Wow, there’s some generous rewriting of history here.
Imad didn’t lead KK to the PSL title because of some captaincy mastery. KK get into the playoffs based on the weight of Babar’s runs, Sharjeel’s cameos, Amir and Jordan’s performances.
They then got lucky with the season break because of covid. At the time, Multan were absolutely demolishing everyone.
The season then breaks for Covid and the world turns upside down.
In the meantime, Dean Jones sadly passes away and that gives further impetus for the KK boys to win it for ‘Ustad’.
The PSL then comes back for the playoffs, to empty stadia with undercooked pitches.
Multan lose all their main overseas guys to availability as well.
Karachi win the toss everytime on stodgy pitches and then chase down underwhelming totals Vs undercooked 2nd XIs. Credit to them for doing that, but it was not done via some exceptional captaincy.
Thereby lies my point. Imad is not an exceptional captain. He’s not a tangible improvement over Babar, even if he’s a marginal one. His captaincy in this PSL has underlined that. Had he been aggressive w/ his bowling plans and lost, I would applauded him. But he kept it painfully safe.
I’ve never questioned Imad’s ability and merit in being in the T20 squad, but his captaincy abilities are PR.