Timing of Mohammad Hafeez's retirement...

[Abdullah719]

Waiting to see if anyone votes for 'too early'

 

[Abdullah Rabbani]

Just for attention he knows management drop him for SA tour

 

[Finisher]

Should have retired after the Champions Trophy win

 

[ShahidDar08]

Should retire from all forms of the cricket.

 

[Muhammad10]

Strategically, timed to perfection.

 

[UN talkz]

Should have retired after World Test Championship, Pak needed his experience there, since he is blessed in all "faucets" of the game

 

[YousafTheBeast]

Should’ve retired after the 2nd test to allow someone else to settle in for SA tour

 

[Amjid Javed]

Selfish retirement just so that he can get a guard of honour when he makes a pair in the 2nd inns.

 

[ahmadharis1]

If he knew he was going to retire, ideally he would have done it after the Australia series so we can use this series to test some new blood before south africa

 

[The Viper]

Not great timing tbh. Maybe he should have retired after second test as he knew he was playing bad.

 

[The Viper]

Something else to consider is that we don’t really have a great pool of players. Selecting a new opener for the SA tour is quite unfair. Ideally they should have had a game or two prior to the series.

 

[MMHS]

I think, it’s perfectly timed, timing was his only asset & he proved it once more.

Professor indeed is the smartest cricketer in PAK, for that he perfectly understood PCB’s selection policy - those who could bring him in Test side for T20 performance, can easily drop him from LO team based on Test performance.

I hope, he won’t unretire after the SAF tour is over.

 

[Hasan123]

I think, it’s perfectly timed, timing was his only asset & he proved it once more.

Professor indeed is the smartest cricketer in PAK, for that he perfectly understood PCB’s selection policy - those who could bring him in Test side for T20 performance, can easily drop him from LO team based on Test performance.

I hope, he won’t unretire after the SAF tour is over.

Came here to post this, his decision has nothing to do with giving others a chance. Done to protect his LO place.

 

[nextover666666]

Happy that he retired but his timing is bad should have waited until this series concluded

 

[gazza619]

Happy that he retired but his timing is bad should have waited until this series concluded

Wouldnt have received the possible guard of honour otherwise...?

 

[badsha001]

Wouldnt have received the possible guard of honour otherwise...?

so now any aira ghaira will receive guard of honor?

 

[PakLFC]

It was the right time for the curtain to fall. Any later we'd be complaining it's to near the World Cup.

 

[coy0607]

considering his performances, and how abrupt this announcement is - it is clear that even Hafeez thinks its too late

that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a comeback after the SA tour

 

[QalandarFan]

A couple decades to early if you ask me, Hafeez Sobers could have continued for another 50 years if you ask me. I guess he wants to focus on LOI Cricket only to bad, we would have whitewashed SA if Hafeez Sobers was playing. Oh well....

 

[hadi123]

Good timing. Was woefully out of form and ahead of the SA series where he would face his old foe Dale Steyn it would have been painful.

 

[topspin]

We must also not forget courtesy of his friend and preceding captain Misbah, he was able to play for so long despite his mediocrity.

 

[New Yorker]

Waiting to see if anyone votes for 'too early'

In his own inimitable fashion. Hafeez succeeded in being all at once too late and too early. Too late by 5-6 years, by any reasonable, non PCB standard, certainly at least a series too late by now, having deprived us of an opportunity to test another opener before South Africa. But also too early, by at least an innings, showing himself to be a confidence man in the double sense of the term, demonstrating that he was living on borrowed time, and making the coach and selectors look foolish for persisting with him. Which humiliation they surely deserve. Can we say that in his sense of occasion, Hafeez was blessed in both facets of untimeliness?

 

[reversehook]

Dale Steyn will now have 6 less wkts at the end of pak vs sa series...

 

[aukhan]

Should have announced publicly on the morning of 5th day.