Re: Warid cricket Series, Abu Dhabi - Pak v SLA 2nd ODI - Sunday May 20
While there can be no excuse for losing against Ireland, it’s clear that missing four frontline players (Actor, Asif, Afridi and Razzaq) severely upset the balance of the team and affected us as much as Inzi’s poor leadership. Take out 4 integral players from any team and I am sure they would struggle to win most of their games. Yousuf also re-empasized the same point with Fakhar although he was then quite quick to dismiss it as an excuse for bad show against Ireland. This plus the fact that the openers failed to give us decent starts cost us at the World Cup. I know fielding is another weak area of Pakistan but then it was never spectacular even when Imran Khan was the captain of the team or when the two W’s were almost single-handedly winning us games in the late 80s to mid-90s.
In nutshell Inzi can’t be solely blamed for the WC debacle. A captain is only as good as the team he’s leading :k: