The decline of Inzamam ul Haq?

Inzamam has played 14 first- class innings (completed matches) since July 2006 against England A, England, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited and the West Indies.

His scores are as follows:

0 , 20*, 69, 56*, 0, 13, 26, 37, 31, 9, 18*, 0, 31, and 10

Since July his average has been 29.1

There is no doubt he is in a slump of form. His average this calendar year is 33.67 though that includes a century which was made against India all the way back in January. The good thing is that in 2004 he went through a similar fate. His average then was 37.2 with 2 centuries and a 50.

This average shot up to 83.33 when he enjoyed the most phenomenal year of his career, smashing 4 hundreds and 6 fifties.

And now this....

He's not terribly old yet. He still has a lot of cricket left in him. He has been unlucky at times with the dismissals, but its the numbers that everyone looks at towards the end of the day. The only way he can find his form is to play himself into a groove. He has one more test innings left on a dicey Karachi pitch in this third and final test match. He's carried Pakistan single-handedly on his back many a time. Thus he certainly deserves the space and time required to get back to his regular mode.