Something about Nothing

Dear Shahid Afridi,
I used to be fan of yours. I had seen you in the field many times. I had seen you batting, bowling and fielding. I had seen you play Test matches, I had seen you play ODI. To cut short, you used to be a very good Circketer.

I had seen you win very few matches for your team, but mainly had seen you go back to the pavilion without making a good score. If you look at your own stats, you would notice that your average in ODI is much below the expectations that you had. We had seen you open the innings for Pakitsan, we had seen you play in the Middle order, when had seen you come right before the bottom of the Team, but I am very sorry to say that you have been performing very very poor recently in ODI.
When you come to bat at any time, I am almost sure that you will not score more than 25 odd (your ODI average score made me feel that), and this expectation is getting lower ODI by ODI, innings by innings.

I think you made a wrong decision to retire from Test Cricket. Your decision to retire from Test shows your understanding of Cricket. If you dont know (I can not understand why you dont know this) Test Cricket, is the true spirit of Cricket. If a player is not intrested in playing Test Cricket, then he should not be included in the ODI Team as well.
In the light of decision that you made not to play Test Cricket, i think you should again have a look at your decision, and retire from ODI as well.

I know this is hard for you to decide, but being a fan i am also much disappointed by thinking about it.

If you still want to play Test or ODI, i think you should perform, if one is not performing, then one should have courage to step back himself, and not make media stunts.

I hope you would understand my point,

Kind Regards,
Your Fan.