PCB’s integrity committee clears Shoaib Malik of all charges

[Nikema]

Re: PCB’s integrity committee clears Shoaib Malik of all charges

@GoldenAsif

**The politician is back!
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Regardless of what some people say (pure imagination), there seems to be such a dearth of serious talent in the country that we keep going back to the same mediocre players and Shoaib Malik is not more than mediocre in my book. Either that or the system is totally corrupt and incompetent. About time guys like Mansoor Amjad who has been doing well at domestic level were given a chance at international level

GA, I disagree with several of your points, and here is why
– Agree that Malik is no exceptionally talent batsman when you compare it with Lara, Ponting, Sachin or even second tier players like Inzi and Moyo, Mahela but when you compare him with players like Misbah, Younis, Hafeez and Afridi in situation that demands digging your heals in and fighting every inch of the way to take team to victory he is light years ahead of these players even with his mediocre talent and this is what has always made me admire Malik and I will take him over all 4 of them combined in a situation like Mohali or any other similar situation.
– Also, what would happened to Mansoor amjad if he gets selected on a tour where either Misbah/Afridi are captain, Misbah sat out talent like UA when he was captain and afridi has tried to negatively affect careers of several young players under his captaincy like Hammad Azam , that left arm quickie in WI, Junaid in WC, Usman Salahudin in WI and that Lahore leggie (I think there was a dispute about his selection at one point under one of the afridi lead serieses). Because both Afridi/Misbah know that giving appropriate opportunities to these guys mean that either there development as cricketers would either lead to axing of afridi/misbah themselves or will lead selectors to drop the constantly tried/tested and failed seniors lik Younis/Hafeez/Razzak that people like afridi/misbah need in team to secure afridi/misbah’s chances of longer captaincy stints.

@GoldenAsif

Our current bowling is not more than average and the less said about the batting and fielding esp. catching the better. Till such time we find better pace bowlers than Gul and Wahab and most importantly until we sort out our pathetic batting (barring Misbah, Younis and Taufeeq to some extent), we will struggle to beat good sides consistently in tests

Its interesting that you have singled out every batsman except Misbah, Younis and Taufeek and called it pathetic, which means that Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiz (who get consistent chances) are not good enough where as many believe that it’s the later three who have more of a back bone to fight for Pak in tough situation and put up big scores than the three names that you mentioned, one can guess that Misbah himself knows that and in order to keep opinion like yours floating among cricket followers he keeps UA either out of the squad (now several times under his captaincy Test series VS SA and NZ) or bats him too late down the order to a position where after 20-30 runs he has to bat with tail and he has to try to score quick runs sacrificing his wicket/talent in the process.