....that may be true but they certainly are looking in the opposite direction.

Captain alone cannot do miracles. It is very easy to blame PCB, Misbah, prevalent corruption in the selection process, etc.But it is the dearth of quality players (batsmen particularly) in Pakistan which is responsible for poor show. You can try all new/inexperienced players or all old horses or combination of old and new, but so long you cannot produce good batsmen, this poor show will continue. It is so strange that you don't have any one better than Misbah at the moment and you are not showing respect to him. You need one tuk tuk player at one end so that other boom booms can play attacking game at the other end. But this is not happening. Your defeat margins look respectable because of tuk tuk score only.

Mr. Misbah stop glorying yourself, 90% of your runs were just for the records, when needed you do not score according to the situation, one way it is a sign of negative personality you have, the one who glorifies himself is right person, it should have been cricket lovers who should have said this.

My Dear Misbah: Pl try to understand why everyone is still blaming your defensive approach whilst you are the highest run getter. You should be knowing the reasons more than anybody else. Slowing down the game at wrong points buids pressure for lesser skilled batsmen and at the same time the opposition gets strength and confidence by reducing the run rate. Generally the youger batsmen in Pakistan cricket team are very good but they are finding it impossible to take the scoring pressure which seniors should do. Generally, the younger batsmen in Pkistan sid

Misbah is far ahead of any other member of the present Team. He should be in the T20 as well. Mr Zaka made a BIG BLUNDER by making the average HAFEEZ as Captain of T20.

Sir, In a recent chat show with PCB chairman the face of Misbah said so much about his inability to read the game and lead the side from the front. His statement that whether fans want him to return as a runner should act as a final nail in the coffin of his leadership credential. A captain should know how to get the best out of their side whereas Misbah showed his utter inability to inspire his side out of their misery and kept on beating about the bush to defend his lack of inspirational leadership. With the PCB entangled in legal matters and not interested to make tough decisions the future of Pakistan cricket looks bleak. Regards, Hyder

Mr. Misbah, please don't bring Inzamam in this futile discussion. Inzamam has been named the most impactful batsman. His continued presence at the crease was always viewed as a threat for the opposition. Ian Chappel called him the "human calculator" who was always aware of the situation. Your problem is exactly that, you are hardly ever aware of the situation. Remember the 2007 T20 WC final? Remember the 2011 ODI WC semi-final?

Highest number of runs mean nothing if we do not win matches. What surprises me is we keep calling back players we dump and expect them to win games for us. Our team has in the past and still lacks consistent good performance.

Not only your team whole country will behind you just need to change your apporach.

Mr najam sethi, is using Misbah as a scapegoat for the failures of the team, for which he is the first one to be held accountable. Even went on to take an interview of Misbah,and made him the center of attention. Misbah, and the whole team deserves criticism, but this scumbag is a far greater culprit than the players.

Disgraceful abuse of power against a perfect gentleman. A lion leading a pack of chickens.There is no Yonus/Yousaf/Inzi backed by Shoaib/Gul/Saqlain to compare him with Inzimam. Not only we have worst lot of batsmen, current is the worst lot of bowlers ever in the history of Islam. Misbah retirement would be disater for Pakistan cricket. May be the Mafia who wants cricket matches manipulated and fixed is becoming powerful again. As far Sethi--You certainly have disgraced yourself.

dont worry Misbah. We dont deserve leaders. we need glamorous Captain and you are lacking in it. Who cares about your game. Try to understand the psyche of our nation. You have to hire a person who can take care of your PR and than media.

Why blame Misbah alone? I feel Misbah has done a great job leading from front. But players like Afridi and the rest What are they doing? I feel its a high time that players like Afridi should be kept in the team? HUH!!!

