World T20 2016 | India v Pakistan | 19th March 2016

[Jolie]

Re: World T20 2016 | India v Pakistan | 19th March 2016

@Shak

Bold bit is very true, its depressing to see our tail start after we are only five down. Every single teams bats deep, players like Broad, Ashwin, even Malinga can smash runs. But we can’t even do that.

I wasn’t a fan of Misbah as the way we slid down with poor cricket and poor ODI ranking was his fault as captain, however Afridi seems to escape this ‘criticism’. Had it been Misbah, or any other player, who’d lost about last 13/16 T20’s or had the worst win/loss ratio as captain he’d been absolutely destroyed. But people still seem to find excuses for Afridi.

I’m not going to waste my breath talking about Afridi, two more matches and that guy is a goner. Hopefully!

It’s not just about the tail, Pakistan has been producing absolutely sh**ty openers for past 13 years. One garbage opener after another, for goodness sake, how hard is to find one decent opening batsman or a pair? Tamim Iqbal is not exactly Viv Richards or Virat Kohli but when in form, the guy can walk into any World XI that’s how superior his skill level is, and we don’t have a single world quality reliable batsmen. I mean Sharjeel, Manzoor, Jamshed, Shehzad…what the hell is this?

Waqar Younis need the boot. It may sound like some kind of imperial arrogance, but get a foreign coach in. Get someone strict and professional like Dean Jones or Andy Flower, and finish of this whole ‘Shahid Bhai’ ‘Wiki Bhai’ ‘Alam Sir’ culture. Ban players from calling each other Bhais to get rid of this annoying culture of obedience, meekness and ‘hereditary respect and the idea of authority based on seniority’. Such social/cultural etiquette are really unprofessional and it undermines junior players and their self esteem. It divides the team into groups.

Seriously, if I ever by any mistake or miracle get a job in the PCB, the first thing I’ll do is to literally ban the word ‘bhai’ from the team. I’ll be like, I’m sorry, this is not your house, we are not a family here or 1950s married couples so please call each call each other by their names.