Twenty20 will 'finish' Pakistan cricket - Mohammad Yousuf

I think if we have 12 good players, 8 of them can be used in all formats. Cricket is cricket. If you do not agree see Sehwag, jayasuriya or Gayle. They make a lot of runs in test cricket. That is why I would prefer Imran nazir on the current two and try to improve his skills. Cricket is about making more runs than your opposition.

I find it hilarious that people are saying we're a joke and waste our talent. We're World T20 champions, which was supposedly the holy grail for Indians until they realised their Indian team was only half decent at T20 cricket, and now it's all about Test Matches. The same thing is happening in ODI cricket. Funny how people always twist what they deem is "success" to closely match where there team is doing best in at that moment. Aus are just as bad, deeming the Champions Trophy a joke but now they're champions, suddenly it's a big tournament and a big victory that matters. 2009 for Pakistani Cricket by and large wasn't that much worse than most other teams, we just had bigger highs and lows than the others.

I dont see any reason for such lame excuses. In fact, Pakistan cricket itself has become an excuse.....and an embarassment. A pitiable example of wasting away abundant talent.

What pakistan cricket? Wasnt it finished already, if there was any? :)

Yousaf is missing a fact that, it is not abundance of t20 cricket but lack of test cricket causing Pakistani batsmen not to stay on wicket. Good players are performing well in both forms of the game. Lest compare Pakistan test team with t20 winning team. Yousaf, Farhat, Faisal, Salman, Rauf , Kaneria are not 20 players but also have not done good in test matches (with the exception of Kaneria). M. Aamer, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal are part of t20 winning team and are also doing good in test. So, this is not the case that t20 cricket is causing the problem. It is the quality of players and lack of cricket causing the problem. Although we have many different players in t20 format e.g. Imran Nazir, Navid ul Hasan, Abdur Razzaq, Shahid Afridi e.t.c The main thing is that, every format has its own uniqueness and importance. We should have players for every format.

The guy who sold his country out for the T20 ICL riches now looks back and says T20 is ruining Pk cricket, what a load of cobblers!! If the Pk players really were in T20 mode we would have seen international standard fielding and not pub team standard fielding. We would have seen a way higher scoring rate, in the first innings they scored at bwt 2 an over, thats not test standard never mind T20!! They should have infact taken more a T20 mindset and ATTACK at the Australians. It was quite upsetting seeing the lack of aggression and flare shown by the Pk players, they really dont understand that they are far far far more talented than the hosts! To me its all in the head, they have to want to smash the Aussies, not to just put up a tidy performance against them. The Pakistani players need to realise this is a very average Australian team, they played them with fear just like they used to in the McGrath and Warne days. You do that with any team, ur asking to lose!

In my opinion, Yousuf istelling his team mates that its a shame that you guys are not performing as test batsmen. He does not want it to say directly, it is similar message that Younis gave to Pak team in T20 last year before the team turned it on. May be Yusuf is hoping that these demoralising comments could spur the team on to prove themselves in tests as well. On the point that t20 should be curtailed, I dont think it will happen because that is where the cash is whether Yusuf likes it or not. Today most people have forgotten the ethics or the norms in trying to make money for twenty life spans. Look at bollywood actors, they are just dropping their pants if shown cash, for example, you could make them dance in your wedding or kid's birthday if you have the money to pay them. Similarly who cares if Test criket is the real cricket, show me the money is the mantra of today's cricketers. Cricketers are careers are even shorter than actors, so they want to rack in as much as possibl

I enjoy pakistan cricket beacuse of the variety it showcases. Youth has played an imp. role their cricket. Exciting players like, Imran,Qadir,Azim Hafiz,Moin Khan,Inzmam,M.Amir etc have ensured that they always have someting fesh to offer. I agree with Yousuf, but may be PCB is inclined for No.1 position in 20-20. Really, if they want to promote Test cricket, they need to play more of longer version in their domestic set up, but with good remuneration otherwise players will go for 20-20. Like in India, Players now earn good money playing longer version, even if not selected for Indian colors they can make a living. You Board needs to divert money earned from 20-20 to longer version. Once this happen you will get better players. Morever we need to dismantle this belief that a good player will do well in all the formats. One needs specialisation in every format, hence separate teams i.e., not necassarily 100%. In S.Africa they even have separate captains for each version.

Mohd. Yousuf is absolutely correct, the most recent example is that, Shahid Afridi is currently playing T20 county cricket in Australia these days (n scoring well) on the other hand Our country lost the 1st Test at MCG, this shows that how much he gives importance to DOLLARS and how much importance he gives to PAKISTAN. This is all b'coz of some dollars....!!! Shame on u Mr. Shahid Afridi. We must avoid playing T20 format as much as possible, otherwise we will lose Class of Cricket. TRUE CRICKET IS five glorious day format, i.e. TEST CRICKET.

i do agree with Yousuf. its not only about the player, i have also concern about spectator. u can find how T20 affected Test cricket by the number of spectator. from the second day of Boxing Day test, MCG gallery was almost empty. on the other hand T20 big bash was houseful!