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Salman Ali Agha was brought in by Aqib and then later joined by Hesson to usher the new era of modern T20 cricket. Now after a fair run of 26 games, here is the quick summary of the results.

Matches: 26
Won:15
Lost:11

A fair performance or just being masked by playing too many minnows and lower ranked teams ?

Agha+ Aqib
1-4 vs NZ-D

Agha+Hesson+Aqib
0-3 vs India
5-2 vs BD
2-1 vs AFG
2-1 vs WI
1-0 vs SL
3-0 vs UAE
1-0 VS OMAN

It is very difficult to survive after losing 0-3 against India. The knives are already out and his own batting numbers are shocking. So, Is this the end?
 
deep82 said:
Salman Ali Agha was brought in by Aqib and then later joined by Hesson to usher the new era of modern T20 cricket. Now after a fair run of 26 games, here is the quick summary of the results.

Matches: 26
Won:15
Lost:11

A fair performance or just being masked by playing too many minnows and lower ranked teams ?

Agha+ Aqib
1-4 vs NZ-D

Agha+Hesson+Aqib
0-3 vs India

5-2 vs BD​

2-1 vs AFG​

2-1 vs WI​

1-0 vs SL​

3-0 vs UAE
1-0 VS OMAN

It is very difficult to survive after losing 0-3 against India. The knives are already out and his own batting numbers are shocking. So, Is this the end?
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Pakistan was at the same level as these teams when he took over the captaincy and Pakistan beat them all under his leadership. So, I think Pakistan hasn't performed badly according to the expectations. However, his batting can be questioned.
 
The most important thing Pakistan need is stability, there is no fun in changing captain every 6 months.

Salman must continue for next 1 year at least with full backing. Yes, he need to improve his batting but his captaincy overall has been much better than his predecessors.

Darren Sammy won 2 T20 WCs without performance
 
Asif321 said:
No that’s stupid . He has just started . Even I don’t like his decisions but he should lead Pakistan in Wt20 . Then let’s see . If worst ever captain of Pakistan Babar can get 5 years . Agha deserves till WT20
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It's right time to take a decision because Agha do not deserve a place in any T20 team. :kp
 
zaidihusain said:
The most important thing Pakistan need is stability, there is no fun in changing captain every 6 months.

Salman must continue for next 1 year at least with full backing. Yes, he need to improve his batting but his captaincy overall has been much better than his predecessors.

Darren Sammy won 2 T20 WCs without performance
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What was so special about his captaincy? I find it very cringe when people praise his captaincy, he bought Rauf back into the attack and took Saim Ayub off when he had one over left, he didn't have the balls to bowl himself at all, he didn't bowl Nawaz at all when the wickets was aiding spin, he benched Suffiyan Muqeem, benched Hasan Nawaz for Hussain Talat.

He is just another Pakistani softie who bottles it under pressure. Sorry he is not cut out for the job. You can't have a non performing captain, it's not good for team morale
 
It is a tough call since you don't want to upturn the apple cart so soon.

But what coach and selectors must decide is, is Agha a t20 player but going through a bad patch or is just not a t20 player.

All indications are that he isn't a t20 player but if they something that he is, then he should be persisted with but his player role.must be clear and we need 2 overs from him allowing us to drop another rellu kattas to play a specialist bat.
 
If you are to remove him from captain, than who do you go with, do you back to Babar, or Rizwan....or Shaheen. Do you give it to Fakhar, might effect his batting as well, that seems to be an issue with Pak, you give captaincy to a batsman and he batting starts to degrade, its a tough call, but maybe just stick with him until 2026 World cup since it is 5 months away.

Despite me liking Salman, it is clear he is not a t20 player not a great t20 captain, but he is trying to do different things, I think the 15 Pak selected for the Asia Cup was not the best 15 set of players, there was 5 or 6 that should have not made the sqaud.

