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Ab. Razzaq is now past his prime. He has given all he could to the game - now its time to throw in the towl anyway. He was an important asset to Pakistan but now its better he makes room for younger blood.
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He was one of my favourite as a pakistani player.
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it was painful at times watching him bowl.
no pace whatsoever.
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He consistently hit over 130 kp/h, he's faster than most bowlers in other teams--just because his pace has dropped from before doesn't mean he's got no pace whatsoever.
Mind you, he played badly in SAF this year...but last year he was Pakistan's highest or 2nd highest wicket taker and he scored runs consistently. What more do you want? One poor series in SAF has wrecked the poor guy's career.
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Good riddance. This is the exact reason why his attitude leaves alot to be desired. Abdul Razzaq has turned into a national shame. Instead of accepting his own faults for the lack of any kind of performances and refusing to play on Pakistan's domestic circuit, he has sent a signal that it is a worthless cause to earn one's place through pure merit and not chamcha-geeri; that actually earning a rank in domestic cricket means literally nothing and that playing for Pakistan below the National level is a lost cause. This decision of his was likely based on the advice given by Inzamam. He is too passive to make any kind of decision himself.
Check the so-called declined all-rounder's records from 2004 to 2006--his batting's improved by miles and his bowling, while worse than before, is more than acceptable. Just because he doesn't go showcasing himself like other players and does his work quietly doesn't make him "passive".
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People like you are the kind who go back players for 95% of a successful career--as soon as they hit a bad spot you drop them altogether. Just see: if Shoaib Malik, a great all-rounder by any standards, plays badly in this home series vs SAF, people will be clamoring for his head.
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QUOTE: The idiot should go and look at his performence in ANY form of cricket over the last 2 years and he'll get the answer.
Please shut up and check the facts of the last 2 years will you? 1 bad series vs SAF and you're at his throat.
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QUOTE: The idiot should go and look at his performence in ANY form of cricket over the last 2 years and he'll get the answer.
Please shut up and check the facts of the last 2 years will you? 1 bad series vs SAF and you're at his throat.
maybe you should shut up. Compare his stats for the last 2 years and his career stats and then you will know...go read the facts you ignorent loser and then argue with me
The last time Razzy scored a half century was on 13th feb. 2006. In the whole 2005/2006 season his bowling average was almost 52, compared to his career average of almost 32...and you're telling me he was in a good form? You must be blind or really really stupid...and i believe its the latter.
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it was painful at times watching him bowl.
no pace whatsoever.
It was painful for the batsmen too. Lot of them chose to go back to pavallion just because they were BBW (Bored Behind the Wicket)
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Pathetic.
Anyone who's defending this childish behaviour needs to take a look at themselves in the mirror.
Winners are people who bounce back better than ever from hardships and disappointments.
Losers quit.
Razzaq is quite clearly a loser.
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Pathetic.
Anyone who's defending this childish behaviour needs to take a look at themselves in the mirror.
Winners are people who bounce back better than ever from hardships and disappointments.
Losers quit.
Razzaq is quite clearly a loser.
Loser? Listen to the kettle calling the pot black! WOW people like you are ungrateful shortsighted losers. Think of all the times he's saved Pakistan (and I'm not just talking about big-hitting, either, look at all his performances, the times when you in your mother's lap would have been cheering him on, his smart level-headed batting in run chases, his prying out the needed wickets, his hard hitting in the death overs as well as his sensible grafting in the initial overs--and slap yourself in the face to wake up and give the guy the credit he deserves.
Think of it like this: after 2 years after struggling with the ball and doing as well as you can with the bat from your position down the order, you are just beginning to revive your bowling.
1) You save Pakistan in a crucial Test vs India at Karachi, where you score a priceless 45 to rescue them from 39-6 and lay the platform, along with some excellent bowling and a 90 in the second innings.
2) You then have a par ODI series, where the highlight is your 64 in a massive partnership with Shoaib Malik to take Pakistan from a bad position to 288 at Lahore. During this knock you also cross 4000 runs in ODIs.
3) You are then awarded man of the series on difficult pitches in Sri Lanka, where you bowl consistently and economically, taking wickets, and perform well with the bat in every match while almost all the batsmen on both sides, even the specialists, are struggling.
4) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are calling for your dismissal from the team.
