Shaheen's talent isn’t always enough

The left-arm pacer’s exclusion from the second Test against Bangaldesh is partly his doing but Pakistan also erred by not managing him well

Kolkata: Little time was spent hailing Shaheen Shah Afridi as the boy with the golden arm. And for good reason too. The swing was bewitching, the release was near-perfect and the control was unerring. And if the Afridi surname wasn’t eponymous enough, Shaheen was also a left-hander, slipping quietly into the hastily created narrative that Pakistan had found someone to extend the legacy of Wasim Akram and Mohammad Amir.

Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi. (AFP)

Cut to the 2021 T20 World Cup where he had removed