By now, everyone must’ve read the news article about Yousuf blasting Salman Butt for his running. I think it is a very poor example of leadership by Yousuf. You never go out and wash your dirty laundry in public. Whatever scolding had to occur, must’ve been done in private. Calling him lazy, selfish, not playing for the country, etc. etc, is unjustified and uncalled for.
Whatever Butt’s faults may be, we can be sure that he did not intend to run his captain out. And I am pretty sure he’s playing for his country, as much as Yousuf or any other member of the team. Did Yousuf stop and think what this will do to the morale of Salman and the team?
At the time of runout, Yousuf gave a long, hard stare to Salman Butt. The Australian commentator pointed out right away how much it would undermine the confidence of his teammate. What was the need to do that? Whatever was done was done, just accept it and quickly walk back to pavilion.
This is even more ironic because Yousuf himself has been known for his erratic running.. a situaion that he’s somewhat rectified only in the last year or so. So him ripping Butt for his running is like pot calling the kettle black.
This is not how you lead. You support, encourage, push, cajole to get the best out of men under your charge, not throw them under the bus.
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Yousuf was completely right. Butt not only deserves to be called out for his pathetic running but he also needs to be dropped as punishment for his selfishness and unprofessionalism. this isn't the first time Butt's done something like this.
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^ No, we don't need more $hit in the open than there already is. Yousuf has been the more idiot (from run-out perspective), it was not first time he got run-out, if you look back he is the one getting run-out MOST number of times. As a captain if you believe someone is selfish and not playing for your country you simply drop him instead of going out in the media and issuing statements against a player.
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sorry samb i dont agree with u yousuf was wrong there have u ever seen a captain talking against ur player in a press conference
yousuf have lost it completely
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depends. if there is one run-out then yeah don't call him out. but if the same idiot is involved in two run-outs when the team is desperately try stay afloat. and the two runout victims are the team's only 2 batsmen, then Butt deserves all the plaudits that Yousuf gave him.
if anything Yousuf went easy on him. Butt deserved some serious chitrol right there and then on the pitch.
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I saw the two run outs. just now , I would NOT say that it was Salman Butts mistake. He clearly signalled Yousuf NO for the the third run, which he obviously did not see. Then, everyone knows Yousuf's problem of getting run out every now and then. He is one of the only batsman I have seen, who got himself out run out when he went so far ahead in defending the ball that the player at silly point throwed the ball back at him, and he was well short of the crease and he hadnt finished his defensive stance.
I would also give some marks to Butt, cause first of all it was a risky signal, then the bowler did came in front of him. After all, we are playing a test match, not a T20 or ODI, which batsmen are at there tows to take a run every now and then.
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Yousuf is wrong. This is test cricket not a ODI first of all. You need to know the capabilities of your player. If you are on the pitch with the laziest of the lot, then you should be careful. Specially when you have all the time in the world to put up a big total. Your third run will not demoralize the other team which have piled up a mammoth score for you. You will cut your own arm with the stupid running. And as others said, talking trash in press for your players will make you more stupid than your captaincy suggests.
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You all remember Yoyo once stupidly and at a crucial stage got himself run out after playing a forward defensive stroke to forward short leg where the fielder fielded and Yoyo took off for a non existent single. It was such a comedy.
I agree with brahm, a captain never lashes out his players in public. Okay Salman butt may not be a supreme athlete but he was at the crease longer than Yousuf. Yousuf had fresh legs and was trying to be over aggressive with his running and Salman clearly signalled NO to yousuf for the third run.
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Excellent topic Brahmachari Jee. Something which I have often thought about in the context of the Pak team.
Assume for a moment that Salman Butt was playing for Australia and he ran two batsmen out. Can you imagine Ponting making the same comment (as Mohd Yousuf did) to the press at the end of the day's play. Even Dhoni always resorts to the usual cliches with the word "we" to cover up individual failings . So, instead of saying "Nehra's bowling sucks" for example, he would say "We have to work on our bowling".
But isn't that the reason Pak cricket establishment keeps us so entertained. They know no diplomacy. Players/officials freely and publicly pull down each other's *chaddis *as if they are in a college cricket environment.
No wonder then that inspite of so much talent (esp in bowling), the Pak team finds it so difficult to play as one cohesive unit. In an environment where politicking, senior/junior division, bitterness, name calling etc are rampant, every player needs to look out for himself.
A joke I read on another forum :
Why did Mohd Yousuf not take the new ball after 90 overs ?
Because the old ball was "senior".
