in this forum there was a thread of playing aftab at 3. he is inform and after openers get to a relatively good start, the natural choice is ofcourse him.
but our clever coach/captan think otherwise and played ash at 3, he was out of form and obviously not confident. playing him against the new ball just sacrificed his wicket. instead ash could have played in 6 with older ball, get himself set and get a better score. seems like this forum has more intelligence than our coach/captain