Misbah, If the entire team is behind you then why your plan did not work out during the current matches? It is highly unlikely that the entire team is behind you as you claim like any other feel good dictator. The team selection itself speaks volume about your false claim that the entire team is behind you. Do you think there is not a single person who does not cringe on his exclusion from the team while back to back and proven failure of Nasir Jamshed, Umar Amin and Hafeez. There is no denying that the buddy system is alive and thriving under your captaincy.

The PCB should grill the players specially the batsmen instead of Misbah.

Najam sethi who has been awarded the post of PCB chief for his services to PMLn as acting chief minister of punjab during the general elections has no moral right to interview and criticize a hero. Misbah instead pushed Sethi to the wall. Misbah should remain be the captain and Sethi should be shown the door.

SICK of people criticising misbah for slow strike rate. No other joker can stay like him till the end. stuff it. he ties one end down and if some else shows up to the party he can start hitting the ball. most critics haven't even played decent country cricket to understand what it means when your wickets are falling like dominos on the other end!

I will not blame Misbah even for a second. the number of runs he has scored over the past few months is more than any other Pakistani batsmen. We have to understand that no matter who the captain is (unless its Imran Khan), everybody is bloated with pride and jealousy. I cannot imagine the Pakistan team to be handled easily at all. Criticizing the captain because of the team's failure is just foolish. We should start KICKING out all the non-performers, and NO MORE parchi system. I Support you Misbah.

At present there is no one else who can be the captain. Else bring Yonius Khan and make him the captain. Play Misbah as a regular player. In any case we need batting to be stronger.

Criticism against Misbah's slow going can only be valid if all other batsmen were performing just as indians do. Misbah is a great player, actually the only one to grace the team at this moment.

Unfortunately your mental state is not accepting what really is wrong with you and the rest of the team members. Well honestly we (as a nation) are not realizing what really is wrong with us. Learn to criticize yourself before being defensive about your self. If the results are not good, you must realize there is something wrong, and how to fix it. if you think you're doing everything right then that's the firs thing to fix before fixing other areas of weaknesses. If so many people are complaining about lack of cleverness in your captaincy, lack of aggressiveness in your captaincy; why don't you understand. And if you think you're doing everything right then look closely at the results, not just yours but your team's. Your score doesn't matter if the overall result is still a failure for the team.

Looks like everybody wants a piece of the captain. Nobody is looking at other BIG STARS like misfire Afridi or confused Hafeez or over rated Umer Akmal who all have performed miserably and failed the nation time time again. It is about time that these big stars should be axed from all types of cricket for good. It is obvious like daylight that these big stars are not cooperating and have made it a point to fail the captain. Young guns in the team know that they are in the team due to their regional clouts and therefore cannot go against the big stars. Consequently Misbah has a team which does not want to play under his captaincy and big stars think that they are better than him in leading whereas they all have already proved otherwise.

The PCB chief is asking question from his team captain in the capacity of a TV moderator ?

Misbah may be whole team behind you but it's look like if whole Pakistan after you.... Cricket fan from India.

The Whole team is After You

Misbah, Please remain in the team as a batsman but resign as a captain. Leadership is not in you as we saw at Dubai and will soon see in South Africa.

