Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis on Sunday refused to step down from his position despite being in the line of fire for the team's disastrous World Twenty20 campaign, saying that he will not go out as a "villain".
"I am being portrayed as the villain. If the Board wants to remove me they first have to inform me in writing. I have no issues but I will not go like this," Waqar said.
Pakistan cricket has been thrown into disarray after the team's poor performances in the Asia Cup and World T20 but Waqar said he did all he could to arrest the slide.
"I didn't request for the coaching job. I applied for it with the PCB. I was interviewed by Mr Najam Sethi and I submitted a comprehensive plan to him with which he concurred and the board appointed me as coach," Waqar said in an interview.
"Unfortunately after the World Cup 2015 Sethi never met me and despite me pointing out several issues I was facing in unfolding my plan no one in the board listened to me," he said.
"Now they are trying to blame me for everything. They want to sack me. I can go tomorrow. But if things continue this way in Pakistan cricket two years down the line some other coach would also find himself in a similar position," he added.