Why Younis Khan quit captaincy

After he was handed a ban in March 2010, Younis Khan’s Pakistan career seemed finished. He ditched the captaincy and walked out on Pakistan cricket, much like Shahid Afridi, and at one stage the PCB couldn’t locate him. Speaking to Osman Samiuddin in The National , Younis explains why he quit the captaincy in the first place, talks of his second coming as a batsman under Misbah-ul-Haq and his ambitions to revive Karachi’s club cricket scene.

And so who knows who Younis Khan really is, other than those friends and family he escaped to? A little like those dandelion seeds (and also like his cricket mentor Rashid Latif), he's engaging and substantial but the minute you've got it, you know you have nothing at all in your hands but the wisp of an elusive presence.