Re: Shoaib Mohammad - The fashion photographer
I am sure he will still do a better job with the bat then our so called openers. Only if we had a grafter in our ranks today the results in our test matches would be much different.
BTW he was a much better player than Ramiz Raja yet Raja was persisted with due to our age old nepotism problem.
I beleive the Mohammad (Hanif, Mushtaq etc.) family has been unfairly dealt with through out the cricketing history of Pakistan. A lot had to do with the ethnicity of these players that was quite prevalent in those days. I however believe that we are much better now in that sense so at least something has improved.
He was no doubt a very boring person to watch but at least he did the job required of him. Also a lot has changed on how the game is being approached today versus 10-15 years ago. Today if someone is to look at the footage of Gavaskar they will find it as boring as Shoaib.
He served Pakistan well, was prematurely dropped because of politics and I am happy that he found success outside of cricket
All the best to him