Flip flop decision making continues- PCB (Part 1)
The flip flop style of decision making continues for the unpredictable Pakistani cricket team, as the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board (PCB) appointed the fourth Pakistani Test captain in 2010.
Previously, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, and the controversial Salman Butt were given the task to lead the Test team. Now, Misbah Ul-Haq has been brought back from the brink of his Test career to lead the national Test squad.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972, who was dropped from all formats of the game after the Australian Tour earlier this year, was looking forward to retirement, but his career has taken a major u-turn with his comeback as Test captain. He will lead the national squad in a two
match Test series against South Africa that would commence in November, at Abu Dhabi.
The PCB has made some extremely immature decisions in the recent past. They could have lifted the life-ban on former Test skipper, Younis Khan, when the same ban was lifted from Mohammad Yousuf and he made his comeback into Test cricket in the recent English
tour.
The two veteran players were given life-bans, based on poor-performances on the tour of Australia in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391, 2010.
Appointing Mohammad Yousuf and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 as the Test skipper was another poor act of decision making. How can an employee hire a person for a job that does not match his career credentials, past record and attitude?
Yes, Afridi and Yousuf both have a history of reluctance regarding the Test captaincy task. Afridi made it very clear in a interview on Pakistani sports channel that he wasn’t comfortable going on the English tour as Test captain as the longer format of
the game never suited his style of cricket.
Enforcing decisions, decisions made on personal comfort, inner politics, and above all, how can the PCB appoint someone, who is clearly indicating that he cannot take the pressure of captaincy (Mohammad Yousuf) and doesn’t have the right attitude (Afridi)
for that matter.
More flip fop decisions were made by the Pakistani board as the new Test squad was announced on 9th of October, 2010 for the upcoming two match Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757. The squad for the series is:
Imran Farhat, Taufeeq Umar, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah ul Haq (capt), Umar Akmal. Azhar Ali, Saeed Ajmal, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danish-Kaneria-c1314, Abdur Rehman, Zulqarnain Haider, Umar Gul, Tanvir Ahmed, Mohammad Sami, Wahab Riaz, and Sohail Tanvir.
Left arm fast bowler Sohail Tanvir’s inclusion will take place if and only when he clears the fitness examination a week before the Test series.
Looking at the current Test squad several questions pop-up as to why Imran Farhat and Sohail Tanvir are included? Imran Farhat has had an extremely inconsistent Test record in the recent past. Besides the one half-century in the recent Test match win against
Australia in England, the opener has been out of form.
On the contrary, Sohail Tanvir hasn’t played a Test match since his first two matches against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in 2007, not to forget, that he has been out of the international arena in all formats for almost a year now.
Opening batsman Imran Farhat hasn’t made a single century in the 8 Test matches played by him in the year 2010. And he has only been able to reach the 100 run mark in a Test match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in Leeds on 21st July, 2010. In the last four
matches controversial English test series, the left hander has made the highest of 33 runs in a single innings.
(To be continued....in Part 2)
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