Form is temporary but class is permanent, Moin Khan talks about http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Malik-c90088 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 has justified his selection.
The 30-year-old has gone through some controversies in the last three years and has not played a lot of international cricket. Since making a return to the national side last year, the middle-order batsman from Sialkot has miserably looked off-colour.
The former Pakistan captain was dropped from the limited-over squad after the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. However, some brilliant performances in different domestic tournaments tempted the selectors to give him another opportunity and he was chosen in the T20
squad for the Sri Lankan tour.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482, which proved to
be the turning point of the match.
Moin, in his article for Dawn, expressed that Shoaib is a quality cricketer and has been a prolific performer in domestic as well as international sport. The former wicketkeeper/batsman is of the opinion that the all-rounder showed his class in
the little cameo against the Islanders, under trying circumstances.
“Malik is a very high-calibre player. He is a very sensible guy. We have seen some great performances from him in the recent domestic T20 tournaments and let’s not forget his performances for Pakistan. As they say, form is temporary but class is permanent.
He was able to justify his selection in the team in the second match and should be given time,” said the former skipper.
He further added that Malik has been a great servant of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket in the past and the team management must give him confidence to overcome his form issues, rather than putting question marks over his place in the side.
“He is one of those players who have made their mark for Pakistan. Such players should be backed by the management and selectors instead of to trying to push them out of the team,” Moin added.
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