Re: Another Sad news - Rana's father passed away.
first Younis Khans, than Amir Sohail and now Rana Naveed Ul Hasan...this is extreamly sad... May Allah have a reserve spot in Jannah for all of them....
Re: Another Sad news - Rana’s father passed away.
The Pakistan Cricket Board afterwards issued a statement of praise and commiseration for Naved, who chose to stay with the side following the death of his father.
Re: Another Sad news - Rana's father passed away.
I really feel for Rana at this time. Its really an impossible choice. How to express your grief when your country needs you so badly. Not sure what Rana's family composition is, but generally at this time a son wants to be close to his mother and siblings. Ina Lillah Wa Ina Illaihai Rajiun.
Re: Another Sad news - Rana's father passed away.
Inna lillahi wa ina ilahi rajeoon
it must be very difficult for rana n his family, may allah grant them strength to bear this loss :(
Re: Impressive 'Rana' /Father passed away
Whether the country needs him or not i think Rana should go back even if it is for one day. We should remember this is just a game, and outside the game is real life. When pitted against each other i believe real life is much more important. I won't mind playing a rana-less side against australia even if we lose. We were losing even with Shoaib Actor in the team anyway so we shouldnt hold Rana responsible.
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Faisal, Same sentiments 
Cheegz, I know it was a very difficult choice, but he made it. I hope he and team will be praying for his father there. He must have other brothers to take care of the family. He will be home by next week anyway.
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I read on cricinfo that Rana’s mother asked him to stay with the team.
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Yeah, and this is not just a game for him, its his career, his bread and butter depends on it. And with current oppertunity to shine as Pakistan's prime bowler its like a new immigrant gets a 100K job in San Jose. His mother must have asked him to stay with the team since this series will decide his career with Pakistan team for next two to three years and also she must have her other kids around. A week later he will join them anyway.
But still, if I were in his place, it would have been exteremly difficult decission for me. May Allah bless his father's soul.
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Sad Indeed,
Re: Impressive ‘Rana’ /Father passed away
rana ur my hero :k:
Re: Impressive 'Rana' /Father passed away
certain aussies ka stud rana should've went back.
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I really don't think RANA should be made to play .. it so unfair
the guy's father died there is no way he will be able to perform .. even if he can i think its more important for him to be with his family .. than our entertainment.
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I agree completely. He should have gone/go back.
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:Salute: My heart goes out to him. Seeing him performing today in the final the way he did is jut beyond words. Well done lad.
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Yes he does deserve the 
… MashaAllah, lad performed very well, even in last over when batsman was getting lucky runs he kept his head up and bowled him out! :k:
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Very sad. Rana has shown some great fighting spirit in recent games and growing in confidence as a player.
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An excerpt from Osman’s article on cricinfo. A good way to appreciate Rana and newly revived team’s efforts.
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The Verdict by Osman Samiuddin
February 4, 2005
It is not ironic, just fitting, that Pakistan have looked more cohesive and scrapped harder without Shoaib Akhtar than at any stage with him on this tour. It has been one of the central failings of Pakistan cricket over the years that the concept of the individual, the matchwinner, has taken precedence over that of the team.
It has been a singularly fortunate misfortune that they have possessed some of the most exquisitely talented individuals; men whose gifts and achievements have almost demanded lopsided attention. But their improved performance in the VB Series has been the upshot of a number of players - and not just one - performing at various times with bat, ball and in the field.
Certainly, their top order is still worrisome, and today Brett Lee bullied and battered it redundant. But the form and firmness of the middle and lower order has been such that the top order’s early dismissals have almost been a blessing. Only for a team like Pakistan could this ever be the case. Inzamam, with his fifth half-century of the series, was once more as untroubled as he was threatening. He has been like this all series, and now has five fifties.
In partnership with Shoaib Malik - who has been strangely subdued - he briefly sparked a fightback. The allround lower order, with the rekindled Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq, have also played key, cataclysmic roles and, for the first half of today, it seemed they had done so again.
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Special mention, though, for the embodiment of this resolve, the real heart and soul of this team’s revival - Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan. He is the antithesis of the starry Shoaib, and Pakistan has had few players with his courage, the commitment and spirit. He was the butt of much ridicule from local journalists when Pakistan played Sri Lanka in a Test last November when, on debut and on a flat pitch, he toiled without reward over after over, often being smacked around by Kumar Sangakkara.
The press box, perhaps unused to a bowler who wasn’t lightning-quick on the field and a personality off it, suggested he would be slaughtered in Australia, laughing him off as a balding, ageing, ineffective toiler. He took the crucial wicket of Sangakkara, though, opening up that match and he ended with three for the innings. They should have known better; in March, he received a fearful mauling at the hands of Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly in Karachi - yet came back to take both their wickets.
