That's a shame. It's just all a bit odd though, that he would bat at 3 in Australia, make a fighting 77 where he faced over 200 balls and now he is nowhere to be seen.
Having someone in the top order prepared to bat for long periods sounds like the exact player Pakistan are looking for.
Tell me about it Sir...
This is the sorry tale of Pakistan Cricket....When Imran says in his interview that he left the best team that Pakistan could ever have had but was disappointed to see that it never reached its true potential, this is exactly what he means as well..
Check this...
Our President (Asif Ali Zardari) assigns the chairman of PCB. the president belongs to the Pakistan People's Party...Ijaz Butt just happens to be the brother in law of a very strong person in PPP, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar...he is the mayor of the city of Gujarat.
Imagine if the blunders that Ijaz Butt has made were made by an Australian official, an English or SA or whatever....would have been sacked at once even if it required calling in the military..why? Principals are bigger then personalities...
When 9 out of 10 Pakistani cricket fans, which is probably 70 percent of the population hate Ijaz Butt with a passion then how is he still allowed to be in that position...? Moreover, the ministry of sports who tried its best to remove him failed as well..later it was discovered that the person leading that parliamentary committee had a fake university degree.....so what you have is essentially a goon enforcing law on another goon....
This is only perhaps 1% of the entire story....
Back to the point about Cricket...like many Pakistani posters have stated earlier...our cricket is a direct reflection of our government and politics...
I don't think you will find a more heart broken cricket fan then a Pakistani one...