If Pakistan selects the right 15 for the T20 world cup, they will be a better team, they wont be world champions but they will perform better.
 
stani_pak said:
If you are to remove him from captain, than who do you go with, do you back to Babar, or Rizwan....or Shaheen. Do you give it to Fakhar, might effect his batting as well, that seems to be an issue with Pak, you give captaincy to a batsman and he batting starts to degrade, its a tough call, but maybe just stick with him until 2026 World cup since it is 5 months away.

Despite me liking Salman, it is clear he is not a t20 player not a great t20 captain, but he is trying to do different things, I think the 15 Pak selected for the Asia Cup was not the best 15 set of players, there was 5 or 6 that should have not made the sqaud.

If Pakistan selects the right 15 for the T20 world cup, they will be a better team, they wont be world champions but they will perform better.
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This is a rubbish take I am sorry, just because there are no other alternatives apparently, we should continue to stick with someone who is not even worthy of his own spot in the team?

Don't think so, the first question a captain must answer ie do you make the team yourself?

Salman Ali Agha did not look international material at any stage in this cup. The guy apparently is reputed to be one of the top players of spin bowling from Pakistan and he got embarrassed by Axar, Kuldeep, Hasaranga like easy work.
 
End? Are you kidding me? ISPR already working on the toolkit to present him as the national hero who snatched the trophy from evil baniyas. Don't get surprised if you see victory parades in karachi with the trophy.

Salman is there to stay, his reign has just began.
 
There has to be clarity in the decisions that are needed, and forcing a non-performing out-of-place captain down our throats is not justified in professional sports. He has zero ceiling. We removed Babar and Rizwan because they were out of place in the modern era of T20 cricket and replaced them with another one-paced batter.

Although I think PCB will take the call soon enough, considering Shadab has to come back. He slots in at Agha's position and while he is no world beater, he is a much better T20 batter than Agha can ever hope to be.
 
A bottle job it was on Aghas part , 64 from 34 to defend surely 8/10 times bowling side has edge but he mishandled it compleltely
 
Kianig89 said:
A bottle job it was on Aghas part , 64 from 34 to defend surely 8/10 times bowling side has edge but he mishandled it compleltely
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That was more on Haris Rauf having a shocker of a game. He had the captain, then eventually the coach signaling him the basics but he couldn't listen to either and bowled in Varma's arc for easy runs.
 
Asif321 said:
No that’s stupid . He has just started . Even I don’t like his decisions but he should lead Pakistan in Wt20 . Then let’s see . If worst ever captain of Pakistan Babar can get 5 years . Agha deserves till WT20
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From an opposition perspective. I hope he stays as Pakistan T20 captain for a very long time lol. One walking wicket that also gets you wicket from other end is always good to have.
 
Agha showed his calibre in nz and in sharjah, one anchor in team is alright, but agha can hit spin and little bit to fast as well. Captaincy is alright with hesson guiding him, what's the guarantee that next captain will listen to hesson?
 
He should be given until the world cup, too much change and upheaval will do our chances no good.

We played well in the Asia cup barring the India games, I would put that more down to lack of big game experience.

A couple of tweaks needed for the SA series sure, but nothing TOO major.
 
He does not make the team as a batter. Zero game for T20s.

But somehow he’s the captain. That’s a joke.

Captain should have been Shaheen or Fakhar. Though I do understand changing captains too soon isn’t a smart move either.

Tough situation.
 
I’m not sure his captaincy is the problem, it’s the selection and the utilisation of players in their positions. Every game someone will end up not batting or bowling. Pick your best players and have a plan before the game, not when a wicket falls.

There’s about 4-5 players who don’t deserve to be selected and about 1-2 who are just there because the higher ups wanted them in. Seems like a bit of a dummy.

People suggesting Shaheen, I’m not sure what he’s shown to be captain material.
 
He doesn’t make the team on merit. A weak team like Pakistan can’t afford such passengers in the team even if they are “Imran khan” captaincy wise
 
Boyka said:
I’m not sure his captaincy is the problem, it’s the selection and the utilisation of players in their positions. Every game someone will end up not batting or bowling. Pick your best players and have a plan before the game, not when a wicket falls.

