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Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam has exposed there are certain Pakistan players who get in the way in the management issue and leak information to the media.
"The main problem I have faced is that some players try to get in the way in management issues and when that happens then problems occur. Everyone wants to know what his role is in the team," Intikhab told the Geo Super channel in an interview.
"Another big trouble in the team is that some players leak out information to the media about team meetings and activities which are not meant for public expenses and that leads to misunderstanding and problems and these things are damaging to the team," he added.
Intikhab, who has been with the team since October 2008 as coach and then manager, said there had been instances when inside information was leaked to the media.
He said: "They were times when, 15 minutes after a team meeting, television channels were running tickers about things that happened or were discussed in the meeting."
He said this was unlucky as most of the time the organization knew which players were responsible for this.
"This is a big complexity in the team. There is a need for these players to sit down and discuss everything including uncertainties with the management," he added. The 69-year-old former captain said this ethnicity had developed in the team in the last 10-years.
"We are now trying to explain things to the players reform them and make them recognize the repercussion of their actions. Lack of education in some players is a big block for us. But we have succeed in slowly turning things around," Intikhab said.
Intikhab added players were now responding and due to the strong backing of the PCB, the management had succeeded in rooting out groupings in the team.
"Let me tell you the Board chairman has never interfered in my work. I am not a yes-man," he asserted Alam's critical information in the past has led the Board to remove Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan and Shahid Afridi as captains.
In his last tour report of the West Indies tour, Intikhab described Afridi as an unbalanced and unpredictable person who had problems with Coach Waqar Younis.
"Afridi is an energetic, eager and unpredictable person who acts on impulse and later realizes what he has done. But I have no personal issues with him and I have found him to be a good man," he said.
"Let me tell you that whatever I have printed in my report about some players and captains is based on particulars and figures and the truth," he added.
On the case of wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider fleeing the team hotel from Dubai last November to seek refuge in London, Intikhab said he feel sorry for him as he was a very good stumper.
"He is now proverb that what he did was wrong but I just feel sad that whoever advise him to do all this has damaged him and Pakistan cricket. The sad part is that most of these players don't realize the repercussion of their events until later on," he said.
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