Surprised to see some so called cricket analysts and jealous ex cricketers not accepting Misbahs excellent leadership qualities whole heartedly and terming this Australian side an inexperienced and young side. Well it is not the most inexperienced, young or weakest side Australia ever played. In the 80s, when Greg Chappel, D Lille and R Marsh left; that one was a weak one for sometime until Alan Border took over and transformed the team. After that era; Australia always had X factor in their team and lately their team was into superb groove almost winning everything. Below is a chart of number of test matches both teams have played: C Rogers: 14 = A Shehzad: 5 D Warner: 30 = M Hafeez = 36 Maxwell: 2 = Azhar A: 34 M Clarke: 105 = Younis: 91 S Smith: 20 = Misbah: 48 M Marsh: 0 = Asad S: 28 B Haddin: 57 = Sarfraz: 8 M Johnson: 59 = Rahat: 4 N Lyon: 33 = Zulfiqar B: 2 P Siddle: 53 = Yasir Shah: 0 M Starc: 12 = Imran K: 0 Australia: 385 = Pakistan: 256 Its a massive difference of 129 test matches experience! Before the series started; Pakistan only had Younis and Misbah as world class test cricketers while Australia had proven champion test players in M Clarke, M Johnson, P Siddle, B Haddin and D Warner. Still Pakistan played as a unit led from the front by the Captain cool. Let Mibsah play with the following One Day Side and see the difference in World Cup: 1: A Shehzad 2: Azhar Ali 3: Younis Khan 4: Misbah ul Haq [C] 5: Asad Shafiq 6: Mohammad Hafeez 7: Sarfraz Ahmed [WK] 8: Bilawal Bhatti 9: Yasir Shah 10: Wahab Riaz 11: Mohammad Irfan 12: Zulfiqar Babar 13: Umar Akmal 14: Sohail Tanveer I wouldnt have a non performing, inconsistent, arrogant and misfit Afridi in my team ever. - Basit Subhani
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:40:14 +0000
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