Waqar--- Does he warrant a place in Pak team anymore? NO. In test matches he's hardly done anything worthwhile, while in onedayers he's hell expensive.Before the Indo-Pak match Pybus and senior players had requested Waqar to miss the match so that a better bowler in Sami can be played!! Must have been an embaressment for Waqar, still the guy wants to stick around!!
Well yohanna, I dont know if we were watching the same cricket but you see ? the problem is that yes Waqar has aged a lot, but now is the time that he has been using all his experience, he is better bowler, and I am sure his economy has not been as bad as you say, remember who dismissed sehwag and Ganguly on succesive balls ? Waqar hasn't performed badly.
Saeed... Though he did fairly well in WC, yet we all know that Saeed is a shadow of a player he once was.Besides how long do you think he can stick around? atmost 6 months.I would say better try to establish the opening pair of Umer and Elahi in onedayers .
Well, I am not the only person who thinks that Anwar is a player up there with the best. He can perform and once the confidence is back I dont see him retiring for a good time. Further, if he can team up with Taufiq that sounds good.
Shoaib--- I'm glad that the brat has been finally thrown out,
though its unfortunate that the selectors have done that with the feeble excuse of "lack of fitness" rather than banning him on disciplinary grounds.Pybus,the manager Khan & the captain in Waqar have all complained about Akhter's behaviour during the WC.Its unfortunate that a fine bowler in Mohd Akram is serving a "One year Ban" for deserting the Pakistan team in a test match, while Akhter who has deserted the team on numerous occasions wasn't disciplined even once, instead he was pampered all along!
Why ban him ? why get on his back all the time sure he's benn expensive and all but he has won the few games that Pakistan have played last year. He is a team man who visibly gives it all, not to bowl 160 kph, but to get the team victory. But you are right, Shoaib had to be reprimanded for his attitude, Wasim and Waqar were there for that but never did it, not sure why.
Inzi---Somethimes its better to give struggling player a break to sort out the mess.A Sohail has clearly said that Inzi has three years of cricket in him, Inzi can always make a come back .Its better to have a fat and inform Inzi rather than one who's close to cracking ( I'm sure Younis Khan would agree with me on this).
Agreed, he's looked out of sorts, give him some breathing space.
Akram---I don't agree with his omission .The bowling attack is very inexperianced with Razzak being the most senior bowler.I think the newly selected bowlers needs someone to guide them and Akram would have been the best man to guide them.But i guess since both Rashid and Miandad had bad experiance with Akram, his omission was on the card.
Well, as things stand, this ommission should be
Saqlain--- Sohail said that Saqlain had been offcolor lately primarily due to the skipper' lack of confidence in Saqlain.If thats the case then Rashid should have given full backing to Saqlain to bring the best out of him.
He's bound to make a come back, but a point that Sohail made was that after the first 25 overs, the attack sagged a lot, partly due to the misgivings of Afridi and Razzak, Danish Kaneria has been sent to Sharjah so that he cna develop into a bowler who will provide you with wickets in the mid stages, thats that we have been letting teams of the hook, Australia and England games come to mind.
I think only Waseem and Saqlain (of all the experianced players) should have been in the squad, without them the bowling is inexperianced and might go for 300+ runs on Sharjah.As for this squad being a "Pakistan A "team, well the team with seniors in it were only able to beat Holland and Namibia in WC, i don't see how this team can do worse!!
Well, Sharjah has officially been labelled as a testing ground for this new crop, so I wont mind Pakistan losing, if it leads to something better.
and lol, you have a point !
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