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PCB has once again surprised the world by naming Misbah Ul Haq the test captain for the upcoming two test series against South Africa.

Test squad: Imran Farhat, Taufeeq Umar, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah ul Haq (capt), Umar Akmal. Azhar Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Danish Kaneria, Abdur Rehman, Zulqarnain Haider, Umar Gul, Tanvir Ahmed, Mohammad Sami, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir (subject to fitness).

PCB dropped Misbah from all formats of cricket almost a year ago and since then Misbah hasn’t played any competitive cricket a few months back Misbah said that he was contemplating to retire from international cricket.

But the recent spot fixing scandal opened the doors of selection for Misbah once again, PCB was never going to select Younis Khan apparently because of his differences with Ijaz Butt, Yawar Saeed, and a few key players therefore he was out of the equation, Malik is highly unpopular, Afridi refused to lead once again and Yousaf was never going to get considered for the job after the disasterous tour of Australia under his leadership.

I am not sure why PCB didn’t considered Shoaib Akhtar for the job maybe because like Younis he is free of corruption and a difficult person to be controlled as a puppet, PCB wanted a puppet and they picked one out of their trusted pool of players.

I have been against the selection of Younis, Yousaf and Misbah in the recent past because of their form and age but I think out of the three if any player could have made a positive impact on the team and pulled it out of crisis it was Younis. If PCB has back tracked from it’s policy of moving forward from the ageing players then it is highly unfair not to recall Younis.

PCB dropped Kamran Akmal and Umar Amin because they were considered to be under suspicion but then why they selected Wahab Riaz? Umar Amin was only in the frame of the movie in which Riaz was seen recieving a jacket stuffed with $10,000 from Mazhar Majeed the man who actually recieved the money gets selected and the bystander gets labelled as under suspicion thats just laughable.

Umar may not have earned a place in the team on merit but the fact that he has been dropped from the A team also clearly shows that PCB is punishing him, he was an upcoming player with a lot of potential and could have performed well on slow pitches in Dubai.

PCB has also recalled Sami, Kaneria and Taufeeq Umar. I don’t think they had any choice there but they should not have selected Kaneria as these days he just bowls rubbish.

With this bowling line up Pakistan can’t even beat Zimbabwe they can only dream of beating South Africa in the upcoming test series.

A month ago Pakistan was ranked amongst the top three teams having the best bowling line up they had depth and variety in their bowling department but with Asif and Aamer gone all of a sudden our test bowling line up looks third class.

Thanks to Ijaz Butt and his administration through corruption and poor administration they have created a situation where Pakistan will get humuiliated in cricket for a long time to come.