It is very much disheartening to lose a promising player like Irfan Pathan . The poor team management is totally responsible for this . Why Pathan has been chosen to make all sorts of experiments to establish him as an allrounder . The prime fault is to sent him as no. 3 batsman . To talk of any great allrounders in the world cricket like Sobers of WI , Botham of England , Imran Khan of Pakistan , Richie Benud of Australia , Heedley of NZ and our Kapil Dev , no one had ever been tried as no. 3 batsman of their team under any circumstances . I think the basic problem of Pathan that he does not know where to concentrate , as a bowler or as a batsman . He played a great innings in the practice match as a batsman(and mind it India won that match which was absolute necessary to turn around at tha juncture), then the management should consider that since he is an allrounder rather than sending him back . Another problem : since our coach was a great batsman he can convert a bowler to a batsman and not vice versa . To me he should have considered to play at least one Test match to prove himself as a bowler and put him at 6th down position as a batsman rather than sending him back .
