 2018: Brendon McCullum Hints at Giving up Lahore Qalandars Captaincy
Credit: PSL

The bowlers didn’t bowl according to plan:

He was particularly unhappy with the lines they bowled to Luke Ronchi. McCullum said the bowlers deviated from the tactics they had discussed before the match.

You can sit in bowling meetings all you want. You spend an hour today talking about bowling away from Luke Ronchi, and then you proceed to run in and bowl at him every single ball, so there’s a disconnect there,” he said. “I don’t know what that is. It’s very hard on the support staff to prepare a team if guys aren’t prepared to listen, but if that’s the case, then we’re going to have to keep making changes, because there are young, enthusiastic guys in our team, which may be an opportunity, especially now since we’re out of the competition,” he concluded.

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