There’s about 4-5 players who don’t deserve to be selected and about 1-2 who are just there because the higher ups wanted them in. Seems like a bit of a dummy.

People suggesting Shaheen, I’m not sure what he’s shown to be captain material.
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He himself doesn’t deserve to be in t20 xi on merit
 
Chikkeh said:
He should be given until the world cup, too much change and upheaval will do our chances no good.

We played well in the Asia cup barring the India games, I would put that more down to lack of big game experience.

A couple of tweaks needed for the SA series sure, but nothing TOO major.
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What? He averaged nothing at a nothing strike-rate throughout the Asia Cup. His output is worse than Saim, who seems to be contributing as a bowler at least.

Haris, the fraud that he is, played a couple of cameos against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh too.

Agha is the only one in this line-up who was a passenger for the entire tournament.
 
I don't mind him being hte captain. But can you give an example of this "great cricketing brain" doing something out of the box on the field? From what i saw Shaheen afridi bailed him out atleast 3 times. But for Shaheen's contribution pakistan may not have been in the final. Then Abrar's spell of 4 overs 8 runs won another game. Those are all individual contributions.
 
Boyka said:
I’m not sure his captaincy is the problem, it’s the selection and the utilisation of players in their positions. Every game someone will end up not batting or bowling. Pick your best players and have a plan before the game, not when a wicket falls.

There’s about 4-5 players who don’t deserve to be selected and about 1-2 who are just there because the higher ups wanted them in. Seems like a bit of a dummy.

People suggesting Shaheen, I’m not sure what he’s shown to be captain material.
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Shaheen has 3 PSL titles on his resume. 3 titles is not a joke and 1 title he has won without the services of Rashid Khan. Shaheen lost one PSL season badly when they did not have the services of Rashid Khan but next season he learn't his lessons and made sure Lahore Qalandars had a better spin bowling replacement. Even in the one tournament Qalandars finished last with Shaheen in charge, he still turned up individually in the final to support his team mates and finalists for the trophy. These are the signs of a good leader.

If Shaheen has decided that he is no longer interested in test cricket and will focus only on T-20 and ODI Cricket, then the workload issue goes out of the window as well. I don't see any other option
 
jnaveen1980 said:
I don't mind him being hte captain. But can you give an example of this "great cricketing brain" doing something out of the box on the field? From what i saw Shaheen afridi bailed him out atleast 3 times. But for Shaheen's contribution pakistan may not have been in the final. Then Abrar's spell of 4 overs 8 runs won another game. Those are all individual contributions.
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This so called great cricketing brain has even lost a T-20 to Zimbabwe where he made wrong bowling choices. He lost 4-1 to NZ and 2-1 to Bangladesh. At some point people have to smell the coffee, he was clearly appointed by the PCB just to get rid of Babar, Rizwan from the team but it is impossible to justify his position in the team. He did not even look international material and class in this Asia Cup at all.
 
Usman Chadda said:
What? He averaged nothing at a nothing strike-rate throughout the Asia Cup. His output is worse than Saim, who seems to be contributing as a bowler at least.

Haris, the fraud that he is, played a couple of cameos against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh too.

Agha is the only one in this line-up who was a passenger for the entire tournament.
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Understand your sentiments bro. I just feel we can't keep chopping and changing, we need to give players a run let them make the mistakes and rectify them.

I believe we will come out better at the end of it.
 
Savak said:
This so called great cricketing brain has even lost a T-20 to Zimbabwe where he made wrong bowling choices. He lost 4-1 to NZ and 2-1 to Bangladesh. At some point people have to smell the coffee, he was clearly appointed by the PCB just to get rid of Babar, Rizwan from the team but it is impossible to justify his position in the team. He did not even look international material and class in this Asia Cup at all.
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Not surprising. He doesn't look assured at all. Chewing gum can only mask so much.
 
