The problem with Pakistan is they never try anyone (or give them ample opportunity when they do pick them) when they have a chance E.g Vs Afghanistan or the Nepal match.
Then when they are about to crash out of a tournament they finally make the call. Like bringing Haris in vs SA in the last World Cup. They were very lucky that Haris came off in that game and then the next couple of games including the semi final.
I.e they won’t try to change until it’s too late and then hope to fluke the trial and error in the middle of an ICC tournament.
I mean tbf, sarfraz did and changed alot. He immediately discarded Ahmed shehzad, gave abid Ali and fakhar opening slots amd was even trying to discard imam lol.
He instantly played babar at no 3, Babar was playing ar no 6 before sarfraz came into captaincy.
Amd everyone thinks sarfraz is selfish for shifting himself up and down the order, sometimes at no 4, other times even below hasan Ali, don't get how that's selfish, would you rather have rizwan no 4 tantrums?
Personally as a player I don't rate sarfraz that high, I think he's a decent bat that's all, but his psl victory followed by CT victory wasn't a fluke. He led the team well.
Even in 2019, besides that freak West indies defeat, we would have made the SF otherwise because we literally beat NZ and England lol.
Thing about sarfraz's captaincy was that he was quick to try players and he never stuck by a formula. He kept switching bowlers up. Just watch his warm up game in 2019 and compare babar's warm up game today.
Babar is still doing this stupid bowl by the formula book, Usama literally got 2 wickets, so the ideal scenario would be to bowl nawaz and shadab or chacha, yes their all trash bowlers but atleast the spin strategy seems to be working. What does babar do?
He bowls waseem again because it's time for waseem to bowl in his blueprint formula head


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Misbah was nepotistic, clearly favouring his buddies but he was one heck of captain in terms of restricting teams to chase totals due to his excellent field setting, game awareness and bowler rotation.
Sarfraz was the best of both worlds by switching things up at every corner. Imad waseem would be a perfect candidate to lead following sarfi.
Babar is somehow even worse then misbah ong, Nepotistic but unlike misbah he's also clueless.