re: Pakistan V Windies. H/L post#450
Good Radiance, now it is time to learn and do the cleaning
Get rid of:
1) Hafeez, cannot play on bouncy tracks, cannot play fast bowlers, cannot play swinging ball, good against b grade team and their bowlers provided those bowlers do not move or turn or swing the ball.
2) Shoaib Malik, just tell him to f**k off... 3) Omer Gul, he cannot bowl any more... if experience is that important Razzaq is 10 time better than him. 4) Kamran akmal, don't know what he did to get selected to start with
Above are mandatory changes... if Pakistan want to feel any chance for next world cup.
There are many players who can play. So, one might find a reasonable player even though better players may not get chance. If team is selected using merit than even if team loses than it would not hurt, as winning and losing is part of game. But winning and losing becomes meaningless if team do not represent merit.
Players playing for country (National team) has to be best players country can provide, and that means nothing but performance should determine place in national team. So ... selection should be that ... Pakistan should have ranking system for each player playing domestic (and international) cricket and no player should get chance to play for national team before any player in ranking above him.
Country can have two set of ranking, one for test and other for ODI.
Since test and ODI played for country counts as element used to determine ranking of player, in such system, no player can afford to play bad in national team and expect to keep his place in next match.
I think, such system is must for Pakistan where parchi, tasub, subayeet, rushwat, rishtadari, taluk, pasand, napasand, etc is rampant, and other than automated selection, any selection would be seen with suspect ... but automated selection would have no reason for anyone to cry foul.