And he isn’t just indefatigable. Today he revealed yet again, with both new and old ball, a brain almost as sizable as his heart. And what’s more, he has reverse-swung the ball with more success than either Shoaib or Mohammad Sami have in the last year. That he played after the death of his father as little as two days ago adds not only to the poignancy of his performance but to the stature of the man. His batting today took Pakistan to within 18 runs of the target; if Pakistan can continue to feed off his spirit, they may get much closer on Sunday.
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Spirited Rana takes up the attack
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan has led the Pakistan attack with spirit and determination, reports Chloe Saltau.
The Pakistani bowler with the dashing looks, the Hollywood hair, the short fuse and the insatiable appetite for drama is in Lahore this weekend being interrogated by the board's chairman about his commitment, behaviour and fitness.
The Pakistani bowler with the unknown reputation, the subtle swing and the receding hairline is in Australia, coping with the death of his father 10,000 kilometres away and bowling his heart out for his country.
"He is a star, I am not a star," said Rana Naved-ul-Hasan of Shoaib Akhtar. "He is a good guy, a good man in the team, but I am different because I am not going outside to places like a disco. I don't like beer and the other drinks. I am not one of the big bowlers."
Without Pakistan's big bowlers, speed demons Akhtar and Mohammad Sami, the less fashionable and little-known Rana has admirably carried the load during the one-day series, which will finish in Sydney today if Inzamam-ul-Haq's men cannot level the finals series and force a third match to be played in Adelaide on Tuesday.
Former Pakistan captain Waqar Younis believes the 26-year-old has provided a spirit that was missing from the campaign before he came into the team for the SCG Test, and promptly surprised Justin Langer with an inswinger that sneaked between bat and pad and skittled the West Australian for 13.
At the end of that Test, coach Bob Woolmer publicly expressed the team's disappointment with Akhtar, who spent hours off the field complaining of back and hamstring injuries that eventually forced him home.
In his absence, Rana has been Pakistan's workhorse, not its show pony. "He's been a real fighter, especially since Shoaib went home. He's the one who has really led from the front in the bowling line-up," said Waqar. "He hasn't really played enough cricket yet, because he went away in the middle (of his career) for four or five years to England.
"The amazing thing is he's not a very tall guy but he's very shrewd. He's intelligent, with a beautiful action. He's got what Pakistan has been missing, that spirit and that hunger to take wickets, and in the last few games he has been the one to inspire the guys around him, like (Abdul) Razzaq."
The English connection is strong, for in four seasons Rana has become a legend of the Yorkshire leagues and in a solitary second XI game for Essex took seven wickets. Having finally earned regular national selection after injuries to Umar Gul, Shabbir Ahmed, Akhtar and Sami, Rana has quickly forged a reputation for fighting back from all kinds of hammerings.
He bowled nine no-balls against the West Indies in Adelaide and responded by producing a match-winning partnership with Razzaq to help upset Australia in Perth and taking 4-29 against the West Indies to help his country into the finals. Soon afterwards, his mother phoned with the news that his father, a keen cricketer and a big influence on his son's career, had died.
"My mum convinced me to stay," said Rana, whose emotional celebration after clinching Michael Clarke's wicket in the first final hinted at the grief he was carrying. "She said stay there, because everything is in God's hands. Play for Pakistan."
Woolmer this week described his squad as a close-knit group that had moved on from the injuries, the reported sacking of the team manager, the chucking reports of two bowlers, the since-discredited rape allegation and the string of defeats.
The big-hearted performances of Rana have certainly helped. "He's a really nice guy and a really tough cricketer. He wants to do well," said Woolmer. "His emergence in the last two games was created by the fact that he bowled nine no-balls in Adelaide. He and I had a stern chat and he went off and worked on the problem.
"I've got to know him. He was a youngster and very shy, but he's now expressing himself a lot more. His agility in the field, his enthusiasm, is a huge boon for us and something the rest of the team can take on board."
He has impressed the Australians. "He swings the new ball quite a bit away from the right-handers and he's got the ability to swing it both ways with the old ball," said captain Ricky Ponting. "That's where he's done a lot of damage."
Rana, Abdul Razzaq, Rao Ifthikar and Mohammad Khalil might not be as dangerous as a fit Akhtar, but they have certainly discredited his departing assertion that he alone was capable of unsettling the Australians. "It was just me up against seven batsmen who are all capable of scoring 200 each," Akhtar said before leaving Australia.
But as Woolmer said last week: "There's only one guy who did his own thing . . . and he's not here anymore."
Source: TheAge