Pakistan, Sept. 3 -- Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi has rejected claims that cricket has finished in Pakistan. He called such statements unreasonable and pointed to recent improvements in limited-overs cricket. Naqvi made the comments while speaking to reporters in London on Wednesday. He said Pakistan's ODI ranking had improved from eighth to fifth. He also highlighted the team's recent series record.

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Naqvi said Pakistan had won four of its last six ODI series. He claimed the team's success rate had increased from 24 percent to 73 percent, used recent results from other cricketing nations to challenge claims about Pakistan's decline. He said South Africa had lost...