Monday, August 18, 2008

Pakistan squad for Champions Trophy

Shoaib Malik (capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul Haq,Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Bazid Khan, Khalid Latif, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Iftikhar Anjum, Abdur Rauf, Saeed Ajmal .
There you go guys, there is our team chosen for the champions trophy. Lets dissect our this selectionand i will let you guys decide what you make of it. Why don’t we start with our own (pyare) Captain? Looking at his recent performances there is a great argument if he even belongs to the national team. His decisions are very debatable and his performances have not been up to the mark for a long time. Is he a opener, 2 down, 4 down or is its 5 down guy. Can anybody tell me his place or what rank does he play on. When he is doing captaincy he is seen lost, You see him doing press conference and he is scratching all his body and getting upset on reporters He should be rather be upset on his decisions on the ground and his batting. He himself is responsible for repeating same mistakes again and again like trying Kamran Akmal as an opener although he has failed countless times as a opener. I don’t want to even talk about how many catches will Kamran drop that will make me go on writing on this blog forever. Kamran can drop catches and let the guy score 100, that’s acceptable since Kamran scored a fifty also. Am I missing something here, is that the logic here (confused). Lets move on to other guys and my favorite Shahid Afridi. Can somebody please give me a reason for hisselection? Please I beg you what will he have to do to get him kicked out of the team. I guess he will have to quit cricket and only than our chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed would not consider him.People vouch for his bowling which also has been below par for the longest time. On top of it he missed all of the practice matches , plus his injury and he still gets selected. WOW. Only in pakistan if i may say you get to hear and see such mind boggling things. Moving on, Shoaib Akhtar is fit again (hip hip hurray), I think he will be able to bowl his first spell and then he will need treatment..hahaha. I think that’s how much fit he is. Umar Gul and SalmanButt coming from injuries god knows how much fit they are. Khalid Latif wont likely get a chance to play may be one match if he is lucky. Who knows how Bazid Khan will perform as he has to fill Mohammed Yousuf’s shoes. After saving Pakistan from an embarrassment from Hong Kong Fawad Alam is left out from the team As Shoaib Malik will say “Array warna Afridi bhai team mein kaisay atay agar fawad ko khilatay". Fawad has been wasted so many times in previous series, I don’t remember the captain giving him chance to come early and perform so he can show his true talent. Poor guy is being wasted away as so many talented guys in Pakistan.

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