Inzy retiring

Abysmal · September 30, 2007, 7:20am

KARACHI — Former Pakistan national team captain, Inzamamul Haq has decided to retire from all forms of international cricket after discussing the issue with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), friends and relatives, Khaleej Times learnt.

An official announcement is expected in a couple of days.

The 37-year old Inzamam, had quit from ODIs and country’s captaincy after Pakistan’s shameful early exit from the World Cup 2007 in the West Indies, was persuaded by one of his former colleague and PCB to retire gracefully and he accepted their advice.

Another reason that perhaps hastened Inzamam to take the decision was that Pakistani selectors had reservations about his fitness and form and were willing to give Misbahul Haq a chance to prove at Test level after he batted so well in the Twenty/20 World Cup.

In return of his decision to retire, PCB will pay around Rs10 million and organise a grand gala to honour Inzamam’s outstanding services to Pakistan cricket.

The burly batsman, one of the best ever to play for Pakistan, however, wanted to continue his Test career with aims to become country’s first to achieve the landmark of reaching 10,000 Test runs.

To achieve the milestones Inzamam declared himself available for Tests and to prove his fitness and form signed a temporary contract to play for English County, Yorkshire, as cover for team-mate Younis Khan, who opted to represent Pakistan in the inaugural Twenty/20 World Cup in South Africa.

Unfortunately Inzamam’s performance was below par in half a dozen matches he represented Yorkshire.

Inzamam also desired to become Pakistan’s top Test run getter and surpass legendary Javed Miandad’s record. Inzamam in 119 Tests had scored 8813 runs as against Miandad’s 8832 runs and needed just 20 runs to attain that landmark. Unfortunately with his decision to quit he will not be able to achieve the two milestones.

Surprising since he wanted to achieve 10,000 runs before he retired. ICL may have played a role

pidbull · September 30, 2007, 7:27am

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and they say sachin bats for records...

Anil_Khan · September 30, 2007, 8:22am

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An inevitablilty but sad nonetheless.

Gonna miss his presence on the pitch; he did great things for Pakistan and stood tall for the country at the Oval. Deserved a better send off than this though.

Thanks Inzi for everything

fair_balance · September 30, 2007, 8:26am

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Great guy..I admired him greatly as cricketer. He provided some good laughter also. But he will be remembered for his lazy elegant and innocent smiles..
Oval was his worst point though.It was total un-sportman like behaviour.
Inzi the cricketer will be missed a lot.

ravage · September 30, 2007, 12:40pm

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iconic pakistani batsman for the good part of two decades

Aalsi · September 30, 2007, 1:14pm

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One of the greatest cricketers produced by Pakistan.

phoenixdesi · September 30, 2007, 2:58pm

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I have not heard/read these news anywhere.....

Nikka_Kaka · September 30, 2007, 3:53pm

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Greatest cricketer:jhanda:

shriek11 · September 30, 2007, 4:06pm

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What is soooo great about him? He never delivered when Pakistan needed it in any matches. At least, imran delivered and we got the world cup.

brahmachari99 · September 30, 2007, 4:16pm

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Great batsman. He'll be missed. It's a shame that all of our great cricketers, including IMRAN KHAN, were pushed out at the end. None seem to have left at their own will.

fair_balance · September 30, 2007, 5:51pm

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So you think winning worldcup is only considered delivering..This means following cricket never delivered
Botham
Hadlee
Sachin
Dravid
Lara…

If inzi is considered a guy who didnot delivered then no cricketer ever delivered.

meherealone · September 30, 2007, 7:11pm

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i thinks he wants that worldcup should be held after each 6 months

yaasir · September 30, 2007, 7:43pm

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one of the greatest cricketers Pakistan ever produced. I think he should have announced this when he reitred from ODI's. But nonetheless, if true..a good decision by him..cuz he knew he wasnt gonna get selected anyway.

Lucid_Chaotic · October 1, 2007, 2:19am

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I'm surely gonna miss him - His batting prowess has been the highlight of my cricket watching years… I missed him most in the latest 20/20 final when I was so sure that if he were in place of Misbah (granted… in the same form too), then Pak might have made it. He had a knack for taking Pakistan past the finish line.

I was never a fan of his captaincy and/or leadership skills or lack thereof – but as a batsman, I have great respect for him.

I was hoping to see him in a few more test matches for Pakistan – and to see him leave with a record that would have officially put him in the books. It’s a pity to see him leave forcibly.

It’s quite shameful to see the PCB “negotiate” his exit in return for an honor gala… despicable really - the level of ungratefulness!

Robert · October 1, 2007, 9:25pm

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Inzi, the 8th greatest pakistani player ever
after
Imran, Javed, Waseem, Waqar, Zaheer, Hanif & Yousuf

glamorous · October 1, 2007, 9:27pm

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inzii retired

Decent_6Chora · October 3, 2007, 1:43am

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As per jung, PCB has reached to an understanding with Inzi that he will be included in 2nd test of the SA series and he will announce his retirement on Friday and 2nd test will be the last one of this career. PCB will organize a farewell party for Inzi and will “gift” him 100,000 Rs. (Deals all around )

Source: Daily Jang: Urdu News - Latest Breaking News update Pakistan - jang.com.pk

What a great player he is, what a sad way to retire !

brahmachari99 · October 3, 2007, 2:02am

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I hope he gets a century. South Africa is the only country he doesn't have a century against.... he came close early this year with a match winning 92 not out, but he ran out of partners before he could complete the century.

smooth_guy · October 3, 2007, 2:08am

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not 100,000 but 10,000,000 (Rs. 1 Corer).

Inzi was a very good batsman of his time. Very exciting to watch when in full swing. However, he had a dumb cricketing brain, was a bad athlete and worse captain (dictator for nothing).

He can coach under 16 as a batting consultant. Only thing he can tranfer to next generation is timing the ball, he was great at it.