Misbah-Ul-Haq Performance

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Re: Misbah-Ul-Haq Performance

@ehsan

maybe he should have got out playing brainless shot and Pakistan would have lost by a margin of over 70 odd runs. at least he tried if only someone had stayed with him. Yes he is a slow player but he lets other play around him while he holds one end. Did the collapse allow him to play any faster yesterday, apart from him , Hafeez and to some extent Umar Akmal the rest of the batting was pathetic.

Misbah undermined the efforts of others when they tried. Umer Akmal scored a boundary and rotated the strike to him and he played 4 dot balls ruining all the efforts. Afridi made him make runs for which he was not willing to run. The pressure created by his test-match inning got to everyone else and they started departing trying to absorb the pressure. Being a slow player is not an issue. He has been great in the past doing exactly that but he was never stuck at one end. Yesterday, he looked totally different than his usual self under pressure. He could not rotate the strike. Whatever was done on the field was still manageable given the runs Pakistan was supposed to chase. The point where Pakistan could seal it despite a bad day on the field, Misbah took on himself to make sure it would not happen.