Saim Ayub and Virender Sehwag (Image credit: Agencies)
The young opener faced only 11 balls across the two innings, with England pacer Ollie Robinson dismissing him on both occasions. Speaking on Sky Sports after Pakistan finished Day 2 at 52-2 in their second innings, Hussain said Ayub should not have been picked for the Test.
He came from the CPL and hasn’t played first-class cricket in some time,” Hussain said during a post-day show on Sky Sports. Ayub’s return to the Pakistan Test team ended in a nightmare as he was dismissed for a duck in both innings of the third Test against England at Edgbaston. Ayub had arrived in England after playing T20 cricket in the CPL. Hussain questioned why Pakistan chose to bring him into a Test match without enough preparation for the conditions. “The truth is he shouldn’t be here.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain has slammed Pakistan’s decision to bring Saim Ayub into the Test team straight from the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), saying the young batter “shouldn’t be here”. Hussain said bringing a player directly from T20 cricket into a Test in England was a poor decision. Hussain said that if even a player of Sehwag’s experience could struggle, Pakistan should not have expected Ayub to immediately succeed. Batting at the top of the order in England is the toughest task, and you just feel you can fly someone in from some part of the world and go, Good luck,” he said.
Sehwag was flown into England without enough match practice and struggled at the same ground. “It is just a sort of disrespect and disregard for Test match cricket. Test match cricket, as any cricketer will tell you, is the toughest format.