Professor’s performance (The News- October 13, 2012)
Muhammad Hafeez’s captaincy in the recently concluded T20 World Cup has left a lot to be desired. He made many wrong decisions and seemed to lack good leadership qualities. Despite having authentic openers of the likes of Kamran Akmal and Nasir Jamshaid in the line-up, he ironically kept on opening the batting himself. He slowed down the run rate and this needlessly built pressure on the batsmen. The T20 matches need aggressive performance, and thus openers should be genuine stroke-players.
Australia is an example worth-mentioning in this regard: they open their batting with two genuine attackers. Moreover, Hafeez is also accused of dropping key players in key games. It is perhaps high time that we brought necessary changes to our cricketing structure. We do not lack talent, what we need is proper nurturing and utilisation of talent.
Amir Ikram
Lahore
Muhammad Hafeez’s captaincy in the recently concluded T20 World Cup has left a lot to be desired. He made many wrong decisions and seemed to lack good leadership qualities. Despite having authentic openers of the likes of Kamran Akmal and Nasir Jamshaid in the line-up, he ironically kept on opening the batting himself. He slowed down the run rate and this needlessly built pressure on the batsmen. The T20 matches need aggressive performance, and thus openers should be genuine stroke-players.
Australia is an example worth-mentioning in this regard: they open their batting with two genuine attackers. Moreover, Hafeez is also accused of dropping key players in key games. It is perhaps high time that we brought necessary changes to our cricketing structure. We do not lack talent, what we need is proper nurturing and utilisation of talent.
Amir Ikram
Lahore
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