2nd Test - Pakistan vs India - Kolkata (Merged)

[Sohaib]

Re: 2nd Test - Pakistan vs India - Kolkata

@Some1

Also , from a personal point of view, I still don’t see Akmal as a great batting potential. I usually know a batsman with a future when I see one and I am still not impressed with Akmal’s technique…He is a plucky/pugnacious batsmen like many wicket-keepers tend to be (but sorry I don’t see him as a reliable batsman).

It may be of interest to know(though not necessarily in context) that one of our very own wicket-keeper Deep Dasgupta scored a century at Mohali against NZ…in NZ’s last tour to India.

Akmal doesnt have a solid technique admittedly but that doesnt mean he cannot bat. Look at wicket keeper batsman like Moin who had the weirdest technique possible but he bailed us out on countless occassion. I am NOT comparing Akmal with Moin because its still early days but my point is that presence of a solid technique does not guarantee success and vice versa. One also needs grit, determination, patience and other ingredients as well and Akmal has most of them and thus he was successful in bailing Pakistan out that day.

Oh I remember DasGutpa’s knock and you have rightly said yourself that circumstances were entirely different then.