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Broad could miss rest of World Cup
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FINALLY- IT COMES OUT!! Umar or anyone else…if IMRAN would have been captain he would have removed Kamran during the game…and then tongue lashed him in the dressing room later…Afsos todays mgmt is weak minded..
phew…
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Umar may replace Kamran as wicketkeeper
Osman Samiuddin in Pallekele
March 9, 2011
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Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi thinks it may be time to replace Kamran Akmal behind the stumps © AFP
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Players/Officials: Kamran Akmal | Shahid Afridi | Umar Akmal
Matches: New Zealand v Pakistan at Pallekele
Series/Tournaments: ICC Cricket World Cup
Teams: Pakistan
Pakistan will consider using Umar Akmal as a wicketkeeper in their remaining group games in the World Cup in a bid to offset the disastrous glovework of his elder brother Kamran. Akmal senior missed three chances in Tuesday’s big loss to New Zealand, including the centurion Ross Taylor twice in three balls when he was on 0 and 4.
Those chances come on the back of two missed stumpings in the win against Sri Lanka and over four years of constant, error-strewn performances. “It [keeping with Umar] is very much an option and we might try it in the next game,” captain Shahid Afridi told Geo News.
As a sign of Pakistan’s concern over Kamran’s form with gloves and bat - he has only three dismissals so far and averages less than 30 as a batsman - Afridi did not rule out the possibility not playing him as a specialist batsman and dropping Kamran altogether. “We have five days now before our next game, so whatever is better for the team we will try it,” he said.
Kamran is the only specialist wicketkeeper in the squad but Umar kept for the side in one ODI against South Africa last November, after Zulqarnain Haider fled to London. He was also behind the wickets for three T20s in New Zealand soon after.
“If you see him train, he puts in a lot of hard work. I don’t know why but luck has deserted him,” Afridi said. “He is also upset about his performance [against New Zealand] and he realizes it too.” Asked by the channel how “luck” seems to have deserted him so often in the last four years, Afridi smiled and said, “I can’t give an exact answer to that. My job is to back him, to support him and hopefully he will do his best.”
If he is dropped, it will not be the first time in the last four years it has happened to Kamran. After a promising couple of years as the first-choice replacement for Moin Khan and Rashid Latif, Akmal’s performances began to dip on the 2006 trip to England, where he persisted behind the stumps despite a finger injury.
But Pakistan stuck with him until June 2008, when Sarfraz Ahmed kept for the side in the Asia Cup. Kamran returned soon after, however, with no discernible improvement in performance. Only in January 2010 was he next axed and it took the monumental failure of the Sydney Test, where he missed five chances in all, for Sarfraz to be flown out for the final Test in Hobart.
In Pakistan’s next Test against Australia at Lord’s last summer, Kamran was back again, however. After three more poor Tests, Zulqarnain Haider came in to replace him, but a contentious finger injury ruled him out after his debut. Yet again, Kamran returned to keep wickets in the last two Tests of the summer.
He was subsequently caught up in the fall-out of the spot-fixing scandal and the PCB refused to clear his selection for the series against South Africa in the UAE and the third Akmal brother, Adnan, took his place in the two Tests. But the board’s integrity committee finally cleared him in December, allowing for his selection in the ODI series against New Zealand and the World Cup squad.
His long-term future is again under question now. After the game, Waqar Younis, the coach, said “After the World Cup maybe we can think about it, but we are in the middle of the tournament and I don’t think we can make such a change right now.”
Pakistan took a day off from training on Wednesday but the team management said it would sit down and go through the loss and plan for the next game, against Zimbabwe on March 14.
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of ESPNcricinfo
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Hope Umar really replaces him
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Aus has yet to loose a game. They will loose against Pakistan :k:
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bismillah parh liya karo achee batain bolnay say pehlay…
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Hope Umar really replaces him
me too...
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India and Aus are the only unbeaten teams so far...
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says it all…how can Akmal stay in the side after this. The other players would have no reliance on him any more…
Good in one way…since that will promote the quicks to bowl yorkers and bowl out batsmen…
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India and Aus are the only unbeaten teams so far...
will change soon Inshallah.....
no one is invincible..
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unbeaten could not beat England 
what a verdict lol!
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Don’t panic, Open with Kamran Akmal and Asad Shafiq - Imran Khan
Imran’s batting order:
- Kamran Akmal
- Asad Shafiq
- Younis Khan
- Misbah-ul-Haq
- Umar Akmal
- Abdul Razzaq
- Shahid Afridi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former captain Imran Khan has advised the team management to avoid panicking after the big defeat to New Zealand in a World Cup group match in Pallekele, Sri Lanka. **“If they panic and get nervous the World Cup campaign will go to pieces that is what I fear. **I also think our people must keep faith with the team the tournament is still not over for them,” he said on a TV programme. The cricketer-turned-politician said Pakistan teams had a history of self-destructing after big defeats. “That is what I fear, the body language of the players was not good on Tuesday. It is time for the management to now rethink their strategy and combinations which have not been right so far in the competition,” he said. The former captain, since the start of the tournament, has criticised the insistence on shoring up the batting down to number eight and playing with just three specialist bowlers. Imran had warned that the moment Pakistan came up against a strong opposition or had a bad day their bowling would be badly exposed.
