Pakistan hunt for bowling talent

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Pakistan hunt for bowling talent
Pakistan has launched a Pop Idol-style hunt for talented fast bowlers to face England later this year.

The Pakistan Cricket Board will hold trials in 10 cities across Pakistan and the best fast bowlers outside first-class competition will be picked.

“We need to have a better combination of fast bowlers and need to explore more talent,” said Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Six selected bowlers will join the national camp for the England series.

Pakistan have struggled to select a consistent pace attack since the retirement of 1990s greats Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

The Ashes series has generated a lot of hype and interest and after England’s performances we expect the same when they tour Pakistan
Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman

Shoaib Akhtar, the world’s fastest bowler but has been plagued by injuries, as has Mohammad Sami.

Another front-line pace bowler, Shabbir Ahmed, can only feature in the series against England if his action is cleared by the International Cricket Council in time.

The talent scouts, a team of former Test players headed by national selector Ehteshamuddin will start the search in Quetta on 20 September.

The final selection will be in Lahore on 16 and 17 October.

And the first Test against England begins in Multan on 12 November.

Pakistani authorities expect the tour to draw crowds and generate more revenue following their Ashes victory.

“The Ashes series has generated a lot of hype and interest and after England’s performances we expect the same when they tour Pakistan,” said the PCB’s Saleem Altaf

"I think we will have a lot of interest in the series and there should be more sponsorship and crowd participation.

“People will want to see Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison in action.”

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Desperate times require despearate actions? I disagree. If this is planning for the England series, well then this seems a little bit of a desperate attempt for a home side which has plenty of available talent (Shoaib, Sami, Gul, Shahid Nazir, Rana, Yasir Arafat, etc etc). Its about time PCB realized they have players who can deliver, recognize their talent and committment and treat them with the respect they have earned.

If this trend of discarding hard work and committment is ignored then Iam afraid there will be many more Mohd Akram's, Saqlain Mushtaq's and Mush Ahmeds applying for immigration in other countries.

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looks like Inzi wants some other "quickies" as we already have some medium pacers indicated by fartguru.

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Inzi doing what he does best ie looking for excuses…

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excuses? The series has not started yet. Stop your biased comments on Inzimam.
We do need geniune fast bowlers to back Shoaib and Sami up. Fast bowlers get injured everywhere in the world, but only those with backups continue with confidence. Bret Lee was away for a long long time, but Kasprowicz has filled that position very well. Now tait is also in line. Same with Harmison, Hoggard, SP Jones and Flintoff. They do have backups. Where as Pakistan had to step down to medium pacer, not even fast mediums, which is not so great against the top teams. So in case if Shoaib or Sami are not fit for a match in the middle of a series, we have a geniune fasty to replace as the new guy will get support from other fastie and the medium pacers.

While we are at it, I must say THEY SHOULD CHECK THE BOWLING ACTION OF THE NEW FASTIES FIRST, RIGHT AT THE TRIAL GROUND. A WATTA SHOULD NOT MAKE TO GADDHAFI STADIUM FOR TRAINING.

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Aray Chiknay bhai (smooth guy), pleeeze take off those shades u wear cause u fail to see the context and reference of discussion. Read all the comments then form an opinion, Iam sure u will feel better. If that doesnt work, try Hajmulla or Carmina churan kee tikya, one b4 sleeping and then let it rock…

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we need a solid batsman i think, we have an excellent pace attack, which when all fit and have a good combination bowling with younis captaining the side with an attacking field can be destructful i think, now i really do think we need a solid batsman who can bat 2 days, plz get rid of yousuf youhana and replace him with either misbah ul haq who never gets a real chance to prove his talent all they do is make him captain of A team. Also people are rating hasan raza high! we have to have a combination of young and experienced, i think this england series should be make or brake for yousuf youhana!

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one of my friends just told me that this search is similar to what india has introduced recently? is this true? do you guys have any knowledge abt this ?

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I am quite surprised by this decision because Mohammad Irshad seems to be doing well plus Abdul Rauf is a decent pacemen too.

