Which imaginary world are we talking about here? Sarfraz was vilified for his being a specialist captain. Every other person in Pakistan, besides people from Karachi obviously, wanted him booted for Rizwan. Hell even senior cricketers like Hafeez went all out in Rizwan's defense on Twitter and wanted Sarfraz removed. This was when Hafeez was still playing by the way. Shoaib Malik had sort of a mini-gang going against
Saifi bhai aswell during the World Cup 2019.
It was certainly not just Misbah fans, everyone wanted him removed from the Pakistan team itself. Once Rizwan hit those two centuries against Australia in UAE right before the World Cup and Sarfraz got himself in hot waters for the racist comment in South Africa, he was going to go no matter what. Things got so bad in fact that fans were publicly heckling Sarfraz DURING the World Cup 2019, while he was with his family at an outing.
His 2018 T20 outings were ignored due to him beating up B or C teams that were sent to the UAE. I don't agree with that, but I'm sure posters who were here during that time remember how toxic the environment had become.
Once again, these above are facts and not something I came up with. You can use the search function on PP and go back to that time or ask
@Mamoon who used to be even more critical of this team back then (maybe because he had some hope left).