Imran Khan Threatens To File Defamation Suit

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Re: Imran Khan Threatens To File Defamation Suit

@GoldenAsif

Imran Khan (led Pakistan 48 times in tests, a Pakistani record) won 14 and lost 8 tests as captain. Malik (led 12 times) won 7 and lost 3 tests as captain but his record does not include any notable away wins. Malik’s test wins had more to do with the brilliance of the two W’s than his captaincy skills.

Pakistan won both the test (1-0) and one-day series (5-1, would have been 6-0 had Qadir not stupidly run himself out on the last ball!) under Imran Khan in India in 1987
ODI Series - Matches and Results

The law has been changed now. A match is considered a tie these days if both teams finish on the same score even if one team has lost fewer wickets than the other team.

Imran had the support of Miandad, (notably) Salim Malik and many others. I don’t think a captain has more than 20% influence on a team’s performance. Without the support and availability of quality players, even the best captain can fail.

In games Malik captained Pakistan, he proved much more successful than any other captain (both tests and ODIs).

Now if Tendulkar has scored over 3000 runs against minnows, he still is the leading scorer. And if you say Mohammed Yousuf scored more than 600 runs against a struggling West indies then he still beat the record set by Richards so it does not matter what sort of opponent was out there.

As you said Imran was a very good captain, I will add any other captain was good too, and Malik was the most successful one.