Re: “Defensive mindset snatches defeat from jaws of victory” - Imran Khan
Salman Butt isn’t as bad as you are suggesting. He has scored two memorable hundreds to date - a test hundred in Australia in Jan. 2005 http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=1749 and a sparkling one-day hundred when chasing a formidable 292 at Eden Gardens, Calcutta in the platinum jubilee game against India in Nov. 2004 http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard_ODI.asp?MatchCode=2289
Yes he did go thru a rough patch in early 2006 (who does n’t) but I am certain that if Pakistan had taken him to SA instead of Imran Farhat, he would have done better than Farhat.