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fartie, i know that you know the karmina/hajmola effectiveness very well, as your name suggest. Only the first line was for you, the rest of the comments were made on the artical in the opening post.

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I agree, they should actually hold “training camps” for the talent pool we already have, instead of spending resources on finding a “talent” we haven’t seen.

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Is this going to be telecasted or something?

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Yes everynight its going to shown live on ESPN sports center. ESPN team will go in all the gali muhala’s to telecast this talent hunt.

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Chiknay, you are most welcome, iam here to please your booty, no need to thank me…

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Pepsi-PCB Pace Attack 2005 talent hunt moves ahead

by Staff reporter

The contest is currently being held in Faisalabad where some 700 young fast bowlers appeared on the first day of the 2-day camp of the PEPSI-PCB Pace Attack 2005 being held in Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad.
Muhammad Talha was among the top bowlers of the day and clocked 81.9 mph followed by Dilawar Hasan and Naeem Ashraf who bowled with a speed of 81.5 mph and 81.2 respectively. The top 23 bowlers were selected to participate in the second round tomorrow to fight for the three top positions to take part in the final.

On 22 September, Nasir Ahmed, Mohammad Imran and Bilal Khan were selected from Peshawar after a two-day trial. They will appear in the final of the PEPSI-PCB Pace Attack 2005 to be held in Lahore.

Peshawar was the second venue for this speed contest for the countrywide search for fast bowlers jointly organized by Pepsi and PCB.

**More than 400 boys appeared **for the contest held at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Pesahwar on 22 September 2005.

Nasir Ahmed and Mohammad Imran clocked 84.6 mph and 80.6 mph respectively. The third bowler, Bilal Khan generated a speed of 79.1 mph.

The contest moves on next to Abbotabad.

Earlier, the city of Quetta played host to the start of the Pepsi-PCB Pace Attack 2005 talent hunt contest on 20th September 2005.

This countrywide talent hunt series of contests will culminate with the final to be held in Lahore on 16-17 October 2005. The pace attack talent hunt scheme is jointly organised by Pepsi and PCB.

This scheme is designed to find new fast bowling talent to be groomed to play for the Pakistan team when England tour Pakistan at the end of October and in future.

It was gratifying to see more than 300 bowlers appear for this first contest which was held at Bugti Stadium, Quetta.

Pace bowlers, Samiullah and Gauhar Faiz clocked 76.3 mph and 74.6 mph respectively. The third bowler, Irfanullah, who hails from Ustamabad, Nasirabad some 400 km away from Quetta, generated a speed of 73.3 mph.

Samiulah, Gauhar Faiz and Irfanullah have been selected from Quetta to take part in the final in Lahore.

The month long series of contests will be held in 10 cities namely, Quetta, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Multan, Hyderabad, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore.

The final will feature the 30 selected bowlers from these cities and the top six will join the Pakistan National Cricket camp for possible selection to play for the Pakistan team during the coming England tour which starts on 31 October 2005.

The "talent hunt" has begun... lets see what we get at the end of this exercise!

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Good to know that the cheap internet forum humour, as lame as it maybe, is still alive and kicking.

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The fastest bowler has been clocked at 84.6 mph... not a good sign... i hope we do find some faster onez here... even Razzaq has been clocked higher than that and he is a med-fast pacer...whatever happened to that guy Mohammad Zahid, he was pretty quick.. i thought he could bowl even faster than Shoaib..
are these tryouts taking place thruout the country or what??

Mosquito, anyone?
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Wouldn't be a bad idea if Geo or some other channel sponsors it and let the public decide who is the best bowler amongst the pool.

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well how old are these guys? if they are too young then one may expect an increase in their speed with the time but why the hell is speed the only criteria for their selection?

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no kidding. That’s almost in the hindian territory. 84.6:eek: That’s blinding speed for the darkie bala subramaniumplutoniumuraniumrajnishraokanta the veggie from southern hindia, but are you freakin kidding me. That’s all we can muster up. :rotfl: Talk about embarrassing.