Who should be our captain?

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@samb

the main problem I think is not who will be captain. the real issue is whether he will backed by the board and management. you can make anyone captain but if they’re going to appointed on a series by series basis and sacked after losing one match badly, then not even Imran Khan will succeed in this setup. the second issue is that every successful Pak captain was successful when he had a young team. oldies/“seniors” always create problems for every captain - regardless of which captain you go back to. they made things difficult for Malik. Younis created a lot of his own problems but the seniors issue was there as well. apart from these two, there are no other real candidates.

Younis Khan was given captaincy till 2011 it was himself who resigned after one bad series. Yousuf has backing of the board (to an extent) but unfortunately it is Yousuf who STILL insist to keep a slacker like Kamran Akmal and I believe it was him to ask for Sami as reinforcement and send Fawad back etc. Yousuf wants to stick with Malik who is the politician in the team. When we have such elements in the team how do we expect to win?

@samb

so, imo, for now Yousuf should continue. eventually, when the seniors are purged and if Malik regains his form, then he would be my choice.

ps. sorry, Ehsan bhai, didn’t mean to be rude. hope it didn’t come out that. it’s just that when it comes to Chacha Afraidi, I get a little emotional.

There is NO WAY that all seniors would be purged at some point in time making Malik an automatic choice. Afridi is here to stay, by that time Salman Butt would be thinking of being senior, Kamran would be fantasizing of being captain, Asif would be thinking same… so this ‘seniority’ issue is not going to be over anytime soon.