Mohammad Yousaf appointed captain for NZ test series

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Younis quits, says he’s lost command

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At least eight or nine players in the current squad have been unhappy with Younis as captain for a while and had made their concerns clear to Butt immediately after the Champions Trophy.** The loss to New Zealand in the three-match ODI series, in which Younis failed with the bat, cranked up the pressure, with a number of voices in Pakistan calling for his ouster. Today Younis decided that he had lost “command” over the team and carrying on was not an option.

Younis refused to go into further detail over which players had revolted but it is believed the group is led by Shoaib Malik and includes other seniors such as Shahid Afridi and Kamran Akmal. Sources close to Younis say that he was particularly disappointed in the manner in which some players were dismissed in the last ODI against New Zealand.
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Though Pakistan ultimately lost by seven runs, their batting had collapsed to 101 for 9 -** effectively losing those nine wickets for 54 runs - until a miraculous last-wicket stand took them nearly all the way. But the way established batsmen were dismissed - in a rash of pull shots - on a placid pitch has led Younis to conclude that it was done to undermine him.

**“He was really unhappy with the shots some of the batsmen played and he feels as if they did it deliberately to undermine him,” one source told Cricinfo. **“He just feels as if he is knocking his head against a brick wall, telling batsmen, senior guys, how to play and them just not listening. He is tired of the constant fighting within the team, especially when it is not clear what they are all fighting or upset about. Nobody has gone to him directly to say anything and that has upset him the most. It isn’t so much the pressure of his own failures that has brought him down as this.”

I mentioned exactly the same points in another thread. that all three of these played those shots as if they wanted to get out and I also said that I see a mutiny arising very soon. and it just took one day now. If this is just true to one percent, then all three should be penalized as well. Also Younis played its card on the wrong time, he declared himself as ‘AWAM ka KAPTAAN’ however he failed to become one. He should not have quit at a test series or so. Anyways, I would pray that at least Misbah gets back into the team, cause a senior batsman is needed along the side of Yousuf and Malik, else the middle order would be too young.