Why Misbah ul-Haq is Pakistan’s greatest Test captain

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Re: Why Misbah ul-Haq is Pakistan’s greatest Test captain

@phoenixdesi

janab, yes it was a great test match but Pakistan lost that series plus great zaheer abbas was not at imran’s disposal when imran actually won all those series away from home. zaheer already retired. so imran won those series with a relative mediocre teams vs what we had in 70s and then 80s.

to give you an example, when pakistan beat england in england a full series in 1987, imran had muddasar nazar, shoaib muhammad, mansoor akhtar, mohsin kamal, saleem yousif, and ijaz amad in the team. now compare it to what we had in 70s and 90s and you can see it was a mediocre team but imran’s leadership.

Pakistan did lose the series but that was the defining moment of his captaincy when Pakistan won a test there for the first time since the 50’s. So lets not downplay its significance.

While you keep mentioning the players with which he won you keep ignoring others like Wasim who had been there since 1985, Qadir who was there with him and later waqar. These were awesome players and they were groomed and played under him.

In any case I have said that he was a gereat captain but the way Misbah brought the team out of its depth to where it is today has an edge over him. That is my view and I am sticking to it. Ker loh joh karna wey.