How many wildcards do you people want in out team for a given match? Remember, while wildcards can turn the course of a game on their EID day, more often than not they will actually cause the teams collapse. With a SN, a capable hitter as opener and aftab, saqib, ashrafool, bashar, mushfiq, mashrafee and rafiq to follow we need a sheet anchor as SN's partner.
Its true that Saqib showed his capacity yesterday and also in the few games he played. But is that, or mushfiq's performance sufficient to consider them for this role for WC matches against the big guns? What horrifies me is a pitch that gives some assistance to pacers early on (Most likely in WI), and our fragile top-order facing Vaas - Malinga and the likes .... we could quickly slump into something like 25/5 .... Having a solid defensive batter to open might stop this collapse.
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