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Originally Posted by Mr K
Brilliant bowling at the end by Broad and Dernbach. Didn't give England a hope of defending that score. How do they keep so cool ? Not like the England teams of old. Maybe the team psychologist does earn his money....
Pakistan supporters are a bit hard on their team. Can't believe they want to get rid of a captain who has just beaten the no 1 side in World 3-0 in test matches , which is still by far the most important format of the game. Maybe they should have a different captain for one dayers like England do (Afridi ?)
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I think Misbah is a good test captain and a excellent batsman but he is not suited to T20. I'd drop him from T20 all together, I think today was a classic example of average captaincy and no urgency. I don't see him motivating his troops in this short format.
With regard to t20, you can see from the turnouts in the UAE that the short form of cricket is much more appealing to the pakistani supporters. I think it is because generally a lot feel that Pakitan can be genuine world beaters in t20. And they love the attacking flair. Also Afridi still generates such a buzz, we don't see that in test cricket for any other Pkistani player. Hardly anyone expected Pakistan to win the tests 3-0, but the expectation for the t20 was much higher.