Inzamam-ul Haq on Friday hit back at the probe committee for describing him as an "autocratic" captain and said he was being made the scapegoat for the Pakistan cricket team's World Cup debacle.
The former captain said he was surprised at the way the three-member probe committee blamed him for everything that went wrong in the World Cup in its report made public on Thursday.
Inzamam also said that he respected all the members of the probe committee but the fact was none of them had any experience of leading the national team.
"How they can comment on captaincy without having experienced it is beyond me?
"I am no dictator. Neither was I ever autocratic as a captain. I always took decisions after consulting with the other senior players and team management," Inzamam told PTI.
"The strange thing is that when the team was doing well under my captaincy no one said anything. More strange is the part that former players have criticised me in the past for being too easy-going on the field and not showing more authority as captain. And the committee says I was a dictator," he said.
Inzamam said he was the latest victim in Pakistan's blame game.
"The sad fact is that in Pakistan cricket, after every big defeat, blame has to be laid on someone. This time it is me. But why do people forget how well the team did in so many matches. We had one bad tournament and I accept responsibility for that. But to brand me all these things has hurt me," he said.
