Misbah Says Iam Not "Devil"

LAHORE: Pakistan's ordinarily easygoing commander Misbah-ul-Haq on Tuesday dispatched a rankling tirade against his commentators as he affirmed his retirement from one-day internationals. 

After quietly continuing years of ill-use for each coming up short by the perpetually fluctuating Pakistan group, the 40-year-old said he was prepared for a rest.

He said he had no expectation of altering his opinion around one-day cricket yet would keep on playing Tests, in which organize he is Pakistan's best skipper.

Misbah captained Pakistan in their late World Cup crusade which finished in an engaging quarter-last annihilation to has Australia.

He said it was disillusioning to see previous stars on TV laying into the group, "utilizing damaging words that are route underneath the fundamental standard of morals".

"Pakistan's media houses ought to have a few tenets for individuals showing up on TV screens or if nothing else some fundamental preparing, on the grounds that it appears that any individual who can't discover a vocation in the nation turns into a specialist or expert on TV screens," he told journalists in Lahore.

Faultfinders named Misbah "tuk-tuk" after the moderate moving rickshaw as a result of his stubborn, patient batting style.

He was additionally routinely thrashed for probably negative strategies as skipper and differentiated unfavorably with the swashbuckling, enormous hitting all-rounder Shahid Afridi.

"I was being pinpointed for everything: when the batting fizzled, the media faulted me, when the bowling fizzled, the media faulted me and when the fielding fizzled, the media faulted me," he said.

At the point when Pakistan lost their opening World Cup diversions to India and the West Indies, likenesses of Misbah were blazed in the road in Lahore.

The apathetic Misbah drove Pakistan through some of its hardest years, assuming control over the captaincy after the spot-altering outrage of 2010 that saw three key players banned.

He has additionally never driven his side in a home arrangement. Global cricket in Pakistan was surrendered after the 2009 activist assault on the Sri Lankan group transport and the side play all their "home" recreations in unbiased venues.

"I can assume liability to a certain breaking point however I am not the fiend, I didn't assault the Sri Lankan group, I didn't end global cricket in Pakistan. Why accuse me for everything?" he said.