I think its good Inzi is the Captain. Atleast he's bringing good luck to the team (I mean after getting back his performance) cuz the last 5 ODI he played he won the toss 4 out of 5. :D
A www.bbcurdu.com poll about the captainship of Pakistani Cricket team. Near to perfect split infact more people are saying NO then YES so far.
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Why did Rashid Latif have to go?
*Wisden’s Asian View by Kamran Abbasi - September 26, 2003 *
The Pakistan Cricket Board trumpeted a new era after the World Cup. There were promises of consistency, and even the whiff of meritocracy. One of the most impressive statements was about the captaincy. Rashid Latif would lead the team for a year, and in the process groom a successor who, according to the chairman of selectors Aamir Sohail, would be Yousuf Youhana, the new vice-captain. Sticking to this plan, of course, was too much to ask. As an eminent psychiatrist once told me, nothing predicts behaviour like behaviour.
True to type, the PCB has slung out its good intentions with its recent selection policies. Rookies have been thrown into the international team after barely a first-class game, and now Latif has lost the support of the board little more than six months into his promised year. Why did it come to this? Pakistan, under Latif, had performed with credit, given the plethora of fledgling cricketers in the team. Why should Latif resign so suddenly? The answer, according to well-placed sources, is not a single issue. But the main reason is to do with the selection policy.
Latif, it seems, fought an ongoing battle over selection. He disagreed with the vogue for choosing players with little first-class experience at the expense of better-established cricketers waiting for a call-up. This tension reached its height during the Bangladesh series, when the selection committee wanted to drop Younis Khan and Abdul Razzaq and selected players that Latif didn’t want. Latif was particularly flabbergasted at the decision to play novices, such as Yasir Ali. He is not alone. Many former Pakistan cricketers are dismayed at the way Test caps have been awarded like charity handouts.
More worryingly Tauqir Zia, the PCB chairman, has remained directly involved with selection policy, and Latif was seen as a hurdle in the selection of players that the board favoured. An age-old flaw in the Pakistani system has been the uncertain role of the selectors. In principle they should be appointed for their talent-spotting, fairness, and integrity. They should also be autonomous. This is not the case with Pakistan cricket, so why pretend that it is? Far more honest to admit that the selectors are, for example, Tauqir Zia, Rameez Raja and Aamer Sohail, instead of playing a public charade. I don’t see a problem with that: make the decisions and take the responsibility.
Sources say that these selection hassles undermined Latif’s position, and the board effectively withdrew its support from him after he was banned by Mike Procter for claiming a catch that he had grounded. After that he was not invited to a gala dinner with the president of Pakistan - it’s unthinkable that the national captain should not attend such a gathering. Then Tauqir Zia made some public statements criticising Latif, and questioning his future.
All this augurs badly for Pakistan cricket, and it is time for a rethink at the PCB. It is a simple enough principle that selection should be left to the selectors, who then live or die by the team’s success. It is a straightforward enough rule that the board chairman should leave selection to his appointed experts. It is an easy enough concept that selection should be based on merit and performance and not just on connections or a hunch - or anyway, hunches should be the exception not the rule. It is basic enough management practice not to publicly undermine your appointed leader. But it is the simple, easy, straightforward, basic tasks that Pakistan cricket habitually fails to master. Nothing, unfortunately, predicts behaviour like behaviour. Watch out, Inzy.
Kamran Abbasi, born in Lahore but raised in Rotherham, is deputy editor of the British Medical Journal.
© Wisden CricInfo Ltd
Waqar unhappy with frequent changes in leadership
LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Waqar Younis said on Friday that frequent changes in captaincy was not a good practice and advocated that long term skipper could serve the team more effectively.
Talking to reporters at Gaddafi Stadium, Waqar claimed that 17 captains in 10 years showed complete inconsistency of Pakistan cricket.
Asked about his reaction on the appointment of Inzamam-ul-Haq as captain Waqar said that it had become a tradition of the Pakistan team that a sidelined player is suddenly named captain and the same thing has happened with Inzamam.
Waqar believed that he was fit and hopeful of getting back into the team.
“If leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmad could find a place after two years, I am also hopeful of making a comeback”, Waqar said.
To a question, Waqar said that he was not going to appear in any farewell match as he had not called it a day.
He said that there was no security problems in Pakistan and the South African team would enjoy their stay and claimed that the Proteas’ tour was necessary as Pakistan cricket had already suffered much due to refusal of teams to play in this part of the world on grounds of security.
He said that turning wickets would help Pakistan as it possessed two very good spinners in Mushtaq Ahmed and Saqlain Mushtaq.
Waqar was not in agreement with the remarks of the chief selector Aamir Sohail that a performance in English county was not so important.
“Aamir has his own point of view but I consider that county cricket is still tough and taking more than 100 wickets by Mushtaq was not an easy job”, he said.
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I say good riddance. No one seems to be protesting his ban which amounts to admission of guilt.
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I say good riddance. No one seems to be protesting his ban which amounts to admission of guilt.
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Thats your job. Shabash comeon do it.