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I agree with samb on this one, Yousuf was right to do so, the parchi called butt has left no other way for any captain...
Someone was saying that had Ponting be doing that, yes i agree ponting will do such things in public as he knows the Australian cricket board will take care of the particular player and all he have to do is to formally inform them...
This numb nut has scored a 100, but had this hunderd helped Pakistan in any way, i remember Imran Farhat carrying bat in against NZ, but that didn't helped either, in test match cricket the 100s only matter when you make a difference... he needed to stay at wicket for at least today, same goes for malik...
Both of them just scored for themselves and they never cared what the team actually requires from them...not only that, Salman got the two inform batsman run-out now that calls for some action...
Yoyo averages 24.12 in Aus. So it's great he got out as Butt's 100 made up for everything.
Yoyo's behavior sux.
a fluke 100 by a sub standard player does not compensate for running out two of the best batsmen in the team. Butt and everything he does sux big time.
Yoyo averages 24.12 in Aus. So it's great he got out as Butt's 100 made up for everything.
Yoyo's behavior sux.
Butt (and Malik) played for themselves not for the team!!
Yousuf's anger and frustration at Salman Butt is completely justified but he is expressing his anger inappropriately and - as much as I hate Salman Butt for his selfishness and lack of professionalism here - (for the sake of the team) Yousuf did not have to say all this in public. It looks bad to say the least. He could have 'taken care of' Butt in private
Pakistan century maker Salman Butt was defiant after being labelled a “lazy little runner” by his skipper, brushing off his part in two calamitous run outs as not worth moaning about.
His third Test century on Saturday, his second against Australia, was seen by many as a salve to the wounds left by Mohammad Yousuf’s daggers following his run out, made worse by Butt later also st*****ng his side’s second-best batsman Umar Akmal on Friday.
Butt however scotched those thoughts saying a batsman always feels good after a century.
“I don’t think it has something to do with these run outs because they are part of the game and we have to carry on now,” he said.
Butt’s 102 off 234 balls, including 17 fours, on day three of the third Test seemed short of a redemption for the 25-year-old, baked but not abandoned by his skipper for being a selfish, “lazy little runner”.
Describing Yousuf as an older brother, Butt said he had no knowledge of his blast over the runs outs, adding with a smile that he also hadn’t asked the skipper about them.
“Anybody in his place would have been like that so I don’t mind even if he said something,” Butt said.
"I think maybe for next time we should be careful and be helpful to each other.
"We’ve played enough cricket not worry about these things.
"He’s our best player and it would have been very good for us if he had stayed in and scored a big hundred but it’s something that happened.
“You just can’t keep moaning about it. You have to carry on.”
Despite top scoring in his side’s first dig, it will never be known what Yousuf, with a 53-run Test average, or the in-form Umar, would have made on the batsman’s paradise at Bellerive Oval.
During an admirable defence of his team after day two, saying they are doing the best they can with what they’ve got, Yousuf said he would work to build Butt’s spirits after the run outs and only counsel him about them after the match.
Butt’s third century in 26 Tests was all the more impressive because after eight 50s he’d earned a reputation for not being able to bridge the gap to 100.
He said there were no particularly difficult periods for him during the knock.
“The main idea was to be there as long as possible and if in the meanwhile you get a bad ball that you think can dispatch then play your normal game,” he said.
Butt was the first man out Saturday, caught at first slip, in a devastating bowling change introducing part-time left-arm leg-spinner Simon Katich.
His first salute after the gritty century was toward his dressing room.
Resuming at 4-94 on Saturday, Butt shared a 129-run partnership with former skipper Shoaib Malik (58) before becoming Australia’s first wicket in three hours of play, midway through the middle session.
As I said earlier Butt may be a lazy runner and for the sake of argument let's say he was the culprit in both the dismissals, still it does not give Yousuf any right to blast him.
Yousuf has been the undistupted champion of run outs in the last 10 years and even the great Inzi could match him. Does that mean that after every single run out in which Yousuf contributed the captain or the coach should have blasted him? If yes, then I am ok with what he said yesterday.
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only if Inzi did something like this to Yousuf in all those years where Yousuf got others run out due to his lack of judgement - often involving Inzi in the run-outs (they batted together in middle order, and Inzi's slow running was often exacerbated by Yousuf's bad run calls).
Butt may have been in the wrong this time around, but as a captain, you need to restrain yourself from making a mockery out of your team which is already not high on confidence. Yousuf was simply an a$$ doing this in public, but I would've supported him if he gave Salman a grand chitrol in the dressing room.