1st ODI Pakistan vs Australia @ Brisbane, Jan 22, 2010

GA, I have always felt that Younis was not a very gifted ODI player. He was above average (at time below average) but a very hard working player. Off late he has clearly been struggling in the limited over format of the game not only T20 but also ODI.

I am not sure how closely you have seen his performance in ODIs in 2009 but he was struggling to cross double figures and even when he was crossing double figures he was wasting so many balls that it was putting unneccesary pressure on rest of the batsmen.

His stats were not really too impressive for 2009 which suggest that he needs to decide soon on his future as an ODI player.

2009: 19 games, 420 runs, 22 average, 2 meaningless half centuries against Sri Lanka when they have already won the ODI series against us.

I sincerely hope that I am wrong in my analysis of YK and of what I have seen in 2009 and hope he makes a strong comeback and give much needed support to our middle order. If not then in my view he needs to focus primarily on Test matches for the remaining years of his career.