From all currently available players and on the basis of current form or your like/dislike, name 11 players in the order you want them to be in the TEST team of Pakistan. You can use “or” in 2 positions only like:
Shabbir Ahmed or Danish Kaneria (depending on slow or fast wicket)
and thats pretty much it.
Here is a team that i want to file in at least next 10 test matches without any change.
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Yoyo or Younus may be
I know that Inzi is still one of the best batsman in the world, but I am heart broken of his injury. I dont think he will be able to play regularly in future for Pakistan. I dont believe in playing Part-timers just like Shoaib Akhter !
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Salman Butt
Yasir Hameed or Taufeeq Umer
Younus Khan
Yousuf Youhana
Inzimam
Asim Kamal
Shahid Afridi
Kamran Akmal
Shoaib Akhtar (Actor)
Umer Gul or Danish Kaneria
Shabbir Ahmed
I will still play Inzimam and Akhtar if they are available. I will not play Malik since he can't bowl anymore and his style of batting suites ODI rather than test. His bowling was a bonus which earned him space in tests. Besides I will never play Razzler in test, he is a uselsess bowler and we don't need lapaaros for batting. Rather six solid batsmen will be responsible for the batting supplement by Afridi and Keeper. Afridi is in my test team (what a shame for Pakistani cricket standard these days) because of his bowling. If the pitch is going to help fasties, atleast Afridi is there to fill the overs with restricted bowling, enough to stop run flow. Both Shabbir and Umer are a must to bowl with Shoaib. If Actor is injured then we can play Sami as he will have to deliver 110% to earn his place in the team.
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I think
1) Salman
2) Yasir
3) Younis
at these positions should be permanent.. Salman and Yasir make an excellent opening pair and i hope no one messes with these two at all.
4/5) YoYo / Inzi
6) Asim Kamal (somehow I feel this guy bats better down the order..?)
7) Akmal (specialist keeper is a must)
8) Akhtar
9) Kaneria
10) Shabir
11) Sami
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ok lemme repeat again
1.taufeeq umar (best opener)
2. salman (great batsman)
3. Yasir hameed (an ok player)
4. INZI (best )
5. YOYU (fighter at any stage)
6. asim kamal ( great chipko player)
7.shoaib malik (my fav)
8. kamran akmal (best keeper in paki)
9. muhammad sami (best bowler in team)
10 shabeer ahmed(great wicket taker)
11 shoaib akhtar (entertainer)
i know it has only four prof bowlers but yasir and taufeeq, and salman can bowl and they can be help at any stage
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Test XI
Taufeeq Umar
Salman Butt
Yasir Hameed or Younis Khan
Inzamam-ul-Haq (C)
Yousuf Youhana
Asim Kamal or Saeed Bin Nasir
Kamran Akmal (WK)
Saqlain Mushtaq or Umar Gul
Mohammad Sami
Shoaib Akhtar
Danish Kaneria or Shabbir Ahmed
In Test Cricket, only specialists please. The four reserves could be slotted in depending on the conditions of the pitch.
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YASIR HAMEED
SALMAN BUTT
INZIMAM UL HAQ (C)
YOUNIS KHAN
YOUSUF YOUHANA
ASIM KAMAL
KAMRAN AKMAL +
UMAR GULL
SHABBIR AHMAD
SHOAIB AKHTAR
DANISH KANERIA
I RECKON THIS IS THE BEST SIDE WE CAN PLAY, after gull and shabbir recover plus as inzi has been promised captaincy for a certain period, he shud not be sacked like this they can keep searching and change when his term expires after westindies series doesn't matter how bad team is affected, this is exactly the culture which is destroying pakistan ..............
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Pretty decent choice but we are one bowler short. Remeber Actor will only be good enough for some 4 over spells and he will most probably breakdown in the second innings.
Thus I would prefer a wicket keeper who is also a specialist batsman. This will give me the luxury to include a specialist spinner (Kaneria, most probably) and let go the #7 all rounder (which will otherwise be either Afridi, or Shoaib Malik). Unfortunately I don’t know of a specialist wicket keeper batsman. Any help… (Moin and Rashid are not to be considered).
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Looks like Kamran is gaining confidence in batting department too. hopefully he can get to the point where we can always expect 40-50 runs from him. This is all I expect from a Wicketkeeper other than Gilly !
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Alrighty, upto now 9 ppl have submitted and everyone has included top 4 players of this list into their team. Following are the number of time any players is selected in the teams (out of 9) with the selection percentage.
I'll update it..... looks like we want Shabbir back badly and so far results are also a set-back for Afridi Lovers :)
Salman Butt 9 100.00
Yousuf Youhana 9 100.00
Asim Kamal 9 100.00
Shabbir Ahmed 9 100.00
Yasir Hameed 8 88.89
Younus Khan 8 88.89
Inzimam U Haq 8 88.89
Kamran Akmal 8 88.89
Shoaib Akhter 8 88.89
Umer Gul 6 66.67
Danish Kaneria 6 66.67
Taufeeq Umer 5 55.56
Mohd. Sami 5 55.56
Shoaib Malik 3 33.33
Abdul Razzaq 2 22.22
Shahid Afridi 1 11.11
Saqlain Mushtaq 1 11.11
Saeed Bin Nasir 1 11.11
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Salman Butt
Yasir Hameed
Younis Khan
Inzamamul Haq
Yousuf Youhanna
Asim Kamal+
Shabbir Ahmed
Mohd Asif/Shoaib Malik
Umar Gul / Rana Naved
Danish Kaneria
Shoaib Akhtar
I have no idea why people want to go with 4 specialist bowlers in a test match with 6 batsmen and 1 wicketkeeper, esp when they have Shoaib Akhtar can bowl 4 overs after 20 overs (3-4 times a day at most). And people still like Mohammad Sami
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well Shoaib "still" has the firepower and a good bowler, his ONLY problem is that he breaks down very frequently. Mohammad Sami (bowling) is becoming worse than Shahid Afridi (batting), he looks more like an overworked horse who needs a big rest or bitch slapping.