Savak said:
What was so special about his captaincy? I find it very cringe when people praise his captaincy, he bought Rauf back into the attack and took Saim Ayub off when he had one over left, he didn't have the balls to bowl himself at all, he didn't bowl Nawaz at all when the wickets was aiding spin, he benched Suffiyan Muqeem, benched Hasan Nawaz for Hussain Talat.

He is just another Pakistani softie who bottles it under pressure. Sorry he is not cut out for the job. You can't have a non performing captain, it's not good for team morale
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As a captain he did the right thing to call Rauf back, you have to trust your frontline bowlers to win you the game instead of part timers. Saim might have gone for runs as well. Yes not utilizing Nawaz & himself is questionable and so is the case of Hassan Nawaz.

Overall it is the collective failure of batting excluding Farhan which has lost the game, Pakistan must have scored 200+ the situation they were in. Salman's own performance is an issue and so is the performance of Saim, Fakhar, Haris, Talat and also main bowlers like Rauf & Shaheen. Rauf was a disaster and Shaheen failed to take a wicket in his over 3 & 4

I still believe Salman should continue for the sake of stability, you can't change captain after every 2nd series
 
Chikkeh said:
Understand your sentiments bro. I just feel we can't keep chopping and changing, we need to give players a run let them make the mistakes and rectify them.

I believe we will come out better at the end of it.
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He's had plenty of time. He's 31 and his domestic stats are shocking in T20 as well. The guy simply isn't cut out for this format.

We won't be better off - this guy is terrible as a batsman and should be dropped. He also isn't good enough as a captain to make up for his massive deficiencies as a batsman.
 
zaidihusain said:
As a captain he did the right thing to call Rauf back, you have to trust your frontline bowlers to win you the game instead of part timers. Saim might have gone for runs as well. Yes not utilizing Nawaz & himself is questionable and so is the case of Hassan Nawaz.

Overall it is the collective failure of batting excluding Farhan which has lost the game, Pakistan must have scored 200+ the situation they were in. Salman's own performance is an issue and so is the performance of Saim, Fakhar, Haris, Talat and also main bowlers like Rauf & Shaheen. Rauf was a disaster and Shaheen failed to take a wicket in his over 3 & 4

I still believe Salman should continue for the sake of stability, you can't change captain after every 2nd series
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  1. Salman Ali Agha doesn't merit a spot in this team, he is less qualified than Rizwan and Babar and I don't want either of them in the side. He has terrible stats in international and domestic T20s.
  2. The pitch was slow, 200 was never going to be realistic. 170 would have been enough. It was slowing and getting slower and so the decision to bring pace back was risky and it failed. It doesn't help that Rauf executed poorly.
 
He has done really well in Odis and tests. Odis especially. Someone who does that well in Odis usually can’t be an absolute failure in t20s.

However he’s just been that. He even in limited/self limited to 4 or 5 because is so called better ability against spin and worse hitting. Other middle order players have been dropped or shifted positions to accommodate him there. He is a true passenger in every sense of the word. He doesn’t bat, bowl or even keep. I don’t think he’s a genius captaining either, there were quite a few bowling changes, toss calls that were strange. But even then I think he is probably ok as captain, but even if he was an amazing captain, a non performing captain isn’t good enough. It’s always going to put strain on the team as you are effectively playing with 10 men. And one less spot to develop an upcoming player.

What was even worse is the other middle order batsmen (and even the top order batsmen) were usually getting out cheaply swinging and missing, trying to hit. Agha isn’t. He is trying to play a slow risk free cricket and yet he is still getting out for single digits. That is extremely worrying.

I’d drop him from captaincy, play him at 3 and give him a last chance saloon sort of situation to save your t20 career. I’d give captaincy to Shaheen.
 
Usman Chadda said:
There has to be clarity in the decisions that are needed, and forcing a non-performing out-of-place captain down our throats is not justified in professional sports. He has zero ceiling. We removed Babar and Rizwan because they were out of place in the modern era of T20 cricket and replaced them with another one-paced batter.

