PCB’s integrity committee clears Shoaib Malik of all charges

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

**Test Batting Averages:

vs New Zealand 2010/11
**http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=6091;team=7;type=series

**vs South Africa 2010/11
**http://stats.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-v-south-africa-2010/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=5902;team=7;type=series

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

**Tests:

**Our test top 6 are almost settled:

Taufeeq
Imran Farhat (reluctantly)
Younis
Azhar
Misbah
Umar Akmal or Asad (ideally I would drop Farhat and play both Umar and Asad but I know that is never going to happen!!)

followed by w/k Adnan

and there is Ramiz Raja Junior already waiting in the line. **Only a crazy Malik fan would want him in the current test team ahead of Asad/Azhar.

**On cricketing reasons alone, Malik shouldnt be in the test team. He is always a walking wicket in seaming conditions as his record in Aus & Eng would testify. We are in the process of rebuilding the team and should draft in youngsters who can adapt in all conditions.

**ODIs:

**Now ODIs are a separate matter altogether

There is a sameness about Younis and Misbah's style of play. Both are slow starters and not very good at rotating the strike. Both waste too many deliveries initially and take time to get going. But you do need consolidators too in a 50-over game esp. during the middle overs.

Here I would play Shoaib Malik and one of the two, Misbah (preferably) or Younis