Blaming and finger pointing Captain and players are not going to fix the problem which our team is facing. It's all about Team work, if our team have that they can perform better and hungry to win. In any team if you see that you can see there performance and players happy playing the game. In my opinion (if I am not wrong), Team Captain, Coach and players need to sit down and talk about the whole series. Find out watching the video of their performance and figure out what's happened and what they all need to do to fix the issue. Shahid Afridi, Hafeez, Sohaib, Ajmal, Umar Akmal and Razzak, they all are playing for a while. So what went wrong??? The new comers are going to follow their seniors. I mean Nasir Jamshed before this series was playing great. Seeing him taking the cover drive and hook shots was great. Now how they were failing; well all other National Team watch Videos of each players and see what's the weak point of those players. And then they try to pitch them those delivery which that player is weak. Did anyone in our team try to watch videos of SA players and see if they can do different to make that player struggle?? And lastly, WHO IS A LEADER IN OUR TEAM??? I personally don't see that Fire in our National Team to Win a game or a Series and I don't like to compare our team to any other National Team cause it is not Fair either. If anyone remember SA Team was also struggling but they find out what was the problem and they fix it. What will be Pakistani Cricket Team Plan going forward??? If BCCP need any feed back ask Imran Khan, how his Team was winning?? We have so many great players Wasim, Waqar, Imran, Javed, Zaheer, Abdul Qadeer (the spinner of his time, no one consulted him for spin blowing training Tahir (SA Spin Blower took training from Qadeer)). We have people who can train our Team to be on the Top. Is BCCP even trying to ask these players to help the National Team??? Beside Politics and Blame Game. I remember Imran Khan only keep those players who can perform otherwise they can take a bus back home. Remember guys Cricket a game where only Team work can work not blaming, finger pointing or politics.

@Prabir: Mibah = Good "individual" performer Misbah = hopeless captain and mentor

Misbah was often the main reason when Pakistan won matches in the recent past and he is the man who more often than not secured them some respect in defeat. Yet people are after his head. Strange indeed!

I support Misbah 100% and consider him the only decent batsman pakistan has. But he must consider peoples concerns. Actually, people do not understand that most of the teams have a batsman who plays a bit slower than other but on the other hand he is the one with the resposibility to keep one end going. For example take the example where South Africa has Kalis for the same job. Problem with our team is that all of them including Hafeez, Umar Amin, Asad Shafiq, Younis all are slow movers. The team starts with an asking rate of 5 and end up with 8 or 9 when the last batsman and the allrounders arrive in 40+th over and so they crumble under the pressure of hitting sixes. They need to change their approach.

The biggest problem is PCB, an impotent organization who cant even arrange a couple of A-team tours so that our talent can check their strengths against other nations in the alian conditions. All other teams are playing U23 and A-team cricket but PCB who needed it most is sleeping.

Misbah...u must a very nice person and have never done anyone wrong, but u r just not the right person to lead our team...u play the game like you are out for an evening stroll at a park with other senior citizens...please stop fighting the administration and put in some effort while at the pitch...but then again older you get harder it is for you to change...so might as well just move on and give others a chance!

In the Rest of the WORLD, the Leader always takes the Responsibility. He takes the Blame,But NOT in Pakistan,they look for SCAPEGOATS.the Pakistani performance must be the fault of the Opposing Teams,they keep playing as a TEAM!

The interesting thing to notice is that in the current ICC ranking, Misbah is the only batsmen from Pakistan who is in top 10 of both Test and ODI. Another Ironic thing to be noticed is that Hafeez and Shahid Afridi are in the top 10 all rounders of both ODI and T20I. So are we too critical or upset about the present form of these cricketers or is it really true that they lack the heroics that are needed to win matches. The rankings referred to can be found on this link and these are current rankings. The batting abilities of both Afridi and Hafeez annoy me a lot too.

@Mudassar Siddiq: The younger batsmen have been tested in all situations a lot of overs and for a short stay finish. They just feel so nervous in all situations. We need a psychologist in the team who can talk to these players that the matches need to be fought till the end. There shoulders down approach as soon as they find that te top order has collapsesd and now they can blame others or Misbah's slow batting. A cricket team always has players who bat at no. 6 and 7. These positions are also part of the batting order. And a lot of times these positions are very critical because coming to bat here means you are part of the plan B if the batting collapses.

