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Chappell had said Cricket Australia should reconsider the utility of a future Pakistan tour to the country.

"Pakistan have now lost 12 Test matches on the trot in Australia, and somebody's got to give them a kick up the bum," Chappell had said. "Cricket Australia have got to start saying 'listen if things don't improve we will stop with the invites'.

"You can't continue to [play poor] cricket. You can't bowl poorly, have conservative field placings and field sloppily and expect to play decent cricket in Australia."

Misbah, whose captaincy bore the brunt of further criticism, asked whether Australia's abysmal recent record in Asia warranted a similar rethink.

Australia have lost their last nine Tests in a row in India, the UAE and Sri Lanka; since 2008 they have lost 13 of their 18 Tests in Asia and won only one.

"The comments do not make any sense or suit a cricketer of his stature," Misbah wrote. "Australia themselves have been on the losing side in the recent away tours. They were clean swept by a Sri Lanka side that did not have Mahela Jayawardena or Kumar Sangakkara and some of their players didn't even have 10 Tests to their names.

"Then Australia lost the one-day international series 0-5 in South Africa. In the recent past they have been whitewashed by us in the UAE and in India. If we apply Chappell's comments to Australia, does that mean if they continue to get whitewashed on the subcontinent on a regular basis then they should also not travel there? And if Australia does not travel to Asia or the Asian teams do no travel to Australia then how are they going to improve?"

The 72-year-old Chappell would be remembered by many Guyanese for an incident which resulted in assault charges brought against him following an attack on a Guyana Cricket Board Official at Bourda in 1979 after he had dropped his pants while on the field at the same venue four years earlier. In response to the ‘dropping of his pants’ incident Chappell said, “It’s a joke”