Re: A Case for Shoaib Akhter
Raindance bhai I am pretty sure you have an idea that most of cricket fans in pakistan give their view and take a stand on the basis of the current situation. Do you really expect that people will be remembering what shoaib has done in the past?
These are the people who can forget team’s or individual awesome performance in one series and will be ready to hang them after a below par performance in the next series. Some of these will also claim that its their birth right to treat the players like that. Some will say that we don’t give a damn if he is the only bowler in the current weaponary who has the potential to be a match winner and who can destroy an opposition within couple of overs. Some will say we care less if his record is the best among all the current bowlers we have in the bowling department. Some will say how dare he say things such as if he was the member of the aussie squad he would have been more succesfull. These people never said that he shouldn’t be in the squad when he gave that statement on 2003 because at that time he was the permanent member of the side and at that time Pakistan didn’t win the test match at Banglore. For people who always come up with the Banlgore example, let me remind you guys, India had the upper hand during most of the series and 5th day of final test provded a special and memorable performace on a deteriorating pitch where spinners picked 7 wickets. Otherwise the performance of the bowlers was average and sometime below average in that test series. An average batting lineup like WI in the last 3 innings were able to score alomost 400 runs everytime. If some one is still thinking that this bowling lineup has the potential to dismiss a sound batting lineup twice in a test match than he is lving in a fools paradise.
I am sick n tired of reading comments such as oh we are able to win without shoiab. Believe me it gives an impression that you are more concernced about pakistan win so that you don’t have to be embarrass in front of people to whom you said that pakistan don’t need shoiab akhtar anymore. In a way its shows you own mentality and your own self created hypothesis that you think that shoiab is bigger than the team.
