Re: Sri Lanka VS Pakistan 26th March @ Colombo
In the Mumbai test - in one particular over Munaf Patel gave all sorts of problems to Collingwood with short-pitched stuff...one ball even hitting Collingwood on the shoulder. Dravid promptly took Munaf out of the bowling attack - nice man that he is , he did not want to see Collingwood hurt I think...
There is where I miss Gangu's *Kaptaani...*for all his faults..he was a very agresssive captain.
Having said that, I admire Dravid for willing to bat in any position for the team. Inzimam, on the other hand, for some inexplicable reason seems not to budge from his number 5 position regardless of the match situation.
And I would very much agree with your reasons as well.
At least, from the positive point view of Dravid and Co., the captain and the coach were at will to send the pinch-hitters up the batting order to fully maximize the utilization of Power-Plays, as we noted in the 5-match ODI series. From Pathan and Dhoni to Yuvraj to Tendulkar, they all were tried at either the opening or one-down positions, consistently in all five matches combined, and more or less, they delivered successful results for their team. That is what you call being aggressive, take the charge from the front, and most importantly, willing to take risks.
Regarding Inzamam being a part of Imran squad back in '92...............Fourteen (14) years have gone by; fourteen long and hard years, and look what we are thriving against. Just glance at where we are standing right now, and smell the sand on the ground. Fourteen years of witnessing aggressive captains taking charge from all aspects of modern cricket, and here we have this one soul still playing from that era, who has survived for so long and who hasn't learnt a thing. If the longitude of the timeline mentioned above is constant (which it is) and fails to budge from it's pre-historic days, I fail to see how is Inzamam going to start pulling his feet together in less than one year, with World Cup dangling from the ceiling.