“What I had feared happened against New Zealand but it is still not too late. The pressure is on them now but the management is experienced and they must now learn from the defeat and define new combinations and roles for the players,” Imran said. Pakistan were defeated by 110 runs in a Group A match on Tuesday after leading the pool with Ross Taylor tearing the bowling into shreds with a monumental 131 not out after being dropped twice by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal.
Imran also advised the management and people to keep faith with Kamran. “We have no other choice right now in the World Cup. It would be a dangerous move to try out part time keepers in such a big event. I say encourage Kamran tell him to work hard on his weaknesses and hope he can improve his keeping. But playing him in the past despite his poor track record has been a flawed policy of the selectors,” Imran added. He said the management must now also try out a new opening combination.
“I would say open with Kamran and this new guy Asad Shafiq, get in Younus Khan and Misbahul Haq at the number three and four positions followed by Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi. It is no use playing Razzaq at number eight. He is being wasted,” he said.
Imran also advised captain Afridi and his players to learn from the defeat and move on. “No need to sulk on it because champion teams are those who learn from their mistakes. The quarterfinals are still far off and we have time to settle upon a winning combination. We have never been a good fielding side so no use crying over it,” he said.
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WTH IK still wants Kamran in the team 
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I really feel Sorry for Shoaib here 
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We don't have many options either. Umar Akmal should keep wickets. Kamran can be in the team purely as a batsman. Kamran is still a better batsman than Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad (who has been most disappointing, has been unable to handle the pressure of world cup).
Experimenting with Asad Shafiq as opener is also risky. I would open with Kamran and Hafeez or Shehzad (drop one of them). Asad looks more a test batsman to me
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Kamran's fault is in keeping...he can be a good opening option on these tracks...since Hafeez is on another planet these days and Shehzad ...well I don't know what is going on with him...
As far as Asad opening....the only reason I think Imran is suggesting that is becuase Asad is a more watchful striker..so kind of balance Kamran's big hitting with Asad's watchfulness and ability to grind it out....
I doubt Wiki/Afridi will pay too much attention to what Imran say...but I hope and pray that they do...
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WTHECK is up with Junaid Khan sitting out all these matches....
no talk anywhere??? GEO Super / ARY ......no questions in team meetings either...???
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Bring in Abdul Razzaq as one-down , the position he played in entire 1999 worldcup. Let Hafeez come at #8 and have Asad Shafiq and Kamran Akmal bat as openers. The openers must be instructed to stay there till first 10 overs ATLEAST.
So that'll be:
Asad shafiq
Kamran Akmal
Abdul Razzaq
Younis Khan
Misbah
Umar Akmal
Afridi
Hafeez
Umar Gul
Abdul Rehman
Shoaib
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Pakistan are more like caged pandas than cornered tigers at the World Cup
Defeat to New Zealand has ended comparisons with 1992, and started the cynics’ tongues wagging once again
The Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal was ridiculed following his team’s defeat to New Zealand. Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images THE SHADOW OF SPOT-FIXING
The more punctilious among you may have noticed that this week’s Spin is running late by the small matter of, oh, two days or so. Apologies. Last Sunday slipping away from the England team to head off to Sri Lanka seemed such a simple idea. Four flights, three airports, a round-trip road run from Colombo to Kandy and 2,041 miles later it seems safe to say I was being a little naïve. Never mind. I am now safely ensconced in Nagpur, a city getting into the swing of things ahead of the big match between India and South Africa this Saturday, and have a little time to look back on the last 48 hours.
In Sri Lanka I was hoping to write a paean to Pakistan. Having seen Shahid Afridi bowl them to victory in their first three matches it seemed to me that there may just have been a suggestion of a similarity between this team and the side that won the World Cup in 1992, in that they had drawn strength from the adversity they found themselves in. With Imran Khan’s side it was just that they endured a terrible start to the tournament. Afridi’s team, it hardly need to be said, have been through far worse things in the last six months. And yet here they were winning all their matches, with all the old enmities apparently put to one side.
Younus Khan, whose captaincy was so divisive that it led eight players to take an oath of allegiance not to play under him, is back from exile. As is Misbah-ul-Haq, who threatened to quit international cricket last July because he was so fed up with being ignored by the selectors. And then there was Shoaib Akhtar, still one of the most entertaining men in the game, even if he is a little thicker around and the middle and thinner on top than he once was. In my head I saw a line about their being a little of the spirit of Imran’s cornered tigers about the team, but then I’m a bit of a sucker for lore like that. Turned out that caged pandas would have been closer to it.
Or in Kamran Akmal’s case, a performing seal, clapping his hands at the ball as though he expected Afridi to toss him a fish if he happened to cling on to it. Cruel as it may be to say, his incompetence behind the stumps is staggering. In four games in this World Cup so far he has dropped two catches, refused to try for a third and squandered two stumpings.** The wicketkeeper is the heart of any cricket team in the field, and Pakistan need a transplant.** When Ross Taylor edged his third ball between 'keeper and slip, Kamran looked imploringly at the man stood alongside him, Younus, who simply turned his back and stared in the other direction. So much for team spirit.
When Shoaib bunged four overthrows over Akmal’s head after fielding a forward defensive off his own bowling, he stood with one hand on his cocked hip and looking around the field. No one came near him. The cricket pitch has rarely seemed such a lonely place.
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