‘Omission of deserving players hurting Pakistan’

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I think he is saying what I have been saying all along. Pakistan has no dearth of talent in batting. What is needed is an unbiased selection process.

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KARACHI: Pakistan have suffered their second successive defeat in the four-Test series against England because the cricket board has ignored deserving players from Karachi and other places, Secretary Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) Prof Ejaz Faruqi said here on Monday.

He expressed his dismay over the role of the selection committee and the PCB who he said continued to neglect talented and deserving players which had caused the national team to flop badly against England.

“Selectors denied opportunities to talented batsmen like Khurram Manzoor, Khalid Latif, Faisal Iqbal, Sarfraz Ahmed, Asad Shafiq and a few others which was reflected in Pakistan’s dismal show in Tests.”

Ejaz insisted that Pakistan was not short of talented players but poor selection policies and injustice with the players was the cause of team’s abjectly poor performance.

“I** am surprised that a completely out of touch Mohammad Yousuf was picked** for the Tests while many deserving players were left out,” he said.

Prof Faruqi said Pakistan cricket is suffering due to inconsistent and unilateral policies of the** Ijaz Butt-led PCB**.—APP

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/cricket/former-greats-fear-for-future-of-cricket-in-pakistan-jd-03
In an unusual move on Tuesday, the Karachi City Cricket Association, the country’s biggest and most influential cricket association, passed a resolution at its executive council meeting deploring the team’s performances.

“The association is concerned at the pathetic performances of the team in England only because the Pakistan board and national selection committee has failed to pick a representative team capable of defending Pakistan’s prestige and image,” it said in a statement.

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and other places?
Although I know that batting is awful and they should let some good talent come in by fair selection. Although Ijaz Butt :D what can I say..

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Sure.

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Khurram Manzoor, Khalid Latif, Faisal Iqbal?

give me a break for god's sake. none of these players are bradman. they were all given chances before and for much longer before Azhar Ali, Umar Amin, Umar akmal were considered.

it is pretty pathetic to hide behind ethnicity/region when it should be obvious that the players are mediocre. if they were all Miandads, no one would have been able to keep them out of the team. Karachiites whine all the time.

let me introduce you to Shahid Afraidi. he is a Karachiite. he has been playing cricket for 12-13 years - 85-90% of that time he did not deserve a place in the team. yet somehow he managed to stay in there. he is also the current captain of the ODI/T20 team. he would have been the test captain as well if he hadn't quit after realizing that he was a scared little girl trying to play a man's game. two of our captains in the past 10 years were from Karachi - Moin and Rashid. does that sound like bias to you? you didn't hear the rest of Pakistan whining about a Karachiite being captain. I might hate Afraidi but even then it's not because he is a Karachiite... it's because he's a siht player.

so, for God's sake, stop whining and stop embarrassing yourself. Karachi doesn't have a Miandad playing in every street. its so-called neglected players are mediocre and despite that they've gotten chances. so, maybe it's time to try some other players? if they're no good, I'm sure we can bring back mediocre rubbish like Faisal Iqbal, Khurram Manzoor, etc.

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Agreed with Samb.

You can convince yourself by giving it a 'regional' twist but the players you have mentioned are below average to be honest. You are not doing anyone a favour by planting this seed.

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Samb you zardari supporter get your facts right before you get excited and start typing …

go on this website and check the domestic ranking for players for 2010 .

again DO NOT GET EXCITED when you see top 3 players from PUNJAB make sure you check there age as well

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listen up Altaf Terrorist Hussain’s propaganda machine.

going by your link, don’t Aamer Sajjad, Naeemuddin and M. Hafeez deserve to be in the team? in fact, I’d say they’re being victimized given that they’re the top performers and yet still out of the team when retards like Afraidi are in the team.

and I also see that all 3 are from Punjab. so, if anything it seems to me that it is the Punjabi players are being victimized.

hope Altaf bhai won’t have me gunned down for saying that. should I look over my shoulder when I leave for work tomorrow? good thing that Muttahida Qaatil Movement is considered a terrorist party in Canada.

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I don't indulge in this 'ethnic' team discussion but there is truth to it. Salman Butt is no Amer Sohail or Saeed Anwar, neither is Imran Farhat, but see how long they have been given chances. Look at Kamran Akmal, the dental patient has been on team's back for how many years? Look at Shoaib Malik.

I do agree Faisal Iqbal is retarded, but he is no different than Imran Farhat. But I can assure you that Khurram Manzoor, Khalid Latif, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Asad Shafiq are not worse. The selection in the team may not necessarily be because of 'ethnicity' but is based on friendship, relationships with captain, ruling group in the team, chairman Ijaz Butt etc. In current situation since the captain and ruling group are from Lahore so the influx is mostly from around that area.

I am not suggesting that we enforce any quota based selection, rather stop the selection based on friendship/relationships/sifarish and enforce merit, thats all we need to do.

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lol

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Punjab vs karachi :omg: :rotfl:**

we’ll never be Pakistanis

Happy independence day ***
Thankyou Losers … :cadet:*

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lol pp here r saying that m.hafiz deserves a place must be kidding or else they r mad

how many times he got a chance n didny performed ....i remember last tour of eng he failed he failed in 07 t20 n 09 t20 cup

he is nothing but a good domestic player cant perform at the highest level

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I thought Khoji was a sensible guy, who can see whats going wrong but looking at his current whining, it looks like he is another ethnic /biased kind of person who hold everyone else responsible for his loses... it would be good if mods can help to keep this kind of discussion out of this forum atleast...

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yup v dont need such kinda discussions which is against the pakistani team or promotes ethinic/biased

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^^ True otherwise future threads would be something like this

Punjabi Player got Karachite runout!!!

Punjabi Player drop a catch on Karachite Bowling

Punjabi player was promoted up the batting line up by punjabi captain/coach etc

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ya these kinda discussions is not good for KK too

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I honestly think that I am saying is not based on blind ethnicity or nationalism.

Captain may be right. It may not be due to ethnicity but due to nepotism (you know, aqraba-parwari).

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There won't be any such discussion if the team's composition was based on merit alone. But this is not the case now. If this discussion is unwanted then blame the selectors for it. Don't shoot the messenger.

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this and...

Instead of ethnicity I see friendship with captain and other team/PCB officials/players as the key factor in selection otherwise there is no way Tipu Sulman butt, Farhat and Malik can cling onto their places. Any new player from any other place (or in fact from Punjab) can not be any worst than these guys.

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The problem with your posts is that your venom is not against PCB but punjabis and that gives it ethnic colour. you obviously believe it. I do not beleive in all this bull**** and think it is more to do with PCB than any other thing. Place in the team should be on merit and if that means all 11 players are from Lahore or Karachi than so be it.

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You should have saved it for the independence day. Pathetic. Please let people enjoy cricket without getting into Punjabi vs rest of Pakistan...

BTW, Happy Independence Day.