In Tests I'll take anyone over this impatient, non-performing nothing of a player Sarfraz.
But realistically I can see there are not too many candidates who make the playing xi on merit and are captaincy material. Shan and Azhar are two names being spoken of, Shan hasn't justified is his place in the side yet he had an o.k. SA tour and that's about it. If he starts performing and becomes a permanent fixture he can be looked at.
Azhar on the other hand could turn out like Misbah, a poor ODI captain but may be just the man for the Test Job. However, his form in the past year or so has not been the best. He's struggled and looked in decline. Would be a risk to give him captaincy.
Another person people have been saying and he probably is the best captain to make for the Test Format is Asad Shafiq. However we can't do what we did with Sarfraz and make someone captain on the basis of their captaincy skills alone. I haven't even ever seen Asad captain a match, so I'm not sure how good of a captain he really is maybe it's just all bluff and he actually ain't good at that either. Most importantly Asad after a decade of investment still averages below 40 so dude doesn't even deserve to be close to the team let alone captain.
Then we have some youngsters like Babar, Imam, and Haris. Imam is still finding his feet in the longest format however he should come good soon. Can't make him Test Captain yet. Babar has finally started to score some runs in Test so we should just leave him alone and let him become the Greatest Pakistani Batsman of all time. Finally we have Haris he makes the team on merit but I'm not sure if he has any captaincy experience he doesn't seem like a guy to lead the national team.
That leaves us to the bowlers. We don't have a single bowlers who looks like a captain and could lead a team. Abbas, Hasan (who should be dropped anyways but he's been apart of our squad recently) Shaheen, Shadab, Yasir none of these guys can be made captain, like let's just be real. The only bowler who could of was Amir and he retired and plus he only made the team on merit in certain conditions anyways so yeah.
After review of all the players it has dawned on me even more what a BIG LOSS Misbah and Younis have been. To think people were clamoring for these guys to retire lol, well guys we can't even beat the weakest Sri Lankan, and Australian teams in UAE anymore.
So yeah the above options are not ideal but man I'll take anyone over Sarfraz it just disgusts me what he's done to our Test Team combined with Mickey.
