Re: Misbah-Ul-Haq - New VC of Pakistani team?
As a rule, VC should be the captain-in-waiting. By rejecting captaincy twice, Younis makes for a bad VC candidate, except in cases of emergency when we have no one else available. Malik is fairly young, so poor form is probably more of a concern than age. Ironically Misbah is probably older than Malik, so if all things work out nicely its not a situation where once the Captain retires, the VC takes over and makes for continuity in team's good fortunes. If both Malik and Misbah keep developing as a cricketer and grow in stature, Misbah will likely retire before Malik anyway. Then again, cricket is not a linear sport. Funny things happen all the time.
Younis now suddenly making himself available for test captaincy, and making overt moves to snap it is dumb-founding. May be all he needs is another ass taken to him home for him to back out again. Plus he should realize that the autocratic (and often irrational) PCB that we have will never give him the sort of power Imran Khan (and later Wasim Akram) exercised. If he intends to keep whining about it every now and then and throwing tantrums all around, than he is better off just letting his bat talk.