Although I think PCB will take the call soon enough, considering Shadab has to come back. He slots in at Agha's position and while he is no world beater, he is a much better T20 batter than Agha can ever hope to be.
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Shadab can easily replace Agha. Better T20 batter and better spinner.
 
This isn’t even a question. Agha has no business being in the team so the question of him continuing as captain is irrelevant.

Dropping Babar and Rizwan and making him the captain was a hilariously stupid decision in the first place, and the only thing worse than a stupid decision is to stick to it.

Shaheen should be captain and always should have been captain ahead of Agha. However, if PCB were dumb enough to make Agha captain and drop Babar and Rizwan, they can also be stupid enough to continue with Agha.
 
Rana said:
India won the Asia cup with a non performing player as captain 🤡
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He has performance behind him and now most of Indian fans want Sky to dropped from the team.

Literally there is no comparison between sky and Agha. But its coming from you so I'm not surprised at all Knowing your ability to Read the game.

:kp
 
DeadlyVenom said:
He performed in domestic and international in the past.

Agha started his career with a question mark in t20 and it is still hovering above him.
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Seriously i want India to phase SKY out. I know he has the best W/L ratio for an Indian captain. Won 25 out of 29. But we cannot carry even a single passenger.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
He performed in domestic and international in the past.

Agha started his career with a question mark in t20 and it is still hovering above him.
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Now i think this should be end of sky career also. He is not performing since last 2 year with the bat although we are winning the game's.

What about Shadab captaincy? He can be good option for T20 .

:kp
 
DeadlyVenom said:
It is a tough call since you don't want to upturn the apple cart so soon.

But what coach and selectors must decide is, is Agha a t20 player but going through a bad patch or is just not a t20 player.

All indications are that he isn't a t20 player but if they something that he is, then he should be persisted with but his player role.must be clear and we need 2 overs from him allowing us to drop another rellu kattas to play a specialist bat.
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Nobody wants to keep changing captains/coaches and this is precisely why I said in 2024 that our administration is a joke.
We went through Babar followed by Shaheen then back to Babar followed by Rizwan and then Agha. Similarly with coaches...

Fast forward to 2025 we're stuck with a non performing captain..

If he had a stable administration that selected and retained the right person/people for the job we wouldn't be having this discussion now, it would be out with Agha and in with a new captain ad rightly so..

Unless the Administration is revamped and de-politicised, we have the right people at the helm changing captains is not going to make too much of a difference in the long run... BUT changing the captain to someone who can at least hold his place in the team will lead to a temporary fix..
 
Devadwal said:
Now i think this should be end of sky career also. He is not performing since last 2 year with the bat although we are winning the game's.

What about Shadab captaincy? He can be good option for T20 .

:kp
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I think eventually he will become the captain.
 
IMMY69 said:
Nobody wants to keep changing captains/coaches and this is precisely why I said in 2024 that our administration is a joke.
We went through Babar followed by Shaheen then back to Babar followed by Rizwan and then Agha. Similarly with coaches...

Fast forward to 2025 we're stuck with a non performing captain..

If he had a stable administration that selected and retained the right person/people for the job we wouldn't be having this discussion now, it would be out with Agha and in with a new captain ad rightly so..

Unless the Administration is revamped and de-politicised, we have the right people at the helm changing captains is not going to make too much of a difference in the long run... BUT changing the captain to someone who can at least hold his place in the team will lead to a temporary fix..
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You aren;t going to like it, but this is the best administration we have for a long time. Naqvi will bring change, but it will take time to drain the swamp.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
You aren;t going to like it, but this is the best administration we have for a long time. Naqvi will bring change, but it will take time to drain the swamp.
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I won't be holding my breath simply because he himself has admitted that he doesn't know much about cricket.
So whoever he appoints to advise on cricket will have political leanings.
 
Forget everything about his batting and bowling and the rest of his decision-making.

