Easy for arm-chair fans to make such statements but how easy is it get new talent into the national setup without risking failure?

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Does Shoaib Maliks performance in CPLT20 remind us of what he could have done for Pakistani cricket?

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Surely we aren't at the top. If you had to rank selection committees, where would ours be? What factors would you use for your rankings?

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I want you to explain captaincy and leadership in cricket in your own words based on different factors not stats only or by by saying Captain A is better thn Captain B because he got a better W/L ratio... 

If you want you can pick any captain from past or present for example Sobers, Brearley, Llyod, Imran, Border, Taylor, Waugh, Ponting, Dhoni or anyone to explain your points let's have a healthy debate instead of another derailed thread...


I want to include some words by different captains here...


A captain must make every decision before he knows what its effect will be, and he must carry the full responsibility, not whether his decision will be right or wrong, but whether it brings success. Don Bradman


Some of the great players haven't been great captains because they haven't been able to understand the struggle. You have to have an empathy for other players. Mike Brearley


Batting captains never had a clue about bowlers. Most captaincy is done on the field. As a bowler I was far better equipped to deal with that than batting captains. The only batting captain I rated was Ian Chappell. He had a very good cricket mind and could deal with bowlers well. Apart from him, very few were good because they didn't understand bowlers. Because I was a bowling captain, I taught Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis from scratch. They had hardly played any first-class cricket and I would tell them what to do every ball because I had been through the process myself. I would set their fields and I would tell them what to think. Imran Khan

The captain has to pull together ten different individuals with contrasting personalities and personality traits and get them all going in the same direction by treating them equally but differently. Steve Waugh

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Imran Khan Vs Dhoni Vs Ponting.... Who is a better leader???

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For me, it's all 3 of them.  But if I really had to choose one, it'd be ODIs, as I'm really excited to see how the likes of Umar Amin, Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Ahmed Shehzad, etc. perform if given a chance! Also, the ODI squad for this tour is a squad in which most (if not all) players are selected on merit.

What about you?

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Shoaib has bowled 107 deliveries at sachin and has conceded 63 runs dismissing him thrice in 8 innings.

Shoaib average = 21
Shoaib S/R = 35

SRT average = 8.25
SRT S/R = 25

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Pakistan continued their powerful unbeaten streak and remain impressive with both bat and ball. Clearly they are the better team out of the three teams in this tournament. They have consistently done well in all of the matches so far. This is some very promising young talent on show.

Is Tim Bresnan underrated? Where does he rank for you as a bowler?

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Is Australia's collapse the most memorable in recent times?

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