Fair bit of time to decide on future – Misbah

Misbah-ul-Haq, 42, will not be hurried into making a decision on his future, even after another questionable bit of decision-making with the bat on the final day of the Test series against Australia in Sydney.

Misbah batted with greater assurance than at any point on tour, battling through to 38 in nearly three hours. It was a more familiar Misbah innings, long periods of resolute defending punctured by an occasional aggressive shot.

In the process, he kept Pakistan’s prospects of escaping with a draw alive but in trying to hit Steve O’Keefe over a legside boundary, he sliced a leading edge to Nathan Lyon at cover. It was the latest in a series of poor shots that have led to Misbah’s dismissal at a time when his team needed him to play a long innings. In this Test alone, he has been caught slogging off a spinner twice.

In the aftermath of Pakistan’s last-day collapse and subsequent defeat in the second Test, that error in decision-making had led him to the verge of retirement; so despondent was he at the time, he said he …

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