His call to bat first after winning the toss against ind in the group stage is reason enough for this guy to be never made captain of a cricket team again.
 
zaidihusain said:
As a captain he did the right thing to call Rauf back, you have to trust your frontline bowlers to win you the game instead of part timers. Saim might have gone for runs as well. Yes not utilizing Nawaz & himself is questionable and so is the case of Hassan Nawaz.

Overall it is the collective failure of batting excluding Farhan which has lost the game, Pakistan must have scored 200+ the situation they were in. Salman's own performance is an issue and so is the performance of Saim, Fakhar, Haris, Talat and also main bowlers like Rauf & Shaheen. Rauf was a disaster and Shaheen failed to take a wicket in his over 3 & 4

I still believe Salman should continue for the sake of stability, you can't change captain after every 2nd series
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lol he didn't do the right thing at all. Rauf has lost Pakistan crucial matches at the end multiple times. It was pure stupidity to call him back while at the same time bowling Shaheen three overs in the PP. He also bowled out Shaheen before last few overs and was forced to rely on a very unreliable bowlers who is a known choker

Other captaincy howlers includes not bowling Talat alteast an over on a sluggish pitch where spinners were doing well, not bowling your supposed worlds best bowler for couple of more overs, sending up Shaheen when Faheem was still there, etc. I understand Shaheen coming up to up the scoring rate, but yesterday Pakistan were falling like dominos, what is the point sending him up the order when you have you have a guy playing as a allrounder still in the dugout?

Agha looks dumb and plays dumb cricket as a batsman. Shaheen or even Sadhab khan will do much better job and both will be atleast assured of a place in this team unlike a pathetic t20 allrounder who is bad in all areas.
 
The guy looks stoned 24x7...

But he has great swagg...the way he keeps chewing the gum...that's proper swag...a big plus...

Was by far the best english speaking skipper of the Asia Cup. For a Pak skipper to achieve that is like a moral victory.

He's only started... should be given a long rope just for his swag...
:inti
 
Master Blaster said:
The guy looks stoned 24x7...

But he has great swagg...the way he keeps chewing the gum...that's proper swag...a big plus...

Was by far the best english speaking skipper of the Asia Cup. For a Pak skipper to achieve that is like a moral victory.

He's only started... should be given a long rope just for his swag...
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I wouldn’t trust a guy chewing gum every single second to fix a garage door let alone trust him with national team’s captaincy.
 
Savak said:
Sorry but you can't have a non performing captain. He did not look international material at all in this tournament. He must be put out of his misery
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Firstly you make this silly point again and again. Agha is far from perfect but he’s a better captain then most in Pak and deserves a longer run. He’s bailed out Pak batting many times just needs a bit of backing and confidence.

He’s turned to Haris Rauf in the India match exactly like he did against Bangladesh. All Harris had to do was bowl wide of off stump Yorkers. That’s not Aghas fault the scatter gun haris lost the plot.

Yes he could contribute more with the bat but he’s a 3 format all rounder. He will bounce back. Just needs confidence and belief. It’s not like potential leaders are lining up.
 
bones said:
  1. Salman Ali Agha doesn't merit a spot in this team, he is less qualified than Rizwan and Babar and I don't want either of them in the side. He has terrible stats in international and domestic T20s.
  2. The pitch was slow, 200 was never going to be realistic. 170 would have been enough. It was slowing and getting slower and so the decision to bring pace back was risky and it failed. It doesn't help that Rauf executed poorly.
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The team overall looks united under Salman & fighting sprit is clearly visible, yes he is not a natural T20 player and he should get more time to prove his worth.

Your 2nd statement is not correct, it could have gone either way. Spinners would have got hit as well, it's always easy for fans to analyse the game from drawing room. Hauf was the main bowler as there was no Reason for Captain not to trust him
 
He is a horrible captain. He can't bowl under pressure, can't bat and can't make aggressive decisions when it matters. So what's the point of keeping him in the T20I side especially as captain?