"The whole team is behind me..". Is the pun intended? Hopefully no innuendos here. :)

@ Mudassar Siddiq:In the last 20 years how many captains you were satisfied with, give me one name, and what other options do you have if you think that Misbah is not good enough. Everybody is overlooking aspect which is coaching, Pakistan has not won a single test series under Whatmore

The role of captain is very limited in cricket. Misbah's misfortune is that he is always being compared with Dhoni. In Dhoni's team there is sufficient availability of good consistent world class batsman as a result of which Dhoni is getting good result. There is nothing extra-ordinary human traits which Dhoni has and which Misbah lacks. Rather there is lot of similarities between them. A captain cannot be expected to teach how to stay and score runs. If you put Misbah in Dhoni's place or vice-versa, the result will remain same. Without good quality batsmen, you cannot win matches. This is so simple yet you keep on blaming PCB, Misbah, Coach, old experienced players etc. or at times conspiracy by others. Nothing succeeds like success. With same set up you could win world cup and you can perform better in SA than what we have seen recently in UAE. Have believe in yourselves.

I am sick and tired of people going against the competent people in Pakistan. Misbah doesnt have the flashiness but he has the responsibility, which is required in a leader.Did the word responsibility even go past the likes of Afridi, Hafeez, Umer Akmal etc?Always Misbah comes in to do a fire fighting job when the top other incompetents have contributed zero and the lower half are ever willing to come and show their colorful incompetence. Lets be honest Can any other team in the world even zimbabwae & Bangladesh tolerate a player like afridi all these years?So if you want Flashiness without responsibility then go right ahead, soon the top tier teams wont be avoiding us on security rather they wouldn't want to lower their standards by playing us .

@Nasir: I agree with NASIR that a psychologist is required. But again, it is the job of the management, in which captain is the most important person, that they should identify the need of a psychologist and provide them. If, for instance, can not get a psychologist, then they should use their own wisdom and guide youngsters. Instead of just smile at their failure and say **"" pahunch to gaiyay ho magar abhi itnay baray nahi hoyay""**

Dear Misbah lovers, plz see the stats of team, how it is declining since misbah became the captin, now pligh of team is that it cannot score 10 runs in 50 balls with many wickets in hand....Misbah might be a good player but there is no doubt that he is very bad captin, he has brought team to the point where it does not find suitable players to be included, old horses are called back.....ironically he has compared his team with Bangladesh team, what a high standard :)

What can One Misbah ,do when you have street players in the team? The Pak players are not fit to play any international matches in big stadiums. PCB should find some good consistent players who can stay on the wicket and score some 70-80 runs at least , not the players who score 10-20 and if some players who think scoring 30+ in one single match can have their place permanent in team should be kicked out immediately. Pak team had so many good coaches in the past few years but still the result is aweful, after the exit of saaed anwar, sohail, ijaz & Inzamam, , there were no players who have played continiously for atleast 10-15 years, PCB should ponder about it.

The problem is not Misbah as a player but Misbah as a Captain. But again you don't have any one at present who can lead the team effectively.

Yes, the whole cricket team is behind him but only to give him a final push into oblivion.

This is the problem with all pakistani fans. Keep complaining !! Pls look at the records of all the old horses in the pakistani team. Mishbah is the top pakistani batsman in ODI and ranked No. 9. Hafeez is No. 1 ODI all rounder and No.2 Twenty20 all rounder. Afridi is No.7 ODI all rounder and No. 5 Twenty20 all rounder. These so called old horses are the ones who are really giving some semblance of international quality to the Pakistani team. Where are the so called youngsters ? where is their performance ? stop complaining and support your heroes like India supported Sachin and its other cricketing heroes.

Misbah should have been fired the day Pakistan lost World cup to India. He is neither a good player nor a good captain for one day or 20/20. They need to run Pakistan Cricket like a private organization with opportunities for those who perform and deliver results and are held accountable for their actions. It's time for Misbah to go.

Misbah, you are the best captain/batsman in this team of jokers and without you they will not be able to beat even Ireland and Scotland.

Why did he have to make such a statement? Says it all

@Tariq: Obviously, a person does not want a leader who tries to enforce his ideas onto others. I think Misbah has this problem, as he might want other batsmen to play like him, so he deserves to be kicked out of the Pakistani team as a captain because his strategy can only be practicable in tests.