Twenty20 will 'finish' Pakistan cricket - Mohammad Yousuf

[PotterManiac]

They are blaming the only format they are good at

[Sachinism]

They are blaming the only format they are good at

:haha: Killing T20 will kill Pakistani cricket. What matches will they win? :dontknow:

[PotterManiac]

:haha: Killing T20 will kill Pakistani cricket. What matches will they win? :dontknow:

No Idea.

[CSK Fan]

I think he has a point. 20/20 success (and Pak has been successful in this format) has taken the focus away from how bad the team has been in other formats. They dont remember that they lost to NZ in ODIs becuase they won the 20/20 2-0. Imagine if Pak had not won the 20/20 cup and Afridiw as out of the team as a result? The whole team would have been crucified and revamped by now

[king2be98]

Other countries do play a lot of T20 but none of them are as good and as consistent as Pakistan. In fact if you look at the records and bowling and batting stats, there is daylight between Pakistan and the next best teams. What does this mean? Well it means MoYo has some validity to his comment. Pakistani fans have been discussing defending their world T20 titles for months now, but hardly anyone except the purists, have been talking about how to beat Aus in Aus.

[PotterManiac]

A good professional team should be able to play all the formats. Now, even if Pakistan win a match in Australia and loose their way through T20's, its not good. They should be cope up with a minimum level of consisency in all the formats

[cowboysfan]

if the pakis really dont want to play test cricket then its their prerogative,just stop subjecting the rest of the world to their crappy performances.

[Asim]

1: It don’t make any rule to not criticize T20 if you ever played ICL, IPL or whatsoever, so he have all the rights… 2: He is talking about overall change in Pakistani mindset, not the individuals who participated in T20 or otherwise. 3: He is subjecting only Pakistan not the whole world. 4: If you check it statistically, there is a clear Downfall in Pakistan's winning graph after first T20WC, so he raised an obvious point... (Yeah please don’t be oversmart by saying it was not good even before cz everyone knows the fact that earlier it was way better). 5: He didn't asked to simply remove T20s, just said to reduce it to have more ODIs n Test matches, so if you feel it just a madness or as you say, then Pak wont have anything to win cz they are only good in T20s, its simply a crap logic... Because the purpose itself is to improve ODI n Test wins...

[kabira]

make him T20 captain as well LOL

[vvvslaxman]

Salman Butt has been playing for ages. Why is he averaging just 29 and still playing Test cricket?

[Karan114]

How much T20 cricket do the likes of Farhat, Misbah, Faisal, Butt play outside of internationals, anyways? These players are simply not good enough for Test cricket. It has nothing to do with playing too much T20 cricket. But I don't expect Yousuf or his compatriots to accept this - far easier to blame someone/something else as usual.

[sachinrox]

Salman Butt has been playing for ages. Why is he averaging just 29 and still playing Test cricket?

He is playing because hes representing Pakistan, had he been in India, he would have been guillotined to death with that average of an opening batsman :haha:

[Macj]

He tried the format , he tested the format, he was found to be deficient at the format, thus he wants to eradicate the format for his peers. When he ditched Pakistan to play ICL wasn't he worried about Test cricket getting finished off there? This guy is the latest disgrace to come out of that shytehole.

[jf1gp_1]

Other countries do play a lot of T20 but none of them are as good and as consistent as Pakistan. In fact if you look at the records and bowling and batting stats' date=' there is daylight between Pakistan and the next best teams. What does this mean? Well it means MoYo has some validity to his comment. Pakistani fans have been discussing defending their world T20 titles for months now, but hardly anyone except the purists, have been talking about how to beat Aus in Aus.[/quote'] So why isnt Pak giving up test cricket ? If Moyos is a justified excuse then ponting should keep harping about how players retiring resulted in losing No 1 test ranking after every loss.

[vvvslaxman]

Yousuf just tries to over-simply a gigantic problem. Pakistan's batting in the first innings was anything but T20 nature. It was an abominally slow scoring rate even by Test match standards.

[Karan114]

Yousuf just tries to over-simply a gigantic problem. Pakistan's batting in the first innings was anything but T20 nature. It was an abominally slow scoring rate even by Test match standards.

Absolutely, they have a systematic problem of failing to produce Test class batsmen. As I mentioned earlier, how much T20 cricket are the likes of Misbah and Faisal playing outside international games (actually I don't think Faisal even plays internationals). These guys are well, well short of the standard required for Test cricket, yet here they are, selected as two of the six best Test batsmen in Pakistan. But it wouldn't be Pakistan or Pakistanis if they admitted their own problems, so in this case their captain starts rubbishing T20 cricket even though he himself ditched Test cricket for a B-grade T20 league!

[TheWall]

Am sure most of the pakis r confused n cannot find difference b/w a T20, 50 ove ODI, or a Test match...

[ESPN]

Yousuf blames T20 for Sydney loss Yousuf blames T20 for Sydney loss Embattled Pakistan captain Mohd Yousuf blamed T20 for his team's bizarre defeat in the Sydney Test against Australia. Chasing 176 for a win, Pakistan imploded in their second innings for just 139 and Yousuf had no doubt that some of the players are interested only in Twenty20 and lacked the Test match temperament. "We had a golden chance to finally beat Australia in Australia and we let it go ourselves due to poor batting. I think the target of 176 runs was perfectly gettable on the Sydney pitch on the fourth day of the Test," Yousuf said. "I get a feeling that most of the players are more interested in playing Twenty20 cricket. There is no doubt that Twenty20 cricket is affecting the ability of batsmen to play long innings in Test matches and it is something we need to look at in Pakistan," he said. Even before the Test match, Yousuf had warned that Twenty20 would ruin Pakistan cricket since batsmen are getting fast money playing in lucrative tournaments and did not bother to play Test cricket. Incidentally, it was Yousuf's defensive tactics that let Australia off the hook in the second Test, prompting former players to demand sacking of the captain. Yousuf, meanwhile, felt the team badly needed a batting coach. "When the team can have a bowling and fielding coach, why not a batting coach? A batting coach can definitely help the players focus on their job and guide them in working out minor faults in their technique," he said. The Pakistan captain said there was a pall of gloom in the dressing room after then defeat but he had avoided scolding the players. "If you do something like that after such a bad defeat, you only further dampen the spirit and morale of the team," he said. Yousuf has also come in for criticism for supporting wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal who dropped four catches, missed a run out and struggled for runs in the Sydney Test. Yousuf had said that he could not drop Kamran as there was no ready replacement for him in the team neither was there a reserve keeper on the tour. Incidentally, the selectors announced on Thursday that they are sending keeper Sarfaraz Ahmed to Australia to play the third Test in Hobart.

[King Tendulkar]

I really believe Yousuf Youhanna would have made a better captian. Unfortunatley he would never have got the chance to do it!

[MUMBAISKIPPER]

If T20 cricket will finish NaPak cricket then why this "converted" moollah played ICL??