I’m so sick of his dropped catches and his stupid expressions thereafter.
Enough already!! Bring on Zulqarnain Haidar.
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^ I wasn't too impressed with Haider when he featured in a couple of matches last year... besides, he can't bat either.
Is the other Akmal any good?
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^ I wasn't too impressed with Haider when he featured in a couple of matches last year... besides, he can't bat either.
Is the other Akmal any good?
I would be okay with a solid wicket keeper who can take catches if he's a little weak on the batting side.
Not too sure about Adnan Akmal; but I say bring anyone else except Kamran. I've supported him the in the past but his nagging habit of dropping catches is REALLY irritating me.
Anyone else except Kamran.
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adnan akmal, brother of kamran is considered to be the better keeper. Sarfraz Ahmed who lead Pakistan's under-19 team last year is a pretty good wicket-keeping prospect as well.
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Yeah, Sarfaraz and Adnan are good keepers.
Kamran has been a below average keeper in last 4 years.
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This is one department where India has the opposite problem.
Too many players who can don the wicket-keeping gloves - Dhoni, Karthik, Uthappa and Dravid all in the playing eleven. Parthiv Patel performed superbly with India A recently....but cannot make it to the national team.
I think Akmal has survived this long only because there is no alternative, or so it seems.
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There HAS to be an alternative!
His wicket keeping is pathetic to say the least and his batting is mediocre at best.
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Yeah, Sarfaraz and Adnan are good keepers.
Kamran has been a below average keeper in last 4 years.
i have seen adnan as i played for a model town club and he plays for for another club in model town and he is not even close to kamran!!
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I think PCB is grooming Sarfaraz Ahmed for this role and i wouldnt be surprised if we see debut soon.
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adnan akmal, brother of kamran is considered to be the better keeper. Sarfraz Ahmed who lead Pakistan's under-19 team last year is a pretty good wicket-keeping prospect as well.
I have had the chance to play with Adnan Akmal and saw first hand how quick his reflexes and glovework are.This guy is a brilliant keeper. But I think Sarfraz Ahmad will have the chance pretty soon considering he has been groomed in U-19.
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Ahhhhhhhhhh....
Few month back people here were saying how greate Akmal is compared to Dhoni. Dhoni did good in English condition(compared to Akmal when he was there) and has not had any maor bad day yet.
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I have had the chance to play with Adnan Akmal and saw first hand how quick his reflexes and glovework are.This guy is a brilliant keeper. But I think Sarfraz Ahmad will have the chance pretty soon considering he has been groomed in U-19.
Does Adnan squeek and scream like Akmal?
By the way who did he drop this time?
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Can i get a chance in place of him? If I cant do any good, I cant do any worst too ! :)
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Seriously, I'm even ready for the return of Moin Khan.
Kamran in many ways resembles the team he suits up for. He'll make catches that you wouldn't blame him for missing and he drops the simplest of sitters.
Maybe if we bring more consistent players we might bring consisitency to our performance.
So frustrated with the position we are in the match.
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Mohammad Salman is by far the best wicket keeper in the country, maybe Sarfaraz Ahmed is a close second. I agree with Anil Khan. Akmal needs to go!
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Time running out for Akmal
Osman Samiuddin
October 2, 2007
Though he took three catches on the second day of the first Test against South Africa in Karachi, it was the one that got away from Kamran Akmal yesterday which could yet cost Pakistan.
Jacques Kallis was on 36 when he attempted to cut Danish Kaneria. He succeeded only in edging it; Akmal succeeded only in fluffing it. He rectified it but, 55 overs and 119 Kallis runs later, the true cost of the drop may ultimately prove much higher.
This isn’t a one-off, of course. Akmal’s form behind the stumps since his remarkable first year in the team as a regular has deteriorated so spectacularly that one journalist quipped that Kallis had found the unluckiest way to be dismissed in cricket: ‘caught Akmal’.
He has been persisted with through 27 consecutive Tests, and if the first 15 Tests were outstanding, the last 12 have been exceedingly poor. His batting has fallen away (only three fifties in that period) and he has read spinners, particularly Danish Kaneria, as adroitly as Englishmen used to pick Abdul Qadir.
Opinion on what has happened is not particularly diverse. Rashid Latif and Wasim Bari have long felt there are technical problems and that he should be rested. Imtiaz Ahmed, Pakistan’s first Test wicketkeeper, agrees, though he points out Akmal’s poor footwork particularly to the spinners.
“His [Akmal’s] initial movement is wrong: he should be moving his right foot to the right to an off-stump line, and not back as he does at the moment,” he told Cricinfo. “The technical shortcomings aren’t anything that can’t be overcome but he has to work at it. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to take him through recordings of his early career when he did well.”
The only question is how long Pakistan can persist with a man who has become, some snigger, the poor man’s Parthiv Patel. The selection committee has already started asking it. “He is a little off-colour at the moment,” Salahuddin Ahmed, Pakistan’s chief selector, admitted, “and we have been looking at other options as we should.”
Those options include Sarfraz Ahmed, who was captain and wicketkeeper of the Pakistan U-19 team that won the World Cup in 2006. He has since been impressing on the domestic circuit and played against the South Africans in the tour match for the Patron’s XI.
“Sarfraz was impressive in the warm-up and he also played a couple of crucial, fighting innings against Australia A, so he’s in form,” Salahuddin said. Also in the fray are Rawalpindi’s Zulqarnain Haider and Faisalabad’s Mohammad Salman, who comes with recommendations by Rashid Latif.
Immediate change is still unlikely - though not ruled out - mostly because of the security Akmal’s batting brings, especially on slower, subcontinent pitches. He opened Pakistan’s innings in place of Salman Butt and contributed a quickfire 42 to a much-needed solid start. “He is still a good batsman and that certainly helps his cause,” Salahuddin said. “It is a dilemma certainly and one we have to take a decision on.” Sooner, you think, rather than later.
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I have been a fan of Akmal since he started playing for Pak but my patience is running out. His keeping hasn't improved and his batting performance hasn't been all that impressive either. I think it is time to give someone else a chance perhaps his brother.
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I'm so sick of his dropped catches and his stupid expressions thereafter.
Enough already!! Bring on Zulqarnain Haidar.
**Shoaib Malik to Amla, no run, well forward outside off, gets well forward and across, maybe a inside edge, pad, dropped
Danish Kaneria to Kallis, no run, outside off, short, forcing off the back foot, DROPPED, edges, Akmal can not hold on
Mohammad Hafeez to Kallis, 1 run, sweeps, dropped again**
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The problem with Pakistan cricket is that they never groom a player...they never use their strategic planning properly since they always operate world cup to world cup.
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Its just sports man. Win or lose.