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Agreed just because he was dropped is no reason to retire. (or was that aimed at me)Pathetic.
Nah mate, I've got nothing personal against you. Just saying it's quite pathetic from Razzaq, but it doesn't overly surprise me, he's never really come across as the sort of character who would want to put in the hard yards and force himself back into the reckoning. I suppose the lure of ICL has something to do with it...Agreed just because he was dropped is no reason to retire. (or was that aimed at me)
He has been linked to the ICL, but nothing confirmed as of yet.This has echoes of Inzamam's dummy-out-of-pram incident when he was ommitted from the ICC World XI squad two years back. Razzaq wants to show some mettle and stick it out. A player as good as he is will never be far out of the picture. Will he go the Azhar way and just earn an easy wage at county cricket?
TBH,he's atleast 30.In Pakistan,you can trust the ages mentioned on the academic certificates/degrees only.Even they are doubtful sometimes but 95% of the times,they are correct.No one there preserves their birth certificate & always rely on the ages mentioned in school at the time of admission are assumed to be correct.Its easy for some cricketers their to hide their really because they mostly uneducated which enables them to fool other people regarding their ages.The educated cricketers would almost always have correct DOBs mentioned in their cricinfo profiles.Imran Khan,Saeed Anwar,Wasim Akram,Wasim Bari,Salman Butt,Iftikhar Anjum etc are some of the examples of players with real ages.Shahid Afridi was born in a tribal where 99% parents don't know the DOBs of their children.This what enabled Afridi to fool people regarding his real ages(which is atleast 29 TBH).Some of the other players with doubtful ages are Imran Nazir & Hasan Raza.Retired at 27!
To play cricket for longer,after getting their chance a bit late e.g Rana Naved-ul-Hasan who is about 32 or 33 at the moment.I've never understood why cricketers would want to claim to be younger than they actually are?
TBH,it happens in other countries as well but on a much larger scale in Pakistan.ah, that makes some kind of lame sense on their part...
To get into U'17 and U.19 levels ... if you have played in those than more chance of you being noticed than if you haven't at all.I've never understood why cricketers would want to claim to be younger than they actually are?
I think if it is somebody who has been a part of the team for a while and has been dropped, the selectors should tell him why he has been dropped.Unless he's got a place to go to (ICL? CC?) this does seem like "spitting the dummy" - I suppose it proves someone takes the 20/20 WC seriously. Two thoughts: Even if he is 30 (which wouldn't surprise me. They said Waqar was at least two years older than his given DOB and they don't seem to be as accurate with their ages in Afro/Asian countries) it is still young to retire. And secondly do people think that selectors should tell every player why he is dropped?
Shouldn't it be fairly obvious? I really don't buy into people having a strop because they are not told why they are omitted..I think if it is somebody who has been a part of the team for a while and has been dropped, the selectors should tell him why he has been dropped.
Why ?Pathetic.