Shoaib Malik is Pakistan's new captain

We don't know Shoaib Malik all that well, so we can't really comment on his suitability for the role.

He's 25, which is quite young for a captain. It seems to be working for South Africa though. Graeme Smith was made captain at 22. Smith wasn't particularly sure of his place in the South Africa side at the time, which was strange. At least Shoaib Malik's one of Pakistan's inked-in players.

Good luck to him. He'll probably need it. If someone made us captain of Pakistan it would trigger our defence mechanism of crying uncontrollably - at which point they'd ask Younis Khan for the sixth or seventh time and maybe this time he'd take the job.