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^^ that is also a likelihood…if they do that…I say ban both of them …
Why Kamran Akmal stays…
Why Kamran Akmal stays…
1. It’s the biggest hustle in history
Kamran has set you up. Come squeaky-bum time, i.e. the quarters and beyond, batsmen will poke outside off and dance down the wicket without a care in the world, secure that the Pakistan keeper will fluff everything that comes his way. But the real Kamran will suddenly emerge, taking impossible stumpings and diving catches like a brown Ian Healy on PCP. Of course, pigs might fly too, and Bal Thackeray might garland the Pakistan team on the streets of Mumbai, and Ravi Shastri might complete a sentence without a cliché.
2. Sheer national arrogance
Having already won a World Cup, Pakistan want a challenge. They want to make a statement that will last for eternity. They want to leapfrog the Spartans in the pantheon of mythic warrior-victors. What better way to do this than by winning with the worst wicketkeeper in the history of all cricket in all places, including back gardens, grungy alleyways and long office corridors.
3. Chopsticks
There must be something Kamran has done to have convinced five captains and numerous selection committees to give him a go. It might be a circus trick in training, behind closed doors, an act of genius that hypnotises otherwise sensible men, such as Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohsin Khan. Or maybe he once had a long Chinese lunch with Ijaz Butt and did a Mr Miagi. That would fool anyone, especially a fool.
4. He scored a series-winning Test century against India from 39 for 6
Get under the skin of India and you’re set for life in Pakistan. (Shoaib Malik seems to be an extreme exception to this rule.)
5. Brotherly love
Umar Akmal has become essential to Pakistan’s middle order, providing much-needed impetus and energy. He might’ve said he won’t play unless Kamran is in the side, thus picking one of two options available to Pakistani brothers: either love each other a little too much with unstinting loyalty, or squabble over the family inheritance and communicate exclusively in fistfights.
6. He’s just going through a bad patch
Anyone who watched Barcelona last night will seriously consider if this is the best team in the history of club football. Yet Barcelona didn’t win La Liga between 2000 and 2004. Now recall that four years ago Kamran was all set to be the best keeper-batsman in the world. Cricket world, I present Kamran Akmal: Mes Que Un Keeper.
7. Monopoly
The last three men to keep wicket for Pakistan were all Akmals. Along with blasphemy and copyright, the country might also consider tweaks to its laws about fair competition.
8. A Waqar masterplan
In an attempt to encourage his team to bowl straight, coach Waqar Younis has insisted on persevering with a keeper less likely to take a catch than Geoffrey Boycott’s grandmother. Waqar took 56% of his international wickets either bowled or lbw. Perhaps he is being a little too didactic in his “do as I did” ways. I mean, come on Waqar, they’re not ten-year-olds. (Having said that, I have not checked Ahmed Shehzad’s birth certificate; his shot selection certainly indicates a pre-pubescent mindset.)
9. He’s actually a “kali bakri”
Pakistanis are a spiritual people - and superstitious. Kamran is there to condense all the evil energy directed at the team into one person. He’s a tough little munchkin and he can take it. Thus the team can excel, free of all bad vibes, while Kamran gets the nation’s goat.
10. His replacement ran away to a curry house in England in fear of organised crime
This sentence looks absurd but it is here, friends, that the jokes come to a crashing stop and reality intercedes. We might just have been stumped by the most plausible explanation.
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drop Akmal and replace with other Akmal ! darn, now we gotta worry about the second Akmal jeopardizing the game cuz his brother aint playing. We're doomed no matter what.
Akmalled if you do, Akmalled if you dont.
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This is just brilliant. 
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I was just reading this and was thinking about opening this 
A good read 
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ahahaha, mint.
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Good one
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- He's actually a "kali bakri" Pakistanis are a spiritual people - and superstitious. Kamran is there to condense all the evil energy directed at the team into one person. He's a tough little munchkin and he can take it. Thus the team can excel, free of all bad vibes, while Kamran gets the nation's goat.
:D
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brilliant :k:
Re: Why Kamran Akmal stays…
- He’s actually a “kali bakri”
Pakistanis are a spiritual people - and superstitious. Kamran is there to condense all the evil energy directed at the team into one person. He’s a tough little munchkin and he can take it. Thus the team can excel, free of all bad vibes, while Kamran gets the nation’s goat.
^^ that takes the cake…
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I think...there is not much can be done about Kamran Akmal...any amount of training cannot guarantee his performance in a match...he simply gets lazy at some given moments...which is not under his control...
Those kind of faring/behaviour in group matches is not a big problem...I guess...but for sure will be disastrous for the team in knock-out matches...
In the last match of Pak-NZ...Afridi's captaincy was much below par...after one or two crucial drops...he should have intervened and substituted wicket-keeping during the innings as it was progressing... :)
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Do we have the worst wicket keeper in the whole cricketing world (history)? Or have you guys seen worst than this one as well?
I havent!
Statistics show otherwise...he is still the best wicket-keeper in the history of Pakistan Cricket...but alas...he has his disastrous moments...for the team and for the nation...hmmmmmmmmm
PS: I won't recommend him for the knock-out matches though... :)
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Guyz, we have no idea of how much talented Kamran Akmal is!!
Lets see what he actually did after Pak v/s NewZealand finished…
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^^ Zaby - I think its more a psych issue where he looses focus on the immediate.....or he suffers from slow reflexes....
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muhahahaha
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re: Kamran Akmal's keeping - Chronicles of his disastrous glove work
Akamal and his keeping ! Irresistible temptation not to post your thoughts on such a thread !
He's not stupid to understand all the devastation and embarrassing moments he has caused, not only to Pakistan but also upon himself, HE SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED from wicket keeping !!! Even this salvation is way too late now
As ehsan bhai indicated his batting has few bright periods but thats about all, and nothing more to write home about. He should BURY HIS GLOVES somewhere DEEP !!!!
re: Kamran Akmal's keeping - Chronicles of his disastrous glove work
^ Exactly. Any cricketer with even an iota of self respect would have stepped down by now, for the sake of his own personal reputation and his team. Instead he proceeds to serve as the laughing stock of the cricketing world.
As for all those citing his batting? Please. The amount of matches he has won compared to those he has lost is probably 1:10. The only reason he is even in the reckoning as a batsman is not because he is some Pakistani Gilchrist but because in the last 10 years Pakistan has had morons like Farhat, Nazir, Hafeez etc. as openers. Andhon main kana raja.
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No wonder when they say ’ Behind every successful batsman , there is kamran Akmal ’ 
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