If still don't get it then you won't get it ever - I can't make someone awaken, who is pretending to be slept. Sammy, Afridi, Hogg, Nehra back fired, so we are back to Azhar - it's called running in circles.
One for the last time, you can disagree with that. AR is finished as a cricketer - you are trolling yourself calling him 38 (39 actually, by next PSL). Last he played AFG T20 league where they put him at 8 and his only over went for 14 ..... He had retired from cricket, which was a condition for his NOC at Masters league. Then he joined PSL as coach. The point that you are pretending not to understand is that Mahmood played in County as latest as July 2016 (T20, FC in 2014), then he moved to coaching and still sticking to that - he hasn't even tried to make a GIG in cricket as player again. It's quite possible for players coaching to make a gig as a player simultaneously; but it's stupid to use that as an example where a retired player is wishing to come back as player from coaching career.
Your last line is pure nonsense, which I believe you also do realize, therefore I don't need to explain it. Few weeks back Wasim & Waquar played some T10s, though those were exhibition matches, but they did pretty well ....
I understand from where the issue started in my post, and it's forcing you to keep dragging it - among few others, I did mention Sarfraz's name. Truth is, that is one of the ace Razzak is holding for his latest khoaish - good terms with Sarfraz; impact of which, I don't think I need to explain with examples here in PP. Read from first to last of my response in each of your posts, whatever you brought, you got answer for that - next time, please bring someone else apart from the 5/6 players already mentioned.
Razzak can indeed play in PSL - if Asad can open in T20 regularly, and Anwar Ali can play all 11 games, while top 2 U25 players of Country caring drinks for whole PSL, then everything is possible in that QG team Captained by Sarfraz, coached by Moin and owned by Nadeem Omer (I don't know the guy, but do know the other 2). My point was, it'll be a bad precedence in PSL - obsolete oldies using their contacts to come back from retirement and earn a contract, depriving younger players. Obviously Razzak can't make it as emerging .............
Misbah is forcing his way for a Platinum contract - that wasn't enough, so we need Razzak to make a come back to prove the point - indeed a great topic to argue.
Well once again you fail to get my point, Hafeez, Misbah, Tanvir, Pietersen, Hodge, Hogg, Smith, Watson, Sangakarra, Akmal,
All playing in the wee years of their 30s (except misbah). These players have been playing in t20 leagues around the world. Now if you can't see the fact that these players are the only ones playing, what is harming you to see one more added. THese names are not going anywhere anytime soon. Razzaq is an ATG allrounder, and would be amazing in t20s as a player, had Afridi not taken his limelight as a player, and then as a captain. PCB have done him hard, and have largely ignored him. Before the berth of PSL, he could have served Pakistan cricket a good 2-3 till the 2011 world cup, we persisted with Malik (also a failure like Razzaq) but got rid of Razzaq because of he didn't get along with PCB board members. Now PSL is a league for Pakistanis, its got Pakistan written all over it. PCB owe it to Razzaq to give him a final opportunity in his career as a player, because he didnt get the credit he deserves as a player, despite being a more consistent performer than Afridi.
Yes Afridi, post 2009 world cups show no performance at all, he has largely been a failure in both ODIs and t20s, yet only played due to his reputation. A player like Razzaq may have sucked more than Afridi, but I fail to see any arguement in the fact that a hopping Darren Sammy, and a mistiming Afridi can be worse off than Abdur Razzaq... who can genuinely clear the fence as good, if not better than these players.
He is not an outsider, he is a Pakistani. A Pakistani player asking to play his league.... he is not talking about a foreign league but a local one. If it was BPL, or BBL we would be really talking about a dilution of the standard.
This is the PSL, the batting talent is already very shallow, in 3 tournaments we have seen a handful of performers get to the top because of the form they brought in. So much that Akmals, and Shehzads made it to the Pakistan team.
In the first PSL you got Sharjeel, second PSL you got a rejuvenated Kamran Akmal and Fakhar Zaman, in the 3rd PSL you received 2-3 names like talat, Salman or Asif Ali.
They haven't done anything outstanding, but still despite all that they did get selected. By outstanding I mean I didn't see any of them chase down a total of 200 singlehandedly, nor did they guide the team to an outstanding total. We just saw them getting their teams to decent totals which made them fighting totals nothing more.
Sanga, Watson, Malik, Kamran, Ronchi, Pollard, Pieterson are the still the top players of the PSL. They have done really well, I haven't seen any player from Pakistan in all 3 formats made an impact like Kamran has so regulary and so on a consistent basis.
So we are at a really long shot from saying, we are producing WORLD CLASS talent in the PSL. None of them have set the stage alight as batsmen. Most of the teams usually rely foreign players or Kamran akmal to take them home.
Now is this the standard that you are really worried about diluting? A standard that sees no team chase down 200. A tournament where teams can't chase down totals if they are numerous Pakistani players in them (i,e Lahore Qalandars). A tournament where Kamran Akmal is a beast of a player must have a really low standard.
A tournament where a player can captain the side hopping around for most of his games. Or a star player like Afridi, who is more than 40, has a belly out, makes big bucks, but can't even finish a game for his team,
Look around the PSL, it is a tournament of has-beens. It will not chase anytime soon, since we need these players to fill our International quota of players. none of the big guys are still partcipating in our league, so we will only see these names. Don't think an Abdur Razzaq will really dilute the standard when we really scraping the bottom in terms of the batting display we have seen there.
