Shoaib Malik

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Sir, Saqlain's action gave you Hafiz, Saqlain's action gave you Shoaib Malik.

Shoaib Malik.

Shoaib Malik.

To an extent, Ajmal also.

Ajmal.

Oh, the mentors.

Remember when we had a chat with Shoaib Malik?

Was he a mentor?

Yeah, he was a mentor, right? He was really-

I just think he lost a lot of aura points and just a lot of, uh, goodwill within this, uh, setup, players-wise.

Bro, Babar in '21 had so much aura that post that '21 T20 World Cup, he pushed out Imran Tahir and Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez.

And these are big players to push out.

And called M- and called, um, Mohammad Nawaz my match winner, and he played another seven years.

Um, and look, these things have happened quite a bit.

Stuart Broad spoke on commentary, didn't he, about how he got Shoaib Malik out for nobody-

Mm-hmm

... went on to get two hundred and forty.

Yes.

Shoaib Malik was captain.

Ajanta Mendis was a thing.

Was that?

Ajanta Mendis became a thing, yeah.

Yes.

And Shoaib Malik was captain for Pakistan, and uh, I think he came out for a press conference.

This is be- behind the, like where the lift lobby is at National Cricket's National Stadium and, and, and the press box.

I...

Yeah, I remember interviewing Sh- um, Shoaib Malik on, on the channel,uh, quite some years ago, and he was a very professional player for a Pakistani player.

I did say to him at the time,"How hard is it to be a professional in a system that's not, and how do you kind of learn to be a professional in that system?"And, and I think that for me is one of the reasons we see so many Australian sort of South African coaches take over is because they had very coaching-- uh, very professional coaching setups well before most other countries did.

And so you end up in a situation then where people from those countries really get, you know, very basics, just ti- ticking boxes.