21st January 2014

Mohammad Yousuf recently made a comment that Misbah won't be able to score runs in England. Yousuf must have been sleeping during the Champions Trophy last year where he averaged 86.5 while others had batting averages like number 9-11 batsmen. He scored 96* in his first ODI in England in a match where 340 runs were scored and 18 wickets fell, all batsmen struggled in the match from both teams, apart from him. Also, he scored 83* vs Scotland and for Asian player to play in Scotland in May is very difficult because of the pitches and cold weather.

A lot of people might not agree with this but this is my personal opinion to why Mr Dependable is better than Yousuf in one day cricket.

1) Yousuf was a pathetic fielder. If you score 70 runs and give 30 runs in fielding then your contribution is 40 runs.
2) Yousuf was hopeless runner between the wicket. This affected batter on other end big time. So many times run out partners when taking singles. This is a big part of short format cricket.
3) Yousuf did not have responsibility of leadership to contend with.
4) Yousuf did not perform in major World tournament events, when it really matters like Misbah has in World Cup, CT or WT20.
5) Yousuf's wasn't a natural aerial hitter like Misbah, big part of one day cricket.
6) Yousuf had more quality and depth around him, less pressure.

I would definitely 100% have Misbah ahead of Yousuf in a one day team any day of the week. Even the selectors know that because they did not select Yousuf for the last World Cup and went for Misbah instead. In Tests, Yousuf has a higher profile, but Misbah's performances as a batting captain are better than that of Yousuf when he was captain. And current captain has performed at 35+ unlike Yousuf who completely faded away with age and ended his career poorly.

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