2. Similarly, when most of the stalwarts of the 1981-82 tour to Australia came back home, having played under a young Javed Miandad, they revolted against his brand of leadership and would not agree to play against Sri Lanka in the 1982 home series. That included Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Wasim Bari etc. Air-Vice-Marshal Nur Khan, the president of the board then who had initially appointed Miandad as captain, would not take it lying down and dropped all those not willing to play to bring in new players. Salim Malik was one of them, who on his debut at Karachi scored a century in the second innings and went on to become one of the finest batsmen of the country. Saleem Yousuf got his opening also because of the rumpus. The rebellious players, however, came back in the fold in the final Test at Faisalabad when Miandad himself withdrew from the captaincy but not before he had won the series to give Imran Khan the opportunity to captain Pakistan in England in the 1982 series. ------------------------------------------------------------------ One could argue that player power won in the end as Miandad had to step down and all those 'rebels' only agreed to return when a new captain (Imran Khan) was named for the England series.
Just like Younus Khan has withdrew himself from Captaincy? Knowing Miandad's nature, do you think he can withdrew himself from anything? I fail to understand why you gave that example. Thats EXACTLY whats going on right now except for the fact that Younus "withdrew" quite early than Miandad
Personally, I am starting to accept now that THIS IS THE WAY WE ARE. THIS IS IN OUR BLOOD AND NATURE and we can not go against nature PERIOD. If you look around, this politics is everywhere. We are not able to fix the other important areas let alone cricket. So this now is no more "news" for me I guess.