Warning: This post will be long, read at your own pace .
2003, 2004 and 2007, I was 2,3 and 6 years old round about at the time, so I have no clue about that era.
My first time ever watching cricket or understanding the game was In 2010 wc and my first ever match that I watched was Australia vs Pakistan semi final. After that I barely was interested until 2011 wc where I started watching frequently.
So I can comment in 2011 aka one year before misbah and 2017, one year after azhar ali(Misbah's successor)
2011 Afridi team deapite being poor on paper was a gelled unit that punched massively > Its weight, they beat probably the strongest ir 2nd strongest Sri lankan team in history, Ended Australia's unbeaten streak granted 2011 Australia was the weakest aussie unit of all time, and won every match minus a crushing MZ defeat.
It required India the strongest tournament team to get rid of em, but multiple things cost us that day, YK dropping catches, shafiq being a failure in odi as usual dint know why misabh forwarded your oozing with talent hero, and misbah being infamous for Mohali.
Afterwards Misbah took a similar unit and botched and butchered it beyond belief. Misbah era was the worst era of Pakistan white ball cricket as far as I'm aware often being dubbed as the dark days.
Afterwards 2017 was a recovery with a team being filled with psl superstars. 2018-2019 aren't as bad as people make it out to be. We were always a medicore team that managed to somehow punch > our weight and get lucky in 2 matches, however we weren't as bad as people overexagurrate. The 2018-2019 period resulted in losses but alot of experimentation with abid, Imam, Rizwan, Nawaz, Shaheen, and various other players coming into the fold,
We yielded poor results but this period features the most no of experimentation we ever had which was a step in the right direction, 2019 wc campaign wasn't that bad either, yes we flunked West Indies, but we overall played well, we lost to the teams that we obviously lose to like India, But we beat the 2 finalists of the tournament and came well and good. We weren't realistically ever winning, that wc had 2019 England on the wall, either that or one of NZ or Australia would snatch it.
Post 2019 however thanks to misbah and Babar is a horror show.
In terms of experimentation old horses rather then fresh blood was brought back. With the likes of akmal, Irfan, Shehzad, chacha(who's a 40+ dinosaur), Shan(Although for shan I think it's pcb nepotism), being brought back and it yielded beyond pathetic results .
From 2019-2023 the imam-Fakhar opening combo didn't change even though other openers better then imam could have been tried during this period, The likes of khusdil Shah, Asif Ali, chacha became mainstay with more failures like nawaz becoming mainstay as well.
Their was no planning on creating a pool of backups, only now we've decided to create a pool via kakul camp.
Furthermore results were beyond abysmal, 2022 wc was a joke for Babar and rizwan and badly exposed the opening combo misbah envisioned, heck this pindi series alone is exposing this combo for the millionth time but obviously you guys are waiting for Babar and rizwan to somehow score thay 100 against c string and then hold onto it for another decade when they fail another 100x.
2023 wc was a horror show, with the mawaz tu hai mera match winner nonsense failing, and the lack of overall experimentation but last minute panicks on Abdullah and saud also just being a hilarious fail on why Babar is terrible at building a cohesive unit.
This tour itself is failing, A weakened NZ side is competing against full srrength Pakistan at their home venue with babar and rizwan as well as the bowlers being badly badly exposed, Shadab as a spinner being exposed again, mot like he wasn't at 2023 lol and chacha also flunking.
Babar's stats against Bracewell, Kuldeep, and any decent spinner should have already expised the reality on your sher, and misbah's horrific results as captain and coach should have exposed the reality as well.
Their is no argument to be had. 2017-2019 was the only era compelty free from misbah's influence. And in thay era alone despite alot of fullbacks, it was the only era which yielded an icc victory and featured the biggest no of experimentation such shaheen, Imad opening bowling in t20, rizwan's introduction etc which are still valid today.
As much as you hate anything non misbah related, your Babar sher at permanent no 3 thanks to mickey, Rizwan's introduced as a permanent backup keeper, Shaheen’s introduction, imad wasim opening the bowling, Shadab's introduction all these main stayers came during the sarfraz era. And era that you mock for 2018 lol.
