Although I feel it’s not appropriate for me to engage in cricketing discussion with you because its pointless, I still feel that because of all the mods edits and deleting of posts, there should be some clarification from where this shot off from. Below is my post that was deleted in another thread,
“Younis Khan in Test cricket has played some of the unreal innings that guys like Babar+Rizwan will never play even as a combined entity.
Some of his ODI innings were elite too. When he was on, the guy was an absolute delight to watch. I firmly believe he was on course to become Pakistan’s solid number 3 who set the pace and tempo of the innings around the 2007-8 time (maybe even before it). I remember back then I was in total awe of players like Ponting because they were setting the tempo for their side by bossing it at 3. Punter always batted at a strike rate close to a hundred. He never really celebrated a 50, it wasn’t job done for him. He had that attitude. I wanted a player like that for Pakistan and for brief moments I thought YK was easing into this role.
Pakistan have had too many years of turbulence, politics and infighting as soon as Inzimam stepped away and then you had a slow crawl in of players like Misbah, whilst a drama queen like Hafeez was getting louder and louder with his stuck up attitude! Shoaib Malik as usual doing his “cloak and dagger” politics whilst falling out with everyone. Yousuf continuously living in a delusion of royalty within his head
All of these (although good cricketers) were kept in line during the Inzimam+Woolmer era! They were all let loose like a bunch of wild, toxic pendus and it basically ruined what could have been a great era for Pakistan cricket because the players were still top quality as they had fine batsmen and top class fast bowlers.
YK the proper no.3 ODI batter was lost in this period”
