Re: Salman Butt's future
I would still prefer Farhat over Butt unless Farhat starts to perform horribly...why? because even if Farhat scores 10 less runs than Butt while batting...Farhat will probably save 15 while fielding at point. Farhat is a brilliant fielder...and it was good to see him fielding in point yesterday against India because in the last series or do I saw him fielding in the slips...and he definetly wasnt comfortable there...but fielding in the cover region is his strong point.
These days games depend a lot on fielding...and Butt needs to improve his technique and learn how to play the outswinger and he must do something about his butter fingers...if I remember correctly there was an Australian batsmen who was dropped due to his poor fielding standards...and that tells u why fielding is so important in today's game...especially on flat pitches...where the batsmen wont give u many opportunities.