Re: ICC Champions Trophy 3rd Match: Oct 17th, Pakistan V Sri Lanka, Jaipur
This is your plan for findng Pakistan a set of solid consistent openers. You try Afridi as opener, he performs, he fails, you drop him, then you bring him back at number 7, he succeeds, you make him an opener or brng him up the order again, he fails, you drop him again. Rinse. Repeat.
Have you been living under a rock for the past 7 years?
Afridi can be ultra successful, and he can fail sometimes. But problem with failing up the order is that it gifts the other team a free wicket, and more often than not instigate a complete batting collapse. I am surprised we are still discussing this.