Pakistan would benefit from Dravid’s axing: Inzi

He even went on to predict that Tendulkar, along with Shahid Afridi, would prove to be the key player in the forthcoming series.

Shocked by Dravid’s omission for the first two ODIs against Pakistan, Inzamam said, “He is a great player and his axing was baffling. I think Pakistan would benefit from it.

“He brings in lot of experience with him and that’s something you badly need to win close matches,” he told a press conference.

Inzamam, who will host special cricket programmes on Zee News during the series, said there could not be a fixed retirement age for cricketers and it should be determined by form and fitness.

“As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph — how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan’s case, he played till 39. I think fitness and performance levels are the right indicators to determine if it’s the time to leave the scene.”

Experience is something no team can afford to do away with and India’s relatively experienced side tilts the edge in the hosts’ favour in the forthcoming series against Pakistan, he said.