Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Samb. Brother, please be careful in selecting your words. Your selection of titles clearly indicates against whom you have prejudices.
While bashing Mohammad Yusuf, you twice used the word "Bearded moron", along with "Hazrat Yusuf" and "Maulana Sahib"
Clearly indicates what problem do you have. Please try to discuss only cricket on this forum while keeping aside your prejudices and judgement of anyone's character.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Cricket is a sport. Not a tableeghi get together. Instead of preaching religion, Yousuf should concentrate on his game if he wants to play for Pakistan!
If he wants to preach, then he should stop playing international cricket..for good this time!!
Cricket is a sport. Not a tableeghi get together. Instead of preaching religion, Yousuf should concentrate on his game if he wants to play for Pakistan!
If he wants to preach, then he should stop playing international cricket..for good this time!!
just out of curiosity, do you think that everyone that has a long beard is a Tableeghi?
for a change, how about, cricket is a game so stop judging players by the length of their beard and pay attention to their cricketing skills?
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Thats not the point sir. Hashim Amla also has a beard. Does he go about try to convert people to Islam while on an international cricket tour with his country?
Does he make it a point to pray in a tableegi jamaat on a cricket field during practice sessions for the world to see?
Does he commandeer the aisle on an international flight to pray? You can do so on your seat too.
Everyone has their own religion...but no one advertises it like Inzamam and Yousuf have since they joined the tableeghis.
I am firm believer that we all have to answer to God but since the tableegis took over, especially from the days of Inzamam and Yousuf these guys seem more interested in using tours to preach rather than play competitive cricket.
If they want to become preachers, kindly leave the game and go preach. Simple! This is a sport, a competitive one at that too, not a religious forum.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
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Kamran Akmal has paid the price for his poor performance in the first Test against England at Trent Bridge, and has been dropped from Pakistan's team for the second game at Edgbaston, which gets underway on Friday.
Team sources confirmed to Cricinfo that Zulqarnain Haider, the 24-year-old reserve wicketkeeper from Lahore, will come in as Akmal's replacement, and will therefore be making his Test debut, three years after a solitary Twenty20 appearance. Mohammad Yousuf, who arrived in the country less than 24 hours before the start of the match, has also ruled himself out of contention, citing tiredness.
Akmal's position came under fire following the Trent Bridge Test, in which he batted five balls for no runs in his two innings, while squandering a host of chances behind the stumps - most notably Eoin Morgan on 5, as he failed to gather a low edge from England's first-innings centurion - and Paul Collingwood, whom he reprieved in both innings, firstly a missed stumping on 48, and then a first-ball drop in front of first slip, only moments after his one bright moment, a sharp leg-side take off Kevin Pietersen.
With six centuries from 51 Tests, Akmal's experience has tended to outweigh his propensity for poor performances behind the stumps, most notably at Sydney in January earlier this year, when he managed to reprieve Michael Hussey three times off Danish Kaneria, as Australia overcame a first-innings deficit of 207 to win a thrilling contest that, sadly but inevitably, attracted the interest of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit.
All told, Akmal has dropped 34 chances in his last 28 Tests, and he averages less than 17 in Tests against Australia, South Africa and England. The first evidence that a change behind the stumps was afoot came when Zulqarnain lined up alongside the full slip cordon for today's final practice session, with Akmal left to warm up alone on the other side of the field.
Zulqarnain was a member of Pakistan team that beat West Indies in the final of the Under-19 World Cup in 2004, and was named in his first Test squad later that year. He has been made to wait a long time for his opportunity.
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Cricinfo is reporting Kamran and myousef saab are both out.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Lets see who shows up tomorrow...Cornered tigers or dogs with their tails between their legs.
Time to see if they learned to play late swing in 4 days.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
drop all the wicketkeepers and spinners you want, but it is plain for a moron to see that unless the batsman start producing, this team is going nowhere.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
^ that is a true statement, we need REAL batsmen. Wicketkeeper and bowlers can get the other team out but who will score runs??
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
England 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Jonathan Trott, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Eoin Morgan, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steven Finn
Pakistan 1 Salman Butt (capt), 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Azhar Ali, 4 Umar Amin, 5 Umar Akmal, 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Zulqarnain Haider (wk), 8 Mohammad Amir, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Mohammad Asif
Salman Butt has won the toss and Pakistan will bat.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
the managment should send Umer and shoieb up the order....why only these new kids should face the music
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
am i right in saying Haider is making his debut?
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
I don’t know what they want from Umar Amin & Umar Akmal 
3rd Umar Gul is ok 
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ther are reminding me Saleem Yousaf (keeper), Saleem Malik & Saleem Jafaar …
am i right in saying Haider is making his debut?
Yes he is making his test debut. He has played one ODI before though.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Salman Butt has won the toss and Pakistan will bat. He says it's the positive thing to do - put a total on the board. Butt says resting Yousuf was the sensible decision given that he hasn't had much chance to practice back home. *Shoaib Malik has also been listed at No. 4, which is a change from No. 6 in the first Test. *
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
From Cricinfo:
Here's Keith Bennett to kick off the feedback: "While I understand Mohammad Yousuf hasn't had much of a chance to practice lately, look at the Pakistan batting! Even if Yousuf hadn't played for two years, he should be in the side."
Very True.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
Anderson to Imran Farhat, no run, there's an appeal, swinging in and on the leg-stump line and Steve Davis calls not out. But here we go, an early review! Gee, it didn't look a terribly convincing appeal but in fact it has pitched just in line, ah, but it's going over the top! England are already down to one review.
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
I can’t take tension of Pakistan match 
so only watching S. Lanka amazing fight back
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
And Tofeeq has been writing some poetry about Yousuf.** "PCB fired, he was retired. PCB hired, he is tired."**
Re: Pakistan v England - 2nd Test - Aug 6-10
*So that's a 24-ball duck for Imran Farhat. *
7.5
Broad to Imran Farhat, OUT, gone! First wicket falls as Farhat tickles a catch through from a ball that simply pitched on line, angled across the left-hander and was full enough to make him play - an easy catch for Prior
8/1