Re: How Sarfraz Ahmad ‘accidentally’ rose to cricketing fame
Do you want to see Pakistani pathetic racialism in cricket selection? … So read:
Do you know that Sarfraz present win record in both ODIs and T20I is better than any past Captains?
Do you know what happened after Misbah stepped down in 2015 (having pathetic win percentage of 51 percent , same as Shahid Afridi)? … By then, Sarfraz led the team in 1 ODI (in 2015) and won. Sarfraz was lone Pakistani to make century in 2015 World cup and also made record of highest number of catches by a w/k in world cup. But what happened? …
Misbah stepped down in April 2015, after Pathetic performance by Pakistan in World cup. Azhar Ali, who was out of Pakistan ODI team since over 2 years (since Jan 2013) was called and given captaincy in April 2015 (against BD, suppose to be easiest team to beat at that time, though Azhar led the team so badly that Pakistan lost the series 3-0). Obvious choice was Sarfraz was he was denied the captaincy. That happened even when Sarfraz took record world cup catches against SA (where Sarfraz also made 49 brisk runs and was MoM) and gave Pakistan first victory in World-cup. … followed by Sarfraz becoming lone Pakistani centurion in that world cup giving Pakistan their second victory (Sarfraz was again MoM).
Sarfraz performance should have got appreciated, but not … as what followed is that, Sarfraz was dropped from team .., and management started flirting with idea to replace Sarfraz with Rizwan. Worse was to start dropping Sarfraz regularly as w/k, replacing Sarfraz with Rizwan,
Anyhow, Azhar led Pakistan in 29 matches and won 12. When Azhar got unfit and Rizwan was w/k, Hafeez took the captaincy in 2 matches and won 1,
Since Misbah stepped down: Pakistan played 31 matches and won 13. Pakistan won 12 matches under Azhar (mostly in UAE and against weaker teams).
Even after such pathetic failures of Azhar as Captain, some on this forum and in PCB wanted to keep Sarfraz at bay. Some even wanted Sarfraz to get dropped as W/K as well as from team, wanting Akmals or Rizwan to replace Sarfraz … even though Sarfraz is not only better w/k then any of them, but have batting average better than most Pakistani batsmen in team … both in limited overs and test.
So, what was that anti-Sarfraz sentiments other than discrimination, biases, racialism, injustices, provincialism in PCB and was present on this forum too.
Even today, many top performers in Pakistan first class cricket are kept out of team, because they are from Karachi … and some even here say that selectors should ignore Pakistan first class records … but do not say what record should be seen and on what ground players should get selected into Pakistan team?
Well, Sarfraz led Pakistan in 9 ODIs and won 7 … compare to Azhar 29 ODis winning 12. So, to equal Azhar’s record, Sarfraz have to win 5 more ODIs in next 20. 
Win percentage of Pakistani ODi Captains … Captains who took Pakistan to 8th rank (and at time early this year, Pakistan was near to getting demoted to 9th rank).
year: 2008 to 2017:
Misbah … captained in 87 matches … win: 51.7 %
Afridi … captained in 38 matches … win: 51.3 %
Azhar … captained in 29 matches … win: 41.4 %
Sarfraz … captained in 9 matches … win: 77.8 %
(Note: In most matches under Sarfraz, Pakistan played stronger team and won … none were played in Pakistani prepared UAE pitches),
So … what happened, is discrimination, bias, injustice, racialism and provincialism , or not?
Only thing is that, with Sarfraz and Fawad (batsman with highest domestic batting average in all formats of cricket), discrimination, biases, injustices, racialism and provincialism is tooooo obvious and is done shamelessly. It was/is so obvious, shameless and granted that even to talk about them seems useless. That is all.