Inzimam to retire from Int'l cricket after Lahore test?

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Geo is reporting that Inzimam has decided to retire from International cricket after playing in Lahore test. He has held dialogues with PCB and they have agreed to give him one test to retire on a high note.

If that is true, then I am glad that finally a legend will retire the right way ( and by that I mean official retirement) rather than being forced out.

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Thats a great news. He derserves this. I am glad PCB did it.

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I sure hope that he is in form and can score some good runs..

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:hmmm: What if he makes the score of 100+ in both innings :5:

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PCB kee vaat lag jeiy gee :hehe:

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What if he gets out on 0?

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As much as I’d like to see it happen, it won’t happen for the following reasons:

  1. Inzimam has been in poor form lately. He didn’t score much for Yorkshire.
  2. It’s still not clear whether Inzimam will play the Lahore Test. There’s no official announcement.
  3. Lahore Tests are usually one-inning Tests. Very rarely does a match go to two innings. Hence no chance of two 100+ scores by Inzi.
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Inzi to play one last test match??

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/313757.html

so he’s coming back to give himself a chance to break miandad’s record?

well, regardless, it’ll be good to c him play again - even if it is just for 1 more match…and with yusuf most likely to play the next match as well, the pak middle order would be strengthened even more :slight_smile:

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^^ i hope they have enuff match practice

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Is he coming back for 1 Test, only????

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A very sensible move by PCB if true. And I don't think that Inzi should retire if he's in form seeing as we don't have any suitable replacement for him. Yes I know he's 37 but his form and not his age should decide if he should go now. Gooch retired at 41, Viv Richards retired at 39, Miandad at 39, Border, Steve Waugh and Lara at 38. This test has shown that we really only have one quality test batsman (Younis) apart from Inzi and Yousuf. Malik batted well in the first innings but I am not sure if he has the technique and temperament to score runs consistently in tests.

Whats more this test also proved in many ways that Asif and Gul are very good support bowlers rather than out and out strike bowlers in the league of Fazal Mahmood (yes he was great. ask Benaud and Imran), Imran Khan, the two W's and actor. Asif atleast has won two tests with his bowling (the Karachi test against India and a test in SLA last year) but apart from one good spell against India in a test in 2004, I can't remember Gul troubling many batsmen in tests. The absence of someone like actor was clearly obvious

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^^well wid younis n yousaf in middle order ...
i dont think we shud miss inzi tht much ...
n if he wont retire now ... how will we groom young players ??

n yeah ....... WE MISS SHOAIB AKHTER ......

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You groom younger player WITH senior players not AFTER senior players

Having said that, I also believe its the right time for Inzi to go gracefully. Not because he can not play for another 12 months or so but becasue he is not in good books of PCB now and looking at the track record of PCB, they are not very good at giving graceful farewell to any player who has served Pakistan for this long. Now that Saeed Anwar was able to pull this stunt/deal (as per media), Inzi should avail it!

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Inzi deserves a farewall match and if for nothing but to shut up Miandad & take over his place as the highest test run scorer for Pakistan. It would be sad to see the end of that era, knowing no one is there to step into his big shoes...but I think its the right approach from PCB as Inzi is not in their future plans yet they want to give him a farewell match to honor his legacy in Pakistani cricket history.

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A great step by PCB!
This is a great gesture and Inzi was wise enought to take this route too. Now only if the Test ends the way he wants it to end inshallah. Here are his own words:

I’m grateful PCB showed me respect
Oct 5, 2007 | Inzamam-ul-Haq

It is a very sad day for me as I announce that I am leaving cricket after 16 years. It is very sad because I have only known cricket but it is the right decision.

I am pleased to have been given the opportunity by the board chairman to be able to play one final Test and then retire. It was my idea to go out this way.
I spoke to the board and selectors and the first Test was originally offered to me but I wasn’t mentally ready to come back to Test cricket then. It was my idea to play in Lahore and then say ‘Thank you very much’.

It was my wish to make 10,000 Test runs but the atmosphere here is now different, because the young boys are there and are doing well, especially in South Africa at the Twenty20 World Cup, where they put in a good effort. This is why I have made the decision; it is for the best for the future of Pakistan cricket.

I need a century against South Africa to have a set of Test hundreds against every country I have played against so it would be a good thing to make a century and beat Javed Miandad’s record but more importantly it would be good for Pakistan to win the game and draw the series.

I didn’t see all of the Karachi Test but I did watch a few sessions. There were quite a few positives to take from the game like Abdur Rehman’s eight wickets and Younis Khan’s super hundred in the second innings.

It’s definitely a sad time now because for the last 15 or 16 years I have been playing cricket but one day you decide that you need to leave cricket and that day has come. This solution is the best idea.

I am really grateful to the board for their gesture as nobody else has been able to leave the game like this. Not Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saeed Anwar or Javed Miandad, it has not been the tradition. No previous board chairman has shown the kind of respect that Nasim Ashraf is showing to me by allowing me to leave the game in this way.

It’s a good thing and I hope other (long-serving) players in the future can be treated in the same way. Insh allah I can make a century and Pakistan win.

http://inzamam.bigstarcricket.com/bs/players/inzamam/article_2873.shtml

I feel sad after reading this :frowning:

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i think he deserved a final match for a good bye. that way he can atleast say good bye from test cricket in a normal manner, unlike the way he had to from one dayers. he was a great batsman and i am glad that the PCB would let him play one last time.

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Its not easy to shut up Miandad, because of following reasons

  1. Statistically the most consistant test batsman after Bradman. His test average never went below 50.

  2. In the 100th Test match ever to be played, between Pakistan and New Zealand in 1982-83, he scored centuries in both innings.

  3. He is the youngest cricketer to make a triple hundred in first class cricket.

  4. He scored nine back to back 50s in 1987-88 an ODI world record.

  5. He was never dismissed for a duck at home, in both forms of cricket.

  6. The only cricketer to appear in six World Cup competitions; the first six.

  7. Wisden cricketer of the year in 1982.

8 . The first cricketer ever to score 1000 runs in World Cup competitions. He achieved this feat in the 1992 World Cup final against England.

DID YOU KNOW IT???

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For this credit should go to home umpires.
Neverthless He was greate cricketer.

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I wonder if he was “bowled” and umpires over-ruled (no-balled) it :hmmm:

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You really think that it is the test record that makes Miandad great?

First we have to give credit to PCB for having this farewell match. Just like Inzamam's career, I think he will focus on helping us win than anything else. Hopefully, we can get back into the series.