It's better to remove him and give a proper chance to Shaheen Afridi. He's already doing well as a captain in the PSL and I m sure he will be a better leader for Pakistan too.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
It is a tough call since you don't want to upturn the apple cart so soon.

But what coach and selectors must decide is, is Agha a t20 player but going through a bad patch or is just not a t20 player.

All indications are that he isn't a t20 player but if they something that he is, then he should be persisted with but his player role.must be clear and we need 2 overs from him allowing us to drop another rellu kattas to play a specialist bat.
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The apples are already spinning on the ground and the cart is broken.
 
Firstly too much is made of non performing captains. Which captains in theirs Asia cup “performed”? Soorya didn’t do any better, Asalanka has been mediocre for years and Litton Das and Jaker Ali didn’t do much either. It is on

Personal performance is one factor l, but you need to judge him on his captaincy. For me, it was a mixed bag, he had some very good moments and some very bad ones. I think he was a good leader for this inexperienced team and seemed to have the backing and of the team.

He does seem someone who is likely to learn from his mistakes, but ultimately it’s up to the management to make a non emotional decision on him.

For years, we’ve had the “give him time” brigade for Babar, but that same brigade will obviously not give Agha that opportunity. I would personally keep him for a couple of series, but I’m not personally invested that he has to be in at all costs.
 
Abid Z said:
Firstly you make this silly point again and again. Agha is far from perfect but he’s a better captain then most in Pak and deserves a longer run. He’s bailed out Pak batting many times just needs a bit of backing and confidence.

He’s turned to Haris Rauf in the India match exactly like he did against Bangladesh. All Harris had to do was bowl wide of off stump Yorkers. That’s not Aghas fault the scatter gun haris lost the plot.

Yes he could contribute more with the bat but he’s a 3 format all rounder. He will bounce back. Just needs confidence and belief. It’s not like potential leaders are lining up.
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On what basis is Agha a better captain than most? What are we basing this on? What tactical nounce, brilliant field placing, bowling change or batting order change or calm temprament under pressure has he shown in his tenure?

Under him in charge we have already lost a T-20 against Zimbabwe, lost 4-1 to NZ in NZ, lost 2-1 to Bangladesh, lost a T20 to Afghanistan and have lost 3 T-20's against India where Pakistan were twice in winning positions. Agha has not looked international quality at all in this Asia Cup, he his reputed to be the best player of spin bowling in Pakistan but Axar, Kuldeep literally toyed with him, he had no attacking shots in his armoury. He was a complete passenger in this side and he was no Mike Brearley as captain either.

This experiment should be over now. Agha is at fault for bringing back Rauf when he got whacked in the 15th over knowing full well he was under pressure and confidence, this is what good T-20 captains do, they immediately take stock of the situation and pull a misfiring bowler out.
 
TheSultan said:
Firstly too much is made of non performing captains. Which captains in theirs Asia cup “performed”? Soorya didn’t do any better, Asalanka has been mediocre for years and Litton Das and Jaker Ali didn’t do much either. It is on

Personal performance is one factor l, but you need to judge him on his captaincy. For me, it was a mixed bag, he had some very good moments and some very bad ones. I think he was a good leader for this inexperienced team and seemed to have the backing and of the team.

He does seem someone who is likely to learn from his mistakes, but ultimately it’s up to the management to make a non emotional decision on him.

For years, we’ve had the “give him time” brigade for Babar, but that same brigade will obviously not give Agha that opportunity. I would personally keep him for a couple of series, but I’m not personally invested that he has to be in at all costs.
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Are we suppossed to be concerned with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka?

We will critique on the Pakistani team and Agha was a complete passenger in this Asia Cup, he did not look international material at all. There was nothing special about his captaincy either.
 
Savak said:
Are we suppossed to be concerned with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka?

We will critique on the Pakistani team and Agha was a complete passenger in this Asia Cup, he did not look international material at all. There was nothing special about his captaincy either.
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ya. SKY was a freaking T20 legend for 2 or 3 years before running into a bad patch. Agha has never done anything in T20 at any level. You can very well appoint sarfraz ahmed as captain and say "JUst look at the captaincy forget about keeping or batting look at SKy, jaker ali". I think pak fans have set the bar very very low.
 
