Re: Younus willing to lead the site - Board sticking with Shoaib Malik !
The thing is, selectors have to learn how to cross the line of treating the captains with more decency. Most get treated with nothing but infantile behavior from the management. One has to be able to meet the captain's demands of giving the players that complete the team according to the needs of the skipper. This is the reason why we come across statements in the media about captains dissociating themselves from the selection process. On one hand, you can't really blame the leader, he has to be able to learn how to round-up the team that he is given. A captain has to be able to bring out the best from amongst the members of the team. At the end of the day, the selectors and captains have to arrive on the same page in order to fulfill a common goal; and that is, to see that the all eleven members of the team are on the path of establishment and success.
I am not exactly sure why Younis has offered his services now, knowing the fact that he turned the offer down on four different occasions. Maybe the time was not right, but heck, you can't go from assisting the captain in the role of a vice-captain to leading the team the next day and demand all of your bench strength that meet your needs. Also, selectors have to learn to put their faith in the captains, just like they have done now with Malik. Overall, the greater fault lies in the process of picking and choosing which players need to be filled in the given slot of eleven. Common sense has to dictate whether or not to pick a certain player based on his larger-than-life character or perhaps the one who is more suited with his skills on the cricket field on a long-term process. Selectors and the management take the lion's share of the blame. Captains are tied into it either because they get handed the reigns due to the shortage of individuals who are either on the constant injured list or are too much of an inconsistent to be placed inside the playing X1, or captains are forced to accept it.