Pakistan's former captain Zaheer Abbas has said Sourav Ganguly must justify his place in the team as a player if he wished to retain the captaincy.
"For how long he can remain captain of the team unless he performs? How he can drop other players on basis of poor performance? The sooner he strikes form, the better it will be," Abbas, known for his stylish batting, said.
Abbas felt Ganguly needed to regroup himself technically as well as psychologically to break the current run of poor scores.
Abbas, called the Asian Bradman for his prolific run scoring, did not agree that Ganguly's reflexes had slowed down due to age. "Ganguly is around 32 which was rather age of maturity for batsmen."
When asked to comment on Sachin Tendulkar's failure in the last one-day match at Kochi, he said, "Sachin has no problems like Ganguly. He has a sound technique and sound brain. He commands the bowling and will soon find his old scoring ways."
Disappointed with Pakistan's defeat in the first one-dayer at Kochi, Abbas said the side was "unpredictable" because it lacked professionalism and held coach Bob Woolmer responsible for it.
"He (Woolmer) has been with the team for more than a year but nothing has changed, neither the technique nor the fitness of the players has become better and there is still lack of prefessionalism in the team," he said.
{{/usCountry}}"He (Woolmer) has been with the team for more than a year but nothing has changed, neither the technique nor the fitness of the players has become better and there is still lack of prefessionalism in the team," he said.
{{/usCountry}}"This is where I feel Woolmer has failed, we still lack in that aspect. Boys still play like amateurs," Abbas added.
Abbas, who was in Jaipur to take part in a news channel programme, said it could be difficult to change players' technique at senior level but they could be taught professionalism.