Savak said:
Are we suppossed to be concerned with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka?

We will critique on the Pakistani team and Agha was a complete passenger in this Asia Cup, he did not look international material at all. There was nothing special about his captaincy either.
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That’s not what I’m saying, I said it’s one factor out of a few.

And yes, as I said, there is a good case to be made to remove him. But all this “non performing Captain” is just a very simplistic take.
 
The problem with Agha is that because the middle order was so bad this Asia Cup, Babar is now going to come back and most probably at 3. So if Agha now plays at 4 which is probably his most favourable position then you have two right handed accumulators. He has no game for 5/6 because he doesn’t have the big shots and even if you look at the PSL, he’s done better at 3/4.

This means that even if Pak get off to a flyer then these two will slow down if they bat at 3 and 4. Then you have the issue of where to put Hasan Nawaz/Saim Ayub. Both who are originally openers will be coming in at 5 and 6 so it throws the whole team off balance.

Another issue is that barring Saim, all are right handed batsman and knowing Hesson, he will want a lefty to come in between Babar and Ayub.

His captaincy was decent but he did make a few tactical errors in the crunch games against India. He is inexperienced as a captain so he can be let off for that for now however, he will need to get his form back ASAP to stay in the team. A non-performing captain will not be able to stay in the team for too long.
 
Savak said:
On what basis is Agha a better captain than most? What are we basing this on? What tactical nounce, brilliant field placing, bowling change or batting order change or calm temprament under pressure has he shown in his tenure?

Under him in charge we have already lost a T-20 against Zimbabwe, lost 4-1 to NZ in NZ, lost 2-1 to Bangladesh, lost a T20 to Afghanistan and have lost 3 T-20's against India where Pakistan were twice in winning positions. Agha has not looked international quality at all in this Asia Cup, he his reputed to be the best player of spin bowling in Pakistan but Axar, Kuldeep literally toyed with him, he had no attacking shots in his armoury. He was a complete passenger in this side and he was no Mike Brearley as captain either.

This experiment should be over now. Agha is at fault for bringing back Rauf when he got whacked in the 15th over knowing full well he was under pressure and confidence, this is what good T-20 captains do, they immediately take stock of the situation and pull a misfiring bowler out.
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We don’t lose because of bad captaincy. That’s just one factor. We lose for a multitude of reasons that are too long to go into. Lots of parts have to click to make Pak a top team.
 
Savak said:
Reflects the state of the country. Who cares about results, the blue eyed boys will remain in charge.
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Who do you want captaining the side?

What’s the point of crying if you don’t have a worthy solution?
 
Top 10 MVPs in Asia cup. Agha is 79th in this list. Basically ran on the back of Shaheen's performance and Saim's bowling.


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Asif321 said:
No that’s stupid . He has just started . Even I don’t like his decisions but he should lead Pakistan in Wt20 . Then let’s see . If worst ever captain of Pakistan Babar can get 5 years . Agha deserves till WT20
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Agha will all his faults actually looked like captain on field......
 
Devadwal said:
It's right time to take a decision because Agha do not deserve a place in any T20 team. :kp
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Its not indian team where jaiswal and iyer are sitting outside.....I will take salman agha as captain 10 out of 10 times for 2026 t20 world cup...the team gel really well under him....winning and losing is part of game...he actually looked like captain...
 
Savak said:
Worthy Solution? The likes of Shaheen and Shadab have PSL titles on their resume.
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Shaheen I don’t mind, but he will need to rotate, so who will be captain then.

If Shadab is the captain then you’re gonna be right back to the “non performing captain” thing. Should Shadab even be in the team?

Personally I don’t actually mind either of Shaheen or Shadab.

And I don’t mind Agha either. He’s shown me enough to have another couple of series.
 
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