More to Imran’s rise than Test skills

Incredibly, Haupt waffles on about “statistics” to bolster his anaemic argument, thus showing a lack of understanding of how these things can be, and are, sicked up by certain characters. 
Let’s take a closer look. Haupt’s unwise reference to statistics was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to Britain’s then-prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli: “There are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies and statistics.”
That emphatically categorises Haupt’s chauvinistic, gossamer-thin method of using figures to fit a one-dimensional attempt at gravitas. 
What Haupt should concentrate on is the truly ghastly state of nuclear-armed Pakistan’s internal structure instead of giddy, one-trophy triumphalism. It should be evident that, in the face of being an alleged failed state, there are rather more serious issues to address than Imran Khan being a cricketer who was admittedly well above average, but not truly great in my opinion. 
These include lifting the Pakistani people out of poverty (they deserve better; addressing the dire security situation), and talking constructively with nuclear-armed India about, for example, resolving the running sore that is Kashmir. This rather puts Haupt’s empty braggadocio into context.
Dr Frank