No one cares about how likeable someone is if they can get the job done. Do you think people like Amir for his spot fixing rather than his bowling skills which won Pakistan 2 x ICC tournaments?
You see this is exactly what I mean when I say Misbah has turned Pakistan cricket so soft and delicate. There are snowflakes everywhere and cakes are being cut for every non-event.
You know I can debunk the whole Misbah was Pakistan's best captain but was unlucky to have a nothing team whereas sarfraz was lucky to have a team of Psl all stars.
First of 2007-2011: We flunked one tournament but won 2009, and came as semi finalist in 2010, and in 2011 as well as finalist in 2007 meaning Pakistan before misbah's era was atleast a competent team to reach semi or finals on most occasions.
Then from 2012 to 2015, not only have we failed to win Any icc trophy, only time we have reached a semi final was under hafeez's leadership in t20 not misbah. And no asia cup doesn't count, as for beating India, they were in a transition phase and didn't care, India proceeded to humiliate Pakistan team Black and blue from 2013 to 2015 with us beating them only once via 1 wicket in 2014.
Now for the whole nothing team:
For 2015 these were our options for world cup.
Openers:-
1) Azhar Ali: Weird that he wasnt opening despite being Misbah's successor and our 2nd best test bat, was far far superior to shehzad and jamshed lol.
2) Sarfraz:- Ik he opened later but on what basis was jamshed opening over the guy who was pur star scorer in the Australian and NZ series, and why even have Umar akmal keep?
3) Sami Aslam:- He literally came onto the scene against Bangladesh and did was better at opening them shehzad and jamshed, yet was dropped after one game and soon as he was, his performance in domestic and international drops.
Just to let you know before his debut where he struck at 90+ when pur joke openers were striking at 70, sami aslam was our best domestic performer for years, consistently topping charts and averaging 50 with a strike rate of 100.
4) Sharjeel: He lost form a bit, but hilarious considering jamshed couldn't even reach double digit scores by 2015, literally we've been historically poor in Australia and Sharjeel had a good record their, much better then shehzad and jamshed as openers.
5) Fakhar: Was in the form of his life in domestics, should have made his debut 2 years earlier.
Middle Order
1) Fawad Alam: I dont like fawad, but he was our top scorer in 2014 per matches( Yes ik shehzad acored more but thats why i said per matches, Fawad played the least matches in 2014 and still achiebd 2nd averaging 42 amd a sr of 80), in asia cup his 77 and 100 scores were crucial despite no 5 not being a hreat positoon for him, dont know why he wasnt frontline over younis.
Before people complain Younis cheated his way in, If misbah was the competent goat captain that people say he is, he would have the Guts to instantly boot YK out or simply not play him, what would YK even do? Retire, like okay bye bye ya medicore odi junkie.
2) Sohaib Malik: On malik's return he hit a century in 2016 and a 236 in test before retiring, and was a decent performer utpill 2017, Afterwards he was a spent force ut his 2015-2016 days would have been perfect, plus hafeez was injured so malik an allrounder replacing him would be good, would also compliment haris sohail who wasn't in the best of form but looked upto malik at the time.
3) Babar Azam: Babar before his 2018 stat pad nonsense actually use to play for the crest on his chest during 2016-2017, literally he was the 2md best performer in domestic only behind sami aslam amd could have been a good performer considering Babar during his early days was pretty good at no 3 and no 4.
We had such a bad batting line up, I'd have taken Babar over umar considering Babar at that time would be 21 and was in good form, he could have been a good investment during that era, its not like the team that misbah choose was remotely competent.
4) Imad waseem: literally was in the form of his life, in 2016 on English soil he was the only batsmen to not get our scoring multiple half centuries during this time, He could have been a good no 6 considering maqsood was such a joke.
Otherwise since misbah is captain he has to play in the middle order, and afridi is fine ig, although I'd move afridi to no 8 with no 9, 10 and 11 being pacers.
Malik, Afridi and Imad spin trio would be fine.
Bowlers
1) Hasan ali: Was in the form of his life during this period, is a has been now but he was available and was on domestic fire.
2) Zafar gohar: Suprised he never got called up, Could have been the specialist spinner we needed over yasir Shah lol considering he's young as well.
3) Rumman raess: Don't know why he was left out for so long amd isn't considered, I don't know what happened to him.
Also honorable mention: Abid Ali before his heart attack could have been a good option, he was waiting for years before mickey and sarfraz decided to try him out.
^^ based of all these options: how on earth can you claim misbah had a nothing team?
No one told Misbah to take Younis, shehzad, Jamshed, rahat Ali, Ehsan adil, Umar akmal, Maqsood etc etc, his fault for not taking the best performers from 2015.
Edit: BTW
@topspin After reading this expect replies like sami aslam was horrible or sarfraz is horrible even though this was 2015 when they were in the prime of their lives, people will be shoving 2024 on me lol.
. So stupid.
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