His stats are a bit better than that as he failed when he debuted at a very young age and has failed being thrown in random positions down the order.
Under Agha his stats are 25.7 at sr 127 as opener under Agha captaincy. Admittedly not much difference. But he is one of the better batsman for us in average and even sr there are slower.
More importantly Agha, Haris and ayub have been downright terrible, even in comparison to Farhan. Farhan at least has had mis moments. Hasan has been better but has now been dropped.
I think he’s a good placeholder until we find better. There aren’t a lot of prospects right now, the alternatives are guys who are very young with hardly any domestic. Maybe you could argue Saud as opener, but he isn’t an exactly aggressive batsman and you could probably play him at 3 anyway.
While it might be insane to say despite those poor stats, he’s probably been something like our 2nd or 3rd best batsman these days. So I feel we have to persist with him for now, until we bolster the players around him. Even in terms of experienced batsman we have just one performing (and even then hardly incredible) in fakhar these days who is 35.
Just a rubbish situation but what can you do, you just have to make the best of it and hope good times are ahead.