I’m happy Wasim is in the squad. He is still our best player despite the criticisms. I hope he and Waqar can put aside their differences for the sake of our team.
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Originally posted by Spitfire:
** PCB announces Pakistan Test Squad for England Tour
Pakistan Cricket Board - 28 April 2001
The Chairman Selection Committee Pakistan Cricket Board announced the final squad consisting of 17 players for the Test Series in England next month.
Saeed Anwar
Mohammad Wasim
Faisal Iqbal
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Yousuf Youhana
Younis Khan
Rashid Latif (Wicket-keeper)
Waqar Younis (Captain)
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Abdur Razzaq
Mohammad Sami
Saqlain Mushtaq
Mushtaq Ahmed
Azhar Mahmood
Saleem Elahi
Imran Farhat
Mr Yawar Saeed (Manager)
Mr Mohammad Ahmad (Asst Manager)
Mr Daryl Foster (Bowling Coach/Consultant)
Mr Dale Naylor (Physio/Trainer)
I guess this squad is oK! but Afridi is not there.Wasim Akram using his sources finally gets in the squad and Moin Khan gets out!**
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The team is short of batsmen. Yunis Khan is a constant failure. Mohammad Wasim is a nervous wreck. Saleem Illahi is vulnerable to swing.Azhar Mahmud is a constant flop.
Mushtaq Mohammad is a spent force.
The worst decision is to include Wasim Akram. No doubt he is a great bowler, but how many times have we seen that whenever Wasim is in the team, we have lost matches because he is an intriguer and creates split in the team.
Anyway I wish Waqar good luck because Wasim will be there to fail him.
Shoaib Malik's action is questioned n i think if the euro people are given the right they will be ready to question the action of all Paki pacers n spinners.Any young guy if flourishes they object him.If look with the same eye then their bowlers are also not so pious.
Wasim is the team.terrible.But if he coordinate with Waqar then the bowling attack is nothing to bother of.But i think its difficult for the father to play under his son's team.
Batting is quite oK but sometimes they all fail.so pray for them.
no doubt abt wasim's abilities
but with him in team UNDER captanicy of someone he doesn't like, means he's gonna do everything in his power (i.e. his schemes, tricks, machinations etc. that he has been employing for so long now) to make pakistan lose and make waqar look like an incapable captain, just like he has done with all the other captains in the past. simply put, the man is a creep.
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Originally posted by Spitfire:
** PCB announces Pakistan Test Squad for England Tour
Pakistan Cricket Board - 28 April 2001
The Chairman Selection Committee Pakistan Cricket Board announced the final squad consisting of 17 players for the Test Series in England next month.
Saeed Anwar
Mohammad Wasim
Faisal Iqbal
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Yousuf Youhana
Younis Khan
Rashid Latif (Wicket-keeper)
Waqar Younis (Captain)
Wasim Akram
Shoaib Akhtar
Abdur Razzaq
Mohammad Sami
Saqlain Mushtaq
Mushtaq Ahmed
Azhar Mahmood
Saleem Elahi
Imran Farhat
Mr Yawar Saeed (Manager)
Mr Mohammad Ahmad (Asst Manager)
Mr Daryl Foster (Bowling Coach/Consultant)
Mr Dale Naylor (Physio/Trainer)
I guess this squad is oK! but Afridi is not there.Wasim Akram using his sources finally gets in the squad and Moin Khan gets out!**
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Yes saleem Ilahi cant play om swinging pitches.. I think Ijaz should had been picked.. he has been Paksitan most successful batsman in England... It not fair to drop him after few innings...did saleen and some others performed bettertahn him in NZ too ??
Wasim is in the team but he is going as the 17th player according to newspaper reports, which means he may not actually be playing as we are only playing two tests.
All Waqar has to do is to keep him out of 11 man squad for both tests. Not difficult when Wasim's status is of the '17th player'.
Wasim is really a threat to Pakistan but may be this time he has tuned his plan of losin Pakistan as he has earned a lot from Pakistan Cricket Board and this time he may have decided to play for Pakistan.
The Chairman of PCB has announced that it will be his last tour.Oh Wasim bechaara Walsh se aage na nikal saka!
M.Wasim is a boring batsman but that's good Wajahatullah Wasti is not selected.
But Imran Nazir,Afridi and FazleAkbar are dropped.