all Pak captains have been successful when they purged the team of “seniors”. look at Inzi… he took over after everyone better than him was gone and captained with relative peace. though even there Akhtar did his level best to create problems.
man, you should have seen Afridi’s interviews after the 2007 world cup. every talk show he went on - he had to mention two things. one - he wanted a second wife. two - the captain should be a “senior”… but now that Malik was captain, he’d “support him”. yeah right. kiss my arse. we all saw how he supported him.
the thing I don’t understand is that when the team sucked under Malik - it was all the fault of Malik’s captaincy.. he was too “defensive” (whatever that means). but when the team sucked under Younis or Yousuf, then it was still Malik’s fault because he was supposedly underperforming to screw over the captain. kamaal logic hay!
when Malik captains in domestic, everything works for him. his tactics work. his bowling changes work. everything works. maybe, just maybe because his players actually support him in domestic?