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 lost partly because of David Constant’s consistently biased umpiring and Imran made his feelings known publicly after the series was over.

Even then it was a very tight third game
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/63319.html