Inzamam as Captain!

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Inzamam as Captain!

@PakAwam1

Inzamam has got to be among one of the most succesful captains, i dont know the records but, he has won a test series in NZ, against england, india, west indies at home, Pakistan won against south africa at home too but i think he was stand in captain for rashid latif so i dont know if that counts, he drew test series’ in WI and india, but also he may be the only pakistan captain to lose a test series and 2 ondi tournaments against india at home, anyways i think under Inzamam Pakistan have beaten 4 major teams, and the great test will be in SA though!

No Inzi’s captaincy record is not that great - 10 wins to 9 lossses in 28 tests. Miandad, Imran Khan and Wasim Akram have better stats but just look at the captaincy record of Steve Waugh and Ponting. Infact if you combine the stats of Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting, Australia have played 138 tests and won a staggering 90 tests and lost only 25 tests. That confirms their utter dominance over the past 12 years or so.

http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/INDIVIDUAL/TEST_CAPTAIN_APPEARANCES.html](http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/INDIVIDUAL/TEST_CAPTAIN_APPEARANCES.html)
Inzamam’s reluctance to groom youngsters is all the more surprising when one considers that he himself had been ignored by selectors for 3-4 years despite being the leading batsman in domestic cricket in the late 80s. He got his chance to impress Imran Khan in the nets only after his ‘friend’ Mushtaq Ahmad personally approached Imran. Inzamam has rather annoyingly shown no great interest in introducing promising young pacers like Samiullah Niazi, Jamshed and Anwar Ali to real cricket. The same dull selections have been going on for quite sometime. Infact this was the first time since 1964 that Pakistan played the same team in all three tests of a series. His persistence with Razzaq and Malik in tests and the very ordinary Rao Iftikhar in ODIs boggles the mind.