Why in God's name is Afridi dropped from the team?

Decent_6Chora · April 3, 2006, 5:31pm

Re: Why in God’s name is Afridi dropped from the team?

You can not include Afridi in the team as a pure batsman and thats what Pakistan need right now. His advantage comes into play if Pakistan’s bowling is not perofrming which is not the case.

You can not substitute Afridi by anyone of the Inzi, Yousuf, Younus even by your standsrds of Average and this leaves out Imran Farhat and Faisal Iqbal. You can not send Afridi as an opener in the test. Where do you think he will fit in? Pakistan had TOO MANY allrounders in the TEST team. We should have only 2 all rounders at max in the playing eleven

2/1 All Rounders
1 Keeper
5 Batsmen
3/4 Bowlers

dhobi_bhai:

Statistics calculated for a period of (2004/05 - 2005/06)

Inzamam
24 innings = 1200 runs with an average of 50

Yousuf
25 innings = 1337 runs with an average of 53

Younis
29 innings = 1767 runs with an average of 60

Afridi

18 innings = 854 runs with an average of 47

Scores of 103, 156 and 60 in his last four test innings (bar a single innings).

23 wickets at an average of 32

And to top it all off, one of the single best fielders in the side for quite a long time!

Awfully convenient to choose this garbage club player over Afridi. Next thing we know, Asif will be dropped from the team for his one sole inconsistent performance while another trash will be selected from God-knows-which part of Pakistan. I am absolutely livid at this (unanimous?) selection decision.

Looking at the above statistics, seems like only the elite group (at or above 50 average) are guaranteed their place in the side. Anything below 50 (let alone a decent 47) is overlooked and deemed as failure.