he suppose to do his work, easy chances he missed can demoralize whole team and he did miss three of the easiest chances today... as for sangakara and canada he was criticized but.. not everytime he have to miss it, because it is a limit.. we had great keepers like Saleem Yousuf, Moin Khan ( Moving Khan) and Rashid Latif.. and in those days i never knew how much a bad keeper can cost, his cost doesn't worth his benefits, he had to go...
the moment he dropped those two catches, shoaib a rhythm bowler lost his momentum and this can happen to any bowler who have a keeper like Kamran the dandoo
Ofcourse he did make a mistake but that doesnt mean Shoaib should start bowling like that. Just now on TV Imran Khan said wats the use of Razzaq at No. 8. We lost the match already when he came to bat. Drop him or bring him up in the batting order and add one more specialist fast bowler. Umar Gul was amazing today but his quota was finished. We had to use Rehman in the end.
there is difference between mistake, irresponsible behavior and blunder…
the one he did against Srilanka can be labeled as mistake.. what he did today was most irresponsible behavior behind the wicket i have ever seen…
Shoaib is not man of steel… if you have someone like this person behind the wicket, who have loooooooooonggggggggg history of messing up things behind the wickets, none of the bowler would be thinking of passing a edge to the keeper, they’ll unintentionally change their line and bowling strategy… a single miss field or a catch drop can cost a match and thats what happened today… had this guy been caught on the 2 giving chances, there was no other batsman left in the lineup to build the innings, remember when he dropped twice by the GREAT KEEPER of all times you are trying defend, the total score of NZ was in doubles figures only and they were 2 or 3 wickets down…
there is difference between mistake, irresponsible behavior and blunder....
the one he did against Srilanka can be labeled as mistake.. what he did today was most irresponsible behavior behind the wicket i have ever seen...
Shoaib is not man of steel... if you have someone like this person behind the wicket, who have loooooooooonggggggggg history of messing up things behind the wickets, none of the bowler would be thinking of passing a edge to the keeper, they'll unintentionally change their line and bowling strategy..... a single miss field or a catch drop can cost a match and thats what happened today... had this guy been caught on the 2 giving chances, there was no other batsman left in the lineup to build the innings, remember when he dropped twice by the GREAT KEEPER of all times you are trying defend, the total score of NZ was in doubles figures only and they were 2 or 3 wickets down....
I admit he cost us match today. But playing with only two seamers is a big big mistake also Shoaib can go down anytime and then we are left with only one seamer and not changing combination against different teams will cost us matches. Our strength is fast bowling, we are making it more weak by just playing two seamers and one of them is not fully fit. Opening with spinner when pitch is helping seamer is bad captaincy. They should have included Ajmal because NZ played against Rehman alot.
Whats the use of Akmal behind the wicket. We lost the match already when he showed up there. How about getting a specialist wicket keeper. Lets call Zulqurnain if he is interested.
Whats the use of Akmal behind the wicket. We lost the match already when he showed up there. How about getting a specialist wicket keeper. Lets call Zulqurnain if he is interested.
Yes and half way thorugh the match with England he will defect to their team room and ask for asylum.
Birthday gift of the day
Ross Taylor turned 27 today. Then he came across Kamran Akmal, who gifted him two lives in three balls, on 0 and 4. Then he got a career-best hundred. Happy birthday Ross.
Calamity Kamran seems undroppable
How to approach this politely? Ian Chappell was pretty polite. "If his batting was as good as Don Bradman's," he said on air, "he couldn't score enough runs to make up for what he costs them with his keeping.".........
(He is ) not even the best wicketkeeper in his family. He's not even the second-best: Umar Akmal has looked safer than him on the occasions he has kept. Yet as Pakistan has changed everything about its cricket over the last four years - captains, selectors, chairmen, players, coaches - Akmal has remained unchanged, unchallenged in his incompetency.
“Yeah, the luck came early on. Perhaps, I owe a treat to Kamran (Akmal) and I think I should take him out for a dinner and give whatever he likes. This has been the slice of luck I have been searching for the last few months and today it came my way,” Taylor said on Tuesday.](http://www.deccanherald.com/content/144319/i-owe-kamran-treat-says.html)
OMG you guys are absolutely viscious! Yes, Kamran Akmal dropped catches but come on! its not like the rest of the team performed any better!
What in the world is going on with our batting? Even if we do a crappy job bowling and fielding, it should not affect our batting! Why is it that Ireland can chase down 327 but we cant even put up 200?
It is unfair to single out Akmal. So what he dropped a few catches, big deal. He drops catches all the time and that did not stop Pak wining their last 3 games. We have to start looking beyong Akmal to find real cause(s) of defeat. Akmal is here to stay and its time people should just accept it and move on.
"Predictably, it was Pakistan coach Waqar Younis addressed the media, and even more predictably he refused to put blame on Kamran Akmal, who twice gave reprieve to Taylor.
“It was a bad day for Kamran. What he dropped were sitters, but it can happen in cricket. We’ve got a few days of rest and we will try to work with Kamran and make him a better keeper for the next game. But we are not thinking about any change in wicketkeeper, we may think on those lines once the World Cup gets over.”
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ARREEE YOUUU KIDDDINNGGGGGGGGGGG MEEEEEEEEEEE??? Mr. coach, you would be saying the same if Srilanka had won the first match. How many bad days are yet to come for stupid akmal and how long are we going to pay for it?
Why in the world is pakistani management in total denial and refuse to learn from mistakes???
I mean, 4 games in a row and we’ve seen ridiculously third grade wicket keeping, we’ve seen most stupid opening, and we’ve seen worst batting order shuffling (referring Abdul Razzaq at 8). Still??
Is this ego, money , blindness, lack of knowledge, lack of widom… what??
But whatever it is, its hurting all of us sooo soo much but the worst part is that, there seems no end to these blunders since the tour selection committee or the team management is stuck on “men naa manuu”..
