Md Yousuf has lashed out at national selectors for giving him the cold shoulder as far as T20 cricket is concerned.

Yousuf, who has played 79 Test and 269 One-day Internationals, is said to be very upset on learning that the selectors have not recommended his name for the four-nation Twenty20 tournament to be held in Toronto from October 10.

"Go and ask any reputed former captain if I should not be playing Twenty20 cricket for Pakistan. Ask Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Inzamam-ul-Haq if I shouldn't be playing.

"If they say I don't deserve to be in Pakistan's T20 team, I will retire from all cricket," Yousuf said in a hard hitting interview to 'Daily Jang'.

He accused the authorities of picking the Twenty20 side on personal whims and fancies and said he couldn't comprehend the criteria that was followed while picking the team.

"I am the best Pakistan batsman and I should be in the playing XI for Twenty20 cricket," said the middle-order batsman who was shortlisted for this year's ICC's One-day International Cricketer of the Year award.