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"Salman Ali Agha is the weakest link in the team": Shoaib Akhtar

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Shoaib Akhtar, who is a part of cricket analysis panel for the Asia Cup 2025 for PTV Sports, questions Salman Ali Agha as the captain. He said:

“I am very surprised by the coach (Mike Hesson). As far as the captain, he doesn’t know anything anyways (usko kuch patha nahi hai), what is he captaining, what is he playing in the middle,”

“He is the weakest link of the team. Does he deserve to play in the spot he is playing? No one will discuss this. He is the weakest link in the middle. What does he do? Tell me? He comes at No.6 and for India, you have Hardik Pandya or Tilak coming there. Karo comparison.

“Good boy is teek hai, fine with me, so captain is fine with me – but what does he produce as a talent?”
 
He miscalculated & shouldn’t have come in to Bat when he did & had a terrible day on the field, although with limited resources; a bit harsh from Akhtar because our previous leaders were massively worse.
 
Usman Chadda said:
He won't last till T20WC 2026, I think Shaheen or Shadab will take up the captaincy.
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Which will be another disaster. The story of Pakistan cricket has been from bad to worse. Both shaheen and Shadab are brainless who can’t even be in the team on merit.

There’s only one captaincy material and that’s Fakhar. Make him captain till next year’s World Cup. Remove the bits and pieces players. Go for players with assured role and expectation.
 
chinaman00 said:
Which will be another disaster. The story of Pakistan cricket has been from bad to worse. Both shaheen and Shadab are brainless who can’t even be in the team on merit.

There’s only one captaincy material and that’s Fakhar. Make him captain till next year’s World Cup. Remove the bits and pieces players. Go for players with assured role and expectation.
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Shaheen has turned into a very useful allrounder
 
Absolutely he's not a t20 player at all it was a blunder by the management to make him a captain as well
 
Akhtar talks nonsense. The whole cricket show he features on is ridiculous as Akhtar takes too much of the screen time talking nonsense.

Misbah, Malik and Bazid talk very logically.

Im impressed by Malik infact as he was able to tell by aghas leg movement that Agha is not being to read the spinners hands.

Bazid is very good aswell because Bazod doesnt make outladish statements agaianst the coach or captain and just talks about the tactics applied
 
Heard some of his clips yesterday. As usual, it was a word salad.

Coach doesn’t know anything. Agha doesn’t know anything. Yet did not offer a single solution.

In fact, he was pushing for inclusion of Hassan Ali 😂

One of the worst analysts for sure
 
I saw the video now, and Akhtar is right, its a shame cuz it seemed like Salman had some promise initially but it appears he is just another weak and timid player, and making wrong decisions as well.
 
Ball Blazer said:
Shoaib Akhtar, who is a part of cricket analysis panel for the Asia Cup 2025 for PTV Sports, questions Salman Ali Agha as the captain. He said:

“I am very surprised by the coach (Mike Hesson). As far as the captain, he doesn’t know anything anyways (usko kuch patha nahi hai), what is he captaining, what is he playing in the middle,”

“He is the weakest link of the team. Does he deserve to play in the spot he is playing? No one will discuss this. He is the weakest link in the middle. What does he do? Tell me? He comes at No.6 and for India, you have Hardik Pandya or Tilak coming there. Karo comparison.

“Good boy is teek hai, fine with me, so captain is fine with me – but what does he produce as a talent?”
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Absolute correct but it wasnt his choice to becomr kaptaaan i been saying all along he doesnt deserve a place on any format although has done half decent in red ball but will not last for sure
 
I was backing Agha as a captain but now I'm convinced he is misfit in T20. I don't usually agree with Shoaib Akhter because he always talks non sense but this time i second his statement.
 
Who is not a weak link in the Pakistan team? It seems like Pakistan ex-players always keep saying this player would have made a difference, that player would have made the difference but when those players make it to the XI and fail, they will change their tune. The reason why Pakistan team has been on a downward slope is because the fans and the experts think that one player here or there will magically change the outcome. The problem is that it is not going to happen that way. You need planning for years developing a team and players. Pakistan over the years have never invested in player development. There is only lots of talks about how the country is overflowing with talent and the only reason the team is losing is because wrong players are selected. But again the players the fans and experts want get picked the team still loses. Now the ones you guys wanted dropped come back again and fail again and then the selectors go back to the players they replaced. It is a vicious cycle which never ends.

I will tell you that Pakistan winning Asia Cup beating India or any other team will not change anything, the same way 2017 Champions Trophy did not and the "152/0" which the fans so fondly keep pointing out did not. Unless the system invests in proper player development and improvement, Pakistan is going to keep repeating the same mistakes no matter how many random wins they notch up, they would never have any consistency.
 
chinaman00 said:
Which will be another disaster. The story of Pakistan cricket has been from bad to worse. Both shaheen and Shadab are brainless who can’t even be in the team on merit.

There’s only one captaincy material and that’s Fakhar. Make him captain till next year’s World Cup. Remove the bits and pieces players. Go for players with assured role and expectation.
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Fakhar is struggling from his groin injury for quite some time. .unfortunately its seems he won.t last long.
 
Akhtar is talking nonsense as usual, all his statements are full of drama with sarcastic comments on PCB & players. Yes Salman has not scored consistently but at same time all main batsman & bowlers have also failed consistently like Saim, Fakhar, Hassan Nawaz, Haris, Shaheen, Rauf, Abrar

Akhtar is singling out Salman with such statement just to get some attention
 
Ali Active said:
Captaincy will go with shaheen or shadab after asia cup
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It's common knowledge Shadab was supposed to be captain, but he got injured and couldn't play in the past few months which has delayed the change.

I doubt Naqvi goes back to Shaheen considering the history, so the next option in PCB's books will always be Shadab. I'm not sure Shadab himself justifies his place in the team.
 
amazing how short people’s memories are. Just a month ago he hit 50’s. Helped win Odi series in South Africa. Was instrumental against England in test series last year with good gritty runs.

Now he’s been saddled with a young non performing team. Yes the expectation is that as a senior player he will lead from the front and hit important runs. But this is a false expectation of a new captain with a young team. He needs time to grow into the role. In a few months yes you can say he’s the weak link but right now the team needs to stick together and find a way to win. This is by far the toughest competition of most of their careers and they don’t have any experience to fall back on.

I really expected more from SSA and Saim.(from their main roles ) They’ve been playing for a long time now. Need to support the captain.
 
I don't take Shoaib seriously at all. It seems like these retired guys are always trying to put others down just to make themselves look better.

Remember when he said Sarfaraz wasn’t capable? or Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan weren’t good enough? Now it’s Salman's turn to get bashed.

Honestly I’m getting tired of hearing there’s no superstar anymore or there is no talent and these guys were the best in their time... He might be the fastest bowler of all time but he also has one of the biggest superiority complexes I've ever seen...
 
Snowflake said:
Heard some of his clips yesterday. As usual, it was a word salad.

Coach doesn’t know anything. Agha doesn’t know anything. Yet did not offer a single solution.

In fact, he was pushing for inclusion of Hassan Ali 😂

One of the worst analysts for sure
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If the pitch behaves like last match, hasan ali isnt a bad shout against india.
 
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