This insane selection of non-performing players makes the team highly unbalanced, more prone to getting out early.
LAHORE: Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has again selected all those batsmen for the ICC Champions Trophy tournament in England, who are known failures for quality bowling, namely Misbahul Haq, Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal. Kamran Akmal is also known for his below average wicket-keeping.
This insane selection of non-performing players makes the team highly unbalanced and even more prone to getting out on paltry scores than it already is. As such, with the inclusion of the above-mentioned three players, now only a miracle can save the national team from a humiliating, early exit from the Champions Trophy.
Syed Nayyaruddin Ahmad
Published in The Express Tribune, May 2nd, 2013.
