Salman Butt is Afridi's "Main Guy"

[hanibal]

@brahmachari99

So Salman Butt performed in NZ, Australia, and then in NZ (i.e., Pakistan’s last three series), yet you’re dead-set against him. What else do you want for consistency? Your excuse for “playing well in a losing cause” doesn’t make much sense either. By that token, Mohammad Aamer must be a terrible bowler as well because he bowled in a losing cause in the Australia series. The whole team sucks but one or two guys perform, and you choose to criticize the guy that actually performed?

Excatly, did his performance made Pakistan Win ? this is the point i made, which made you furious.. and please when it comes to comparison, don’t compare apple with orange… Aamer is new, he need international exposure, he have got he basics right and there room for improvement… on the other hand, BUTT is just an average player ( so far) had some big knocks under his belt, but so does Azhar Mehmood, does that make Azhar a star cricketer?

@brahmachari99

Your cop-out of “not an excuse that none other Pak batsmen handle fast bowling well” is really pathetic. Well, if the whole team sucks, then why single one guy out? I am no big fan of Salman Butt, but I appreciate the fact that he makes an effort and has been performing reasonably well recently. None of our batsmen have the technique or the talent to handle good fast bowling (and even good spin bowling), except Younis.

So you want to say that, if others are not performing, it is an excuse to not to perform at all? is this what you mean? if yes, then i don’t see y Pakistan cricket or any sector should progress… as far as making effort is concerned, tax-payers money is not paid to make JUST an effort, they need something in return… now tell me, how many times BUTT played the way he played against NZ in last T20? i don’t know exactly how many matches he have played by now ( please do not count matches on the flat tracks..evev Yovraj scores on it and as soon as he goes to forieng pitches he is out of form…

@brahmachari99

You mention Saeed Anwar, Inzimam, but please understand the fact that very few batsmen in the world are of their caliber. We have to make do with what we currently have.

Saeed Anwar, Inzimam and others were human just as we, the only difference between the class and average player like BUTT is that they had technique and with international exposure and practice they groomed..

It is said that, MAN Gets what it work/look for, we were looking pacer like Wasim and we got Aamer in the side and now we can say that, another WASIM is in making, 3/4 years or may be more down the road, he’ll start delivering and if he didn’t change him.. The ban on Asif was blessing in disguise, it made room for Young Aamer, and then we got Akmal again talented cricketer if treated well can deliver in future… same we should do with our openers.. why are we stuck with Shazaib and BUTT and i don’t know who other, why don’t inject young blood…Babar Awan seems to be sound opener… he could been tried… i am sure even average performance by a talented cricketer would be better than what we have got from BUTT…

The effects of Indian Media can be seen, average cricketers are over-hyped.. look at the averages of most of Indian cricketers… we are doing the same, if someone performed he is good, if he didn’t then he is bad again if he performed he is good and cycle goes on… we should be able to judge our cricketers on the basis of their technique.. the player with better technique turns into likes of Saeed Anwar, Zaheer Abbas, Javaid Miandad, Basit Ali and many more… players with bad technique turns into Ijaz BUTT the chairman of the board… i hope you get the point this time…