Younis confirmed as captain

[GoldenAsif]

Re: Younis confirmed as captain

@smooth_guy

The people who are naming the following three are keep forgetting the following facts.

Razzaq is a quiet guy with not so great leadership skills. He is a good workhorse but not a leadership material. Plus he is so soft for the job, same as MoYo.

Afridi does not have a permenant place in Tests, neither he looks (or ever looked) serious for the game. He does have some cricketing skills in terms of field placement and to pressurize the oponents, also that he is aggressive by nature, but he fails to inspire others cuz of his non-sense approach ( usually in batting, sometimes in field/dancing/swearing).

Shoaib Akhtar can't be a good captain, simply because he will be off for two series after shining in one. This one reason is far more than enough to keep him concerntrate on his actual job. Plus, he seems to have learned the strategic bowling (which is his primary job) after 8 years in International cricket (we are talking about consistency and dominance he has shown in Eng/India series earlier this year). If it took this long for him to become a thinking bowler (as many commentator praised him in last 10 months), what kind of captain's skills he would have keen to learn. Ask yourself.

My vote for vice-captaincy goes to Mohammad Yousuf. Yes I know he's quite laid-back like Inzi but he commands an automatic selection in both teams. Besides none of Razzaq (no longer an automatic selection in tests), Shoaib-Akhtar (too injury-prone), Malik (needs to show more consistency outside sub-continent + not an automatic selection in tests) or Afridi (too temperamental and moody + not an automatic selection in tests) look like captaincy/vice-captaincy material to me.

just my opinion

[the_game]

Re: Younis confirmed as captain

@smooth_guy

Shoaib Akhtar can’t be a good captain, simply because he will be off for two series after shining in one. This one reason is far more than enough to keep him concerntrate on his actual job. Plus, he seems to have learned the strategic bowling (which is his primary job) after 8 years in International cricket (we are talking about consistency and dominance he has shown in Eng/India series earlier this year). If it took this long for him to become a thinking bowler (as many commentator praised him in last 10 months), what kind of captain’s skills he would have keen to learn. Ask yourself.

Not fair. Shoaib has always been a very talented bowler, it’s his fitness and commitment that was in question in the past. You can’t point fingers at his bowling with that kind of strike rate throughout whatever number of matches he has played in his career so far.