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o bhai captain, aap ne aadhi team hi drop ker di! 
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umar akmal is a born and gifted batsman but he should be handled properly ,i mean he should be disciplined . rest should be immediately replaced with young talent which must be playing in lower tournaments in pakistan , if imran ,jaheer ,javed, were pakistani then certainly their replacements are in pakistan , replace all the antique peices like razzak,misbah,younus ,afridi, shoib akhtar …………., they are declining, depleting day by day ,they are past their primes ,now they are barring young talents who are waiting in the wings to get a chance step in ,they will show their worth but give them chance . you cant afford to keep this antique team ,one day you have to do this thing ,better do it immediately.
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The greatest mistake Pakistan done was ,Afridi batted low down the order.He should have opened the batting or first down.
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The greatest mistake Pakistan done was ,Afridi batted low down the order.He should have opened the batting or first down.
as dhoni promoted him self and faced the challenge head on , a fearless lion.
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^Yes.Exactly.
I am still surprised to see why he did not take that initiative.He was a big sucess in Indian subcontinents earlier..
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We need young blood
no more razzaq younis misbah and kamran plzzzzzzzzzzz
True!
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tell your cricket board to honour and take care of senior players like India does. I was only wondering the other day, sachin must be same age, even if not older, to Inzamam, Saeed Anwar etc. Our actual dilemma is inconsistency and too much politics inside the board. Take and make cricket a sport, as it should be. Young players can serve well but they lack experience anyway.
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We need to drop Ijaz Butt. Rest Afridi as he wants for WI tour. Drop Misbah and Younus from ODIs. Drop Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal if he wants to sit out with his brother. Make Hafeez the captain for West Indies tour. Bring in Shahzaib and Azhar Ali.
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Afridi will go on windies tour he confirmed it
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We need to drop Ijaz Butt. Rest Afridi as he wants for WI tour. Drop Misbah and Younus from ODIs. Drop Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal if he wants to sit out with his brother. Make Hafeez the captain for West Indies tour. Bring in Shahzaib and Azhar Ali.
Cant agree more. I so wish that pakistan makes imran khan charmain of PCB. he can turn this team around and also add some thing to his resume while he is trying his hand in politics
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Again...again...again...and yet again...lol
-T-20...max age 25...and then move to ODI format...(blitz & brisk players...the future)
ODI...max age 30...and then move to Test format
Test...max age 35...and then move to coach or something else...
PS: Coaches' age should be relative (max 45 years old) according to the format...and every format must have a different competitive coach...not the same damn coach for every format...
PS1: The need for a think-tank for every format to strategize tactfully the game a la carte...hmmmmmmmm
PS2: The game belongs to the Survival of the Fittest...hmmmmm2 :D
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Please Please dont drop Misbah-ul-Haq......He is the best player for test ;)
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Only Sachin, approaching 38. Most of the rest will be around in 2015!
I would not be surprised if Sachin is also around in 2015.
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I would not be surprised if Sachin is also around in 2015.
You said it. I somehow doubt that he would still be playing in 2015. Zaheer 36 or 37 (in 2015) won't be around either. Sachin should now focus his attention on scoring a test triple century.
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:eek
:no:
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i’d like to see him scoring 400+ 
in the upcoming series against England … Stuart Broad ki boothee dhaikhney wali hoti jab uski pehnti parrey 
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\04\05\story_5-4-2011_pg3_6
The postmortem
VIEW: Post mortem —Fakir S Ayazuddin
It does seem that our country has been cheated and our sovereignty surrendered under our very noses by a handful of corrupt elected politicians
In every institution an analysis of the reasons for failure are essential to establish the root causes, so that the same mistakes are not repeated. In Pakistan, unfortunately — as in any closed society — a post mortem is never really allowed, or its findings are not acted upon, making the whole exercise superfluous. This is the reason behind the increasing decline in our cricketing capabilities. When it was apparent that the Akmal brothers were not obeying instructions, and Kamran Akmal had performed below par, where — on being told he was to be dropped for the next match — he ‘injured’ his finger, alarm bells should have rung in the PCB chairman’s head, and both brothers should have been sent home immediately. However, the chairman chose to ignore the warning signals, and continued with the Akmals.
As a bookie on a talk show recently explained, in every ‘fix’ there is a protector in the administration who ensures that no serious harm will befall the culprits. It has been amply demonstrated that no less than the Chairman PCB, Ijaz Butt, has shepherded the brothers up to the semi-final. We will not be in such a vantage position again for a long time to come, facing such a weakened opposition. The Indians were over the hill, and their star Tendulkar scored his 85 with four very lucky lives. He is a legend used to making chanceless centuries.
In Mohali, he was gifted these chances by an overly generous Pakistani field. If our team management sitting in the Mohali pavilion were not asleep, they would have realised that Misbah was batting at a test innings pace. He played 40 dot balls (including a maiden over), and, as we lost by 29 runs, it can safely be said that we gifted the match to India.
The stupidity of the chairman filtered down to the field, and it is truly surprising that nobody could point out these blunders to the management while the game was on. Surely, the water-boy could have taken the message to Misbah to accelerate the score. Miandad won the World Cup for us by keeping one eye on the scoreboard, and managed the pace of his innings.
With such a surfeit of talent in Pakistan, it is incredible that we could not produce a wicket keeper and Ijaz allowed us to be blackmailed by the Akmal brothers. These two should be banned from Pakistani cricket forever for their role in the New Zealand game. Umar Akmal should not be allowed anywhere near a cricket ground. All of these blunders can be blamed simply on the stupidity of the chairman, deliberate or otherwise.
Even his claiming the credit for the high finish is nonsense, for the cup should have been in our possession, so bad were the others. We were worse.
We have only our political leadership to blame and ourselves for having allowed their elevation to power. Cricket is our national passion; the entire nation feels gutted, and rightly so, for victory and the cup were both so close.
It does seem that our country has been cheated and our sovereignty surrendered under our very noses by a handful of corrupt elected politicians. That even the Supreme Court (SC) finds its judgments pending execution. No number of postmortems can help if the findings are ignored.
The writer is a freelance columnist
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^ :k: