Re: Pakistan-India, Third ODI, Sat 9th April, Jamshedpur (Merged)
I am glad that they are resting Sami and I do believe that he isn't dropped.
It was quite evident in the second ODI that Sami was out of fuel. He has been overbowled in the test series (Pakistan needed that) and the one-day series batting pitches and the weahter have been brutal. Bowling yorker length deliveries requires a lot of strength and the bowler has to really stretch till the very last second of releasing the ball (what the commentators often say, bending the back). He really had nothing in him to bowl that kind of deliveries and I don't think anyone can blame him, especially because of the weather.
So it's great that he's out of the team, rebuilding his stamina for the important West Indies cricket series. That's one of few places, where Pakistan team have never won a series. For that matter, I hope Shoaib and Shabbir stay back in Pakistan slowly building their momentum till the WI series.
It'd be incredibly short sighted to lose Shoaib, Shabbir or Sami because of this ODI series played in 35-40C weather and the kind of pitches where only the full length deliveries have any chance of getting the batsmen out.