Questions over Yousuf's captaincy
After the heroics of the opening two days, the Pakistani hare looked around and suddenly found the Australian tortoise right behind him, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
After the heroics of the opening two days, the Pakistani hare looked around and suddenly found the Australian tortoise right behind him, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian.
Mystifyingly, Pakistan were just as defensive, with Yousuf having as many as eight men on the fence at times. Hussey declined the easy singles on offer, instead finding the ropes intermittently as the lead slowly mounted. If he was bemused by Yousuf's we-shall-bore-you-out tactics, he didn't show it, easing past a hundred and well beyond. On air, the venerable Richie Benaud called Yousuf's captaincy "inexplicable". The millions who had woken up before dawn in Pakistan would surely have agreed.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo