Pakistan T20 team for UAE series

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**Pakistan T20 team for UAE series announced **

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                                                                                                           LAHORE: Kamran Akmal has paid the price for his fumbles during the Australian tour by being dropped from Pakistan's Twenty20 squad to take on England in Dubai on February 19-20.

The team will be led by Shoaib Malik, who captained in Shahid Afridi’s absence in Melbourne, for both games.

Afridi, Pakistan’s regular Twenty20 captain, has been banned for two matches after being found guilty of ball-tampering in the fifth ODI against Australia in Perth. Having already sat out the Melbourne game, he will miss the first match against England on February 19.

There are other significant changes to the squad that toured Australia. Abdul Razzaq has replaced Naved-ul-Hasan, and Yasir Arafat has also returned. The fast bowlers Mohammad Talha and Wahab Riaz, with the Pakistan A side to play against the England Lions in Dubai, are also part of the squad, and Mohammad Aamer has been named in the reserves. Aamer picked up a groin injury that ruled him out of the last three ODIs and the Twenty20 in Australia. The selectors have also kept middle-order batsman Aamer Sajjad in the UAE with the senior squad - he is vice-captain of the Pakistan A team - as a reserve along with pacer Rao Iftikhar Anjum.

Pakistan squad: Shoaib Malik (capt), Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Khalid Latif, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Yasir Arafat, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Talha, Wahab Riaz, Umar Gul.

**Reserves: Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Aamer Sajjad, Mohammad Aamer.

**Thank God Naveed has been dropped and Razzaq is back.

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OMG ehsan uncle should I even bother going to see the matches this time? :naraz:

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yes you should, but lets have a GS banner as well.

My prediction: Pakistan will win 2/0, despite what happened in Aus.

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Malik named captain to keep stability
Osman Samiuddin

February 8, 2010

**Shoaib Malik will captain both Twenty20 internationals against England in Dubai later this month despite the return of regular captain Shahid Afridi because the board does not want to change leaders in the middle of tours. **

Malik led Pakistan in the Melbourne Twenty20 against Australia last week, after Afridi was banned for two matches for tampering with the ball during the last ODI against Australia in Perth. That ban means Afridi will also miss the first game against England, on February 19, though he returns for the second game the following evening.

But because the tour is so short, the PCB has decided against changing the captaincy and keeping Malik in charge. There has been speculation since Afridi was caught on TV biting the ball repeatedly that his future as the format’s captain is in doubt. Malik, Pakistan’s captain in all three formats as recently as last year, is being talked about as a candidate again but Wasim Bari, the board’s chief operating officer, played down such notions.

“It is not a good idea to have one captain in one match and another in the next,” he told Cricinfo. “There is no point in doing it match to match so we decided, as it is a short tour, to just keep Malik as captain for both games. **Afridi is our captain in the format. Had there not been a ban, there would not have been a problem.” **

**Of equal significance is the absence of Intikhab Alam, Pakistan’s coach, from the squad and his future with the side. Most often the public face of Pakistan in defeat, Intikhab has come in for increasingly heavy criticism after the Australian tour. He is due to appear before a board inquiry committee later this week and Ijaz Ahmed, coach of the Under-19 side and who will alredy be in Dubai as head of the A side, will join the senior squad as a batting and fielding coach. Perhaps tellingly, Bari refused to be drawn over Intikhab’s future. **

“There is no word yet on Intikhab’s future. There is an inquiry being held at the moment and subsequently it will be decided. Ijaz is not the coach but the batting and fielding coach for the side there,” Bari said. “Daniel Vettori and New Zealand also toured without a coach and it has happened before so it is not so unusual.”

link----> Shoaib Malik named captain to keep stability | Cricket News | Pakistan v England 2009/10 | Cricinfo.com

No U-Turn this time , PTI tendering resign befor 14 August ,
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So I guess GEO and ARY were right. They had been reporting for the last couple days that Malik has been named captain for both T20's in UAE, Kamran Akmal is dropped and Ijaz Ahmed will be joining the squad instead of Inti.

Damn...for once our media was spot on! :p

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LOL are u serious? If I take a GS banner to the match, GS people seeing the match will know who I am :p

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Why Sohail Tanveer is not in squad?

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What has Sohail Tanveer achieved in the last year?

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^ exactly! :rotfl: :hehe: :rotfl:

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the question is that will afridi play in second t20 under malik???????

why amir in reserve r they mad ????

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This is insane. Afridi is regular captain, if he is banned then he should be back as captain once his ban is over. So that means Malik will captain and Ijaz Ahmad (involved in match fixing in the past) will be batting coach. Why no Mohammad Aamir in the Squad and he is a reserve? He did exceptionally good in NZ & Australia. That must be a slap in the face, unless he is not fully recovered. If if thats the case, why is he a reserve and with the squad? Makes no sense.

I am not a fan of Kamran Akaml in test matches, but as we saw in the Aus T20, you need him for T20 as a hard hitting batsmen. Oh man, this means Imran Farhat will open. Not for the world T20. Whatever happened to Shahzib Hassan who open for us at the World T20 in 2009.

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I think we will miss Kamran .... although his poor performance in test & ODI's i still recommend him as T20 specialists like Gul who was failed in TEST & ODI's

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lol

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Razzaq's career is finished ......

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was he given a proper chance ???

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Thats so bad i guess Kamran is the best T 20 player and he can play very well

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Was he not?

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the answer is that he was not given proper chance ..........he should be picked up n b given proper chance like butt n farhat n other players

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So who do you suggest we drop, only three seamers can play, Aamir, Asif and Gul, which one, remember Gul is devastatingly good in T/20.

No U-Turn this time , PTI tendering resign befor 14 August ,
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Last chance for Pakistan to win a few matches before a long time off. Hopefully PCB will be able to get a few more matches organized in between.