Right now Malik or even Afridi provides us an extra bowling option which was badly needed in the last test. Replacing Iqbal with either of these batsmen won’t be a big drop.
Asking any other batsmen to OPEN will be a sure failure at least with farhat which I hate to say this is a better option at this point. The sad part is I’m liking farhat as bowler more than as a batsman. He was fun to watch. I hope Yousuf use him more! who knows! can’t believe I’m in farhat’s’ bandwagon!