A very poor post devoid of facts. If I could muster the energy to dissect the logical fallacies in your post and poor facts:
1. Inzamam moved down the order first for Ijaz and later for MoYo, both were top-order players. Yet you choose to criticize them for hiding down the order while giving Younis a free pass.
2. I've said on record on my times that the best batsman in the team should bat at 3 in Tests. I have criticized Tendulkar for it and I am also critical of Kohli and Root. Both are the best batsmen in their team and they need to bat at 3, rather than hide down the order.
3. Younis has a great record in the fourth innings because he's an outstanding player of spin and his deficiencies agai and pacers is also masked on a day 5 pitch. It has nothing to do with guts.
Ijaz used to be a number 6,7 batsman and only moved to 3 because inzi didnt want to bat there.
You might have advocated for the best batsmen to bat at 3 but I doubt that you have called sachin or kohli as being cowards to have stuck to no. 4
Why would you? Coz if you do, you will lose your perspective and standing on this forum
And by the way, younis batted at 3 during his stint as captain so you cant attribute his demotion to 4 as his own doing. He could hv promoted anybody else to number 3 like in 2005' sydney; yousuf brought yasir hameed, a top order player into the xi to sheath himself rather than bringing a middle order player in asim kamal as inzi's replacement.
What if misbah wants to sheath him from the new ball.
What if the team management feels and rightly so that azhar's weakness against spin and solidity against pace can make him a better option at 3 than 4?
Coming to tge 4th innings debate
For reference, your view of amla as a choker because he cant handle the pressure of knockout games was even discussed on the opera show, such is its fame.
So that means, you do rate pressure of the occasion as a determining factor in gauging somebody's skills.
So why do you dispel younis and his 4th innings knocks?
Forget that he smiles and is called saintly.
Performing in the 4th innings doesnt only have to deal with the skill to play spin. You have to have the marbles to handle pressure of the 4th innings.
Were tendulkar, moyo lesser players of spin than younis? Why dont they boast a record like yk if all it takes is just skill?
Once again you lose track and start arguing about how he is a weak player of pace and that his deficiencies get masked.
Oo bhaiii, when did I contest this claim?
I agree that he has his frailties against pace.
But do you deny that scoring in the 4th innings requires no extra guts, pressure?
I dont see how one can.
You called him cowardly but I am afraid, a coward fails to hold his own in pressure situations, let alone outperform all his contemporaries.
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