Friday 20 March 2015

This is what I mean when using undeserving and unexplainable selections to make himself look marvelous so someone else gets bashed. I can never forgive him for this. I am not even going to using the full initials of the other player because of the way he blackmailed the cricket board to get into the side. In most other countries such a player would have been banned, fined and reprimanded severely. He can screw all his Test runs as he failed to deliver in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and he used his Test form to encourage former players and the media to campaign for his selection and literally bully the chief selector into picking him, despite the chief selector categorically stating he would not be part of future plans regardless of his performance in a completely different type of cricket.

vs NZ Presidents XI

1st game
His score 100
Y score: 1
LOST

2nd game
His score: 80*
Y score: 7
LOST

NZ

1st ODI
His score: 58
Y score: 9
LOST

2nd ODI
His score: 45
Y score: 11
LOST

Warm Ups

Bangladesh
His score: 10
Y score: 25
WON

England
His score: 90*
Y score: 19
WON

Competition proper

India
His score: 76
Y score: 6
LOST

West Indies
His score: 7
Y score: 0
LOST

South Africa
His score: 56
Y score: 37
WON

9 games - Y has 115 runs with a best of 37
Same 9 games for him: 6 50s

Because of Y lack of performance they had to change team combination in the middle of the tournament, not what you want to be doing because it suggests panic. Because he didn't play in the crunch games because of his several failings beforehand, all the preparation time was wasted by playing him in the first place. And Y lack of performance was completely expected for those that don't have memories like gold fishes.

Y was not even in the best 30 probables for ICCCT2013
Then out of the blue was recalled after 1.5 years for the mega event
Indecisive selection

Afridi dropped for 2012 India tour
Recalled for 2013 South Africa tour
Dropped for ICCCT2013
Recalled for West Indies tour 2013
Indecisive selection

Scared to drop seniors?

2 of them
7 50s

More than Yousuf, Y, Inzamam and Afridi

Pakistan's leading run scorer in:
2007 World Twenty20 (just player)
2011 World Cup (vice captain)
2013 Champions Trophy (captain too)
2015 World Cup (captain too)
Best Pak batter in ICC Events ever

MSD and India won all the previous 3 listed 

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