Now a tell you about leader and leadership. One thing is very clear about leader that you cannot make leaders. a leader is a leader by birth. secondly he should not only be brave in decision making but also have the ability to make right decisions because decision making has four types 1. right decision at right time 2. Right decision wrong time 3. wrong decision right time 4. wrong decision wrong time. Great leader have the quality to make right decision at right time. third he should be a sincere person. there are many other qualities that a leader must have but in cricketing sense the leader also have the quality to judge the player’s ability. Imran khan and wasim akram both have many of the above mentioned qualities and many others.
in Pakistan the captaincy is given to the senior member of the team and that is the worst thing we do. our think tank in PCB (which i consider as empty tanks) don’t have any ability of leadership. there is nobody in Pakistan who asked from PCB chairman that on which bases they announced shoab malik, younis khan and now Muhammad Yousaf as captain. while inzi was a good captain but not a great captain. if PCB take a good decision to make a captain for a long time then they pick a wrong person and took the decision. and same the case is with whole Pakistan. they stood up for younis when he resigned from captaincy, who is a very dull minded captain and don;t have the sense of decision making don’t have the ability to judge the players ability. but no one stood up for inzi’s resign just because of that he lost the match against Ireland.

i think its taking too long and may be you don’t read all this so in short i just want to say that now there is only one man in Pakistan team who can lead the team in all three forms of cricket and that is Shahid Khan Afridi. he shown his abilities of a good captain and i am sure that he would become a great leader if he given a chance of leading the team.

after your response i will discuss many other things about cricket with you. and one thing i must say is that winning or loosing is not a big matter the matter is that your decision must be right
I will also discuss the batting order of Pakistan and team selection later.

and in last i would say that, i consider Imran Khan as a great captain and leader not only for winning world cup but for his leadership qualities and he is the only person who can put Pakistan out of these crises.

Best regards

Sheraz Hamid Sohail

You may well be right that “Afridi has indirectly admitted that Malik was playing regional politics”. But directly he also said this:

1. The squad was united, each player had the identical aim [of winning the title for Pakistan] and this thing helped us in the latter stages”

2. Answering a question on speculations of divisions in the team, which have gathered attention after shocking batting collapses in the ongoing Test series in Sri Lanka, Afridi said he didn’t know about any groupings.

So, different perception here.

One of the reason I admire Younus is that as Afridi says he is “Younus never considers from which province or city a player is coming”. Malik on the other hand is susceptible to regional politics and condemnable though it is but that is different to a group trying to lose the match deliberately. You make a group to consolidate your place not to jeopardise it by loosing. It is just as I am convinced that Yousuf, Younus and Fawad etc hoped and tried to score well in every innings but that didn’t happen as opposition has their own ideas and plans. If the best cannot do what they wish then mediocre ones are no match. Their failures do not necessarily mean an agenda of losing. The best way to have an agenda as a player is to do best for yourself in every innings, an impossible task even for the best players.

Omer

“Now lets hope it doesn’t take him another 40 innings to bring up another 100. He should build on his performance from here…”

Nice thoughts!

I don’t know why Afridi made a decision to not play. His contribution would have helped. I think he was worried that because of this grouping he will remain out of the playing XI. It can’t be because of Kaneria because Kaneria only got to play in the 3rd Test and Pakistan was always going to go with 3 pacers at least in the 1st Test.

I think the next time Pakistan plays a Test will be in December. It is disappointing that Malik will be in that series again.

The reason why Malik got this century today is because he started playing T20 cricket as soon the new ball was changed. If they select players due to merit and people can identify what roles should be given to whom, having Afridi at no 6 can prove invaluable. Even in Tests it is now handy to have a player who can dominate any kind of bowling, made 30 quick runs, and take wickets at regular intervals, which he is now capable of doing. His overall utility is much better than Malik in Tests.

Having Fawad Alam/Asim Kamal or someone like that at no 5, and Afridi at no 6 can help Pakistan much more. At least the players will give their 100% and not play politics.

And since their ring-leader (Malak) played well, so did the Chhota-Chetan (Misbah) and Bacha Jamoora (Kamran Akmal).

Rather then a group, it’s more like a gang.

I am surprised, flabbergasted Malik hit a 100!

Now lets hope it doesn’t take him another 40 innings to bring up another 100. He should build on his performance from here, and as Javed Khan implied, play with a lot more heart for the team.

The other thing is, Pakistan might play their home test matches in England, so he certainly needs to conquer his weaknesses against pace and the moving ball. I have no problem with his place in the team so long as he can get more consistent with these sort of performances.

However, the question still is, who will be dropped when Afridi returns. I feel, more than any format, Afridi will be best utilized in test matches. He averages around 37 with the bat, and can be a Kumble sort of legspinner. In other words, Afridi can be a genuine all rounder, provided he bats at no.5 or no.6. In my opinion either of Malik or Misbah should still be dropped, as with Afridi the team gets a better balance.

I have seen many Pakistani girls in bikinis and also birthday suits. But her face looks Pakistani- like from Punjab or Kashmir side. Or let us say she does not look “Indian” in that she does not have typical Indian features.

You said, She has “Pakistani looks”

How did you know that form her bikini picture ? How many Pakistan girls have you seen in a bikini ?

Fawad must play and he should not open, neither in ODIs nor in Tests. I agree with Awas, if he opened for once and sacrificed himself, it does not mean we should now penalise him and try to change in entire game. He should play at his position of 4/5/6 and should be used as part-time bowler as well.

Razzaq should also make it in the all ODI teams, no matter what, before Rana or Malik.

Why the F… was he not comming out earlier and speaking out when we lost those two games so badly and the Captain was out there along trying to explain the group stupidity.

Shame on Malak and his ‘Meesna-pun’.