India, Aug. 17 -- The Pakistan Cricket Board has retained head coach Wahab Riaz and the other coaches of the national women's squad for the forthcoming Asia Cup in the UAE and the Asian Games in Japan. In another surprising call, the selectors have recalled senior batter Aliya Riaz for the Asian Games, even though she has not performed well since being dropped for the tour of Sri Lanka following a poor ICC T20 World Cup.

The selectors have also again ignored two top batters, Sidra Amin and Sadaf Shams, for both the T20 tournaments, as both have been deemed to be only ODI players. Sidra scored a hundred in the ODI series that Pakistan lost in Sri Lanka.

Pakistan lost both the ODI and T20 series in Sri Lanka and, before that, finished wit...