Comments on: Pakistan need to rethink Misbah’s place in team: Gavaskar

By: KarachiFrog

KarachiFrog — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:16:41 +0000

Agree with that. Umar has genuine talent. He also has had the misfortune to bat in the middle order too often with Misbah as his partner. Someone has to score the runs & if Misbah refuses to, someone else has to. Umar is too often forced to take risks & it’s pathetic that the captain places these additional pressures on his younger players.

By: KarachiFrog

KarachiFrog — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:01:13 +0000

Pakistan didn’t lose that game fighting. It was a whimpish feeble defeat that should have had no chance of happening after the great start to the innings. However Misbah put paid to that.

By: KarachiFrog

KarachiFrog — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:55:03 +0000

Pakistan won the series despite Misbah’s inclusion, and lost the last game because of it.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:59:00 +0000

Who can forget the innings he played in Mohali? rewind a few years back and you can see what he did in South Africa in t20 final. He is over his peak, just dragging on and keeping the door shut on some deserving youngsters. PCB should seriously decide to ask Misbah to retire from the ODIs. He can play in tests as long as his form is there. Its an irony that he was overlooked at a younger age, but, at that time we had a very formidable middle order,

By: Faisal

Faisal — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:48:28 +0000

no cheats please. We ca win without them. Pakistan won 92 WC without one of the greatest bowlers ever to grace the field i.e Waqar Younis, we can stil do it without these two cheats

By: tanveer mahmood

tanveer mahmood — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:08:37 +0000

If you look carefully just see what the team runrate is when Naasir,Hafeez are batting and Misbah just comes in and starts digging a hole for the whole team with his strike rate 50 and 60 which is totally unacceptable in ODIs.
Middle order batsmen are very big players they are century makers and they take the game away from the opposition they dont sink their own team !

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:15:43 +0000

Yeah, he did steady Pakistan cricket and the team, but things have moved on since then. Its time now for Misbah to hand the reins to Hafeez.

I don’t have a problem with him as a captain, if he had a place in the team to begin with! Its about time we gave others extended runs, Azhar Ali can develop into a good ODI batsman and the poor Hammad Azam, when will he ever get a chance! he is a decent enough batsman

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:09:36 +0000

hunh? Asif? seriously? are you kidding?! That guy is a farce, a habitual wrong doer!

By: Abid Mahmud Ansari

Abid Mahmud Ansari — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:33:05 +0000

This is Gavaskar’s personal opinion. Every one has his right to give his opinion,whether anyone agrees or not. Once again, Pakistan cricket team snatched defeat from the jaws of victory! Now that World Cup is round the corner, Its high time that PCB should help restore Mohammad Amir and Asif. If that happened, then, Pakistan’s bowling attack will be able to demolish any batting line up in the game, it’ll be a World beater team, will achieve many “grand slams” in the future.

By: Ali Khalid

Ali Khalid — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:19:11 +0000

Some players aren’t just born for fast pace games, we have an excellent example of Justin Langer from Australia, he was a regular pick along with Mathew Hayden for Test Matches, but he was not playing ODIs. Misbah can play a key role in Test matches playing at number 3 or 4 for Pakistan, as there are no doubts on his defense and technique but when it comes to scoring runs at some “Required rate” Misbah just doesn’t work there … Sunny is right Hafeez should replace him in ODIs