Question for you all.
Who was the member of the Pakistan team braintrust that decided to play Razzaq in a test. The guy can’t even get a wicket in ODI’s and you play him as your third paceman in a test. Once Sami was injured, they were forced to overbowl Shoaib because Razzaq has no chance of getting a wicket with his gentle medium pace.
I am starting to have second thoughts about Woolmer, you think an experienced cricket man would know that something like this could happen.
Theres no doubt we are really mimssing Shabbir Ahmed and Umar Gul, but I think Rana would have been a much better choice than Razzaq to play in this match.
I agree 100% with you and mentioned this at the start of the test match. Razzaq is not a test player...and every time he has played a test match...he has struggled...and using him as our third pacer was one of the stupidest things Pakistan could do. I know some people will say he was unlucky not to have a couple of wickets...but the only batsmen who ever who he ever troubled was Jaysuriya...and it wasn't because of his great bowling it was because Jaysuriya was going after everything outside the off stump.
they will play razzaq because they are very insecure about their batting, we miss shabbir a lot, if razzaq wants to play in tests he will have to find that old form again, with that pace!