By Omar Khalid, IANS,
Karachi : Pakistan skipper Younis Khan believes that captaincy is much of a burden for cricketers in the sub-continent.
In an interview with Urdu daily Jang, Younis said that a captain makes more enemies than friends in the sub-continent.
“I can tell you by experience that captaincy is not a bed of roses. It’s a very thorny path,” he stressed.
Younis, who led Pakistan to a historic World Twenty20 triumph, said that lobbies start working as soon as a player takes over as the Pakistan captain.
“When I was the vice-captain under Inzamam-ul-Haq, people used to come to me and tell me to just take over the captaincy because he (Inzamam) was finished. I think that’s the way it is in our cricket,” he said.
Younis said that such intrigues seem to be the common problem with cricket in the sub-continent.
“I don’t know why he (Virender Sehwag) is not willing to see himself in the role of Indian captain,” said Younis.
“But I think that it is factors like all these intrigues and stuff in our part of the world that cricketers like him are not interested in captaincy,” he concluded.