Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt said Monday the national team only needs bowling and fielding coaches and that batsmen should be responsible for preparing themselves befoze selection.

"When a player (batsman) comes to test cricket ... if he needs coaching he should not have been selected," Butt told reporters.

"I am not an expert," Butt said when asked why Pakistan's top order batsmen were struggling against South Africa. "Ask the chairman of selectors. When our captain (Shahid Afridi) returns ask him, he is an expert, ask our coach he is an expert." "What I do believe is that bowling and fielding are the areas in which you need help all the time."

Butt added that former Pakistan internationals were not willing to help support the current side.

Butt asked several senior Pakistan cricketers "to guide young players, like Mohammad Amir," but nobody was willing to do so. "In other countries senior players help youngsters, here nobody comes forward," Butt said.

Butt said Pakistan would be sending its 30-member list of probable players for the next year's World Cup to the International Cricket Council by Nov.30.

Three Pakistan cricketers - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir - are suspended by the ICC over charges of spot-fixing and on Sunday the appeals of Butt and Amir against provisional suspensions were rejected by the ICC's code of conduct commission.

Butt said the three could only be included if they were exonerated by the ongoing investigation and "that too (only) if the ICC allowed the PCB."