Nonsense to say he's a poor tactician. He virtually talked Saeed Ajmal through every ball in the crucial penultimate over against South Africa in the 2nd ODI in 2013 that won us win a series in SA for the first time ever.
A poor tactician doesn't lead his domestic teams to numerous tournament victories. His captaining of spinners has generally been excellent as was his captaincy defending low totals in the 2015 WC.
This forum can be infuriating when people with little understanding of the game throw out unsubstianted, blanket statements like that.
A few games here and there do not make a good tactician.
A good tactician should also have the capability to plan for the future which Misbah severely lacked.
Why did Azhar suddenly become captain after the WC - when he had not even been in the squad for 2 years?
Why did it take so long for Haris to make his ODI debut when our middle order had been ailing for so long with the likes Amin, Asad Shafiq consistenly playing in our ODI starting XI?
Why did Yasir not debut earlier when Ajmal was at his peak instead of playing mediocrity like Abdur Rehman?
Why is Misbah pushing for the selection of Iftikhar Ahmed in our Test XI?
Regarding the WC - the only low total we defended that could be attributed to Misbah's captaincy was the game vs SAF (even then his poor batting was the reason we got to a low total in the first place). We were miserably poor against Zimbabwe and only got bailed out due to Wahab. Quite frankly, we outbatted UAE and Ireland in games where Misbah did next to nothing and were won due to Shehzad, Sarfraz, Haris and Maqsood's contributions. The less said about the India game the better..
Misbah did get it right by playing 4 pacers for most of the WC but his defensive field settings were questionable at best. He should have taken the batting powerplays much earlier in several games including the QF vs Australia. As a batsman, he should have been batting at 3 or 4 throughout the WC and accelerated once settled in rather than hide at number 5.
All in all - our ODI team greatly regressed under him. For those who point out Maqsood, Umer Akmal and Shehzad's loss of form being the reasons - it is the captains responsibility to motivate his players and spend time with them to develop their game.
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