5) It's then off north to Scotland and England. Against Scotland, you bowl poorly but when idiots like Shahid Afridi throw away their wickets at bad times, you take the reins with an unbeaten 49 to help Pakistan cross the finish line. It's a clever knock--only at the end do you open your shoulders to blast some boundaries, making sure that Pakistan's pride is preserved.
6) You play consistently in the England Tests, particularly at the Lord's Test. Here you are the most incisive of the bowlers, and you make a cool-headed 25 no off 91 balls to draw the match and ensure Pakistan don't lose.
7) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are jabbering that you shouldn't play.
8) You bowl consistently in the England ODIs. The highlight of your performance, however, is at Nottingham, where you save Pakistan from 138-7, grafting out for most of the innings and then blasting 36 runs in the last 10 balls to take Pak to a once-unthinkable 235.
9) You bowl well at Edgbaston too, taking 2 wickets at key intervals. Astonishingly, though, you are taken off the bowling and England scrape through.
10) You take 4-50 at Jaipur in the ICC Champions Trophy, and hit 38 off just 24 balls in tandem with Shoaib Malik to ensure victory in the face of controversy about your more glamorous but less useful teammate Shoaib Akhtar.
11) Conveniently, people start remembering how many times you've helped Pakistan in the past. Don't be too hopeful, though--people like yaasir tend to forget pretty quickly. Even when the whole team is playing badly, you are often criticized for not continuing your consistent performances.
12) You play mediocrely against the West Indies--although most of the team are playing badly, you alone are singled out by the venomous pen of Osman Samiuddin.
13) You captain 1 ODI vs the West Indies. Personally you bat well, making 33, but Pakistan unfortunately lose. Again you are bashed by those too stupid to realize that it's your first match as captain.
14) After being injured for the SAF tests, you play perhaps the worst ODI series of your life. It's just 1 bad series--all cricketers have them--but again, people start attacking you
15) After missing the World Cup because of injury, you play an average series at Abu Dhabi. You bowl decently enough, even completing a direct-hit runout, but your single innings is unsatisfying and you are not even called to bowl in the 2nd match.
16) Satisfied, Osman Samiuddin takes up his pen and calls it a "lackluster" performance
You've played 7 years of brilliant cricket for Pakistan. 1 bad season and you're taken off.
Even when you play well, people tend not to give you full credit. They compare your quiet laidback nature to Shahid Afridi's bragging nature and decide to call you undedicated and spiritless, COMPLETELY forgetting your brilliant performances.
And you wonder why Abdul Razzaq is angry?
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^ 
Okay Razzaq was, is, and will be the greatest cricketer who ever played for Pakistan 
and why do I get a feeling this is Razzaq himself hiding behind this 1137moiz nick..
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1137 Moiz mian, I don't think anyone does not give credit to Razzaq for what he has provided to Pakistan, actually he was far more capable of that but that does not mean that you keep a player in team for his past glories. Razzaq dropped from Twenty20 was mistake in my opinion but his quitting was bigger mistake. Even Inzamamul Haq had to prove his worthiness post WC 2003, imagine a player of his calibre had to earn his spot and here you are talking about Razzaq as automatic team member for ever?
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Loser? Listen to the kettle calling the pot black! WOW people like you are ungrateful shortsighted losers. Think of all the times he's saved Pakistan (and I'm not just talking about big-hitting, either, look at all his performances, the times when you in your mother's lap would have been cheering him on, his smart level-headed batting in run chases, his prying out the needed wickets, his hard hitting in the death overs as well as his sensible grafting in the initial overs--and slap yourself in the face to wake up and give the guy the credit he deserves. Think of it like this: after 2 years after struggling with the ball and doing as well as you can with the bat from your position down the order, you are just beginning to revive your bowling.
1) You save Pakistan in a crucial Test vs India at Karachi, where you score a priceless 45 to rescue them from 39-6 and lay the platform, along with some excellent bowling and a 90 in the second innings.
2) You then have a par ODI series, where the highlight is your 64 in a massive partnership with Shoaib Malik to take Pakistan from a bad position to 288 at Lahore. During this knock you also cross 4000 runs in ODIs.
3) You are then awarded man of the series on difficult pitches in Sri Lanka, where you bowl consistently and economically, taking wickets, and perform well with the bat in every match while almost all the batsmen on both sides, even the specialists, are struggling.
4) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are calling for your dismissal from the team.
5) It's then off north to Scotland and England. Against Scotland, you bowl poorly but when idiots like Shahid Afridi throw away their wickets at bad times, you take the reins with an unbeaten 49 to help Pakistan cross the finish line. It's a clever knock--only at the end do you open your shoulders to blast some boundaries, making sure that Pakistan's pride is preserved.
6) You play consistently in the England Tests, particularly at the Lord's Test. Here you are the most incisive of the bowlers, and you make a cool-headed 25 no off 91 balls to draw the match and ensure Pakistan don't lose.
7) Meanwhile, idiots like yaasir are jabbering that you shouldn't play.
8) You bowl consistently in the England ODIs. The highlight of your performance, however, is at Nottingham, where you save Pakistan from 138-7, grafting out for most of the innings and then blasting 36 runs in the last 10 balls to take Pak to a once-unthinkable 235.
9) You bowl well at Edgbaston too, taking 2 wickets at key intervals. Astonishingly, though, you are taken off the bowling and England scrape through.
10) You take 4-50 at Jaipur in the ICC Champions Trophy, and hit 38 off just 24 balls in tandem with Shoaib Malik to ensure victory in the face of controversy about your more glamorous but less useful teammate Shoaib Akhtar.
11) Conveniently, people start remembering how many times you've helped Pakistan in the past. Don't be too hopeful, though--people like yaasir tend to forget pretty quickly. Even when the whole team is playing badly, you are often criticized for not continuing your consistent performances.
12) You play mediocrely against the West Indies--although most of the team are playing badly, you alone are singled out by the venomous pen of Osman Samiuddin.
13) You captain 1 ODI vs the West Indies. Personally you bat well, making 33, but Pakistan unfortunately lose. Again you are bashed by those too stupid to realize that it's your first match as captain.
14) After being injured for the SAF tests, you play perhaps the worst ODI series of your life. It's just 1 bad series--all cricketers have them--but again, people start attacking you
15) After missing the World Cup because of injury, you play an average series at Abu Dhabi. You bowl decently enough, even completing a direct-hit runout, but your single innings is unsatisfying and you are not even called to bowl in the 2nd match.
16) Satisfied, Osman Samiuddin takes up his pen and calls it a "lackluster" performance
You've played 7 years of brilliant cricket for Pakistan. 1 bad season and you're taken off. Even when you play well, people tend not to give you full credit. They compare your quiet laidback nature to Shahid Afridi's bragging nature and decide to call you undedicated and spiritless, COMPLETELY forgetting your brilliant performances.
And you wonder why Abdul Razzaq is angry?
are you Razzaq?
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Great cricketer Razzaq, but highly underrated
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lol. OK maybe I got a bit heated..but seriously…every time Razzaq comes up with a good performance he starts getting criticized, especially by Mr Samiuddin whose articles everyone has read. If you want to drop everyone who’s been out of form in the last year, the only players left in our team would be Yousuf, Malik, Gul, and Asif
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Mr Abdul Razaq is now an offical "tabsara neegaar" with Daily Express, where he comments on Pak teams day to day performance on page 6 :)
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lol. OK maybe I got a bit heated..but seriously...every time Razzaq comes up with a good performance he starts getting criticized, especially by Mr Samiuddin whose articles everyone has read. If you want to drop everyone who's been out of form in the last year, the only players left in our team would be Yousuf, Malik, Gul, and Asif
Really? Like when?
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Really? Like when?
A few examples:
2004: Abdul Razzaq scores a matchwinning 53 not out as well as taking 2 for 44, Osman Samiuddin writes this bizarre article criticizing him, plus has the nerve to blame him for Pakistan's loss vs New Zealand where Razzaq was easily the best player with 50 no off 26 and 89 off 40, I can't show the URL but it's called: "Razzaq the occasional all-rounder"
btw in the same year Razzaq was the only Pakistan cricketer to be nominated for ODI Player of the Year.
2005: Abdul Razzaq's 71, along with Akmal, saves the Mohali Test, at least people acknowledge that but no, Mr Samiuddin has to have a critical word yet again: Razzaq conquers his demons, Cricinfo
2006: 3rd ODI vs India at Lahore: Malik (108 off 120) and Razzaq (64 no off 56) take Pakistan from 158-6 to an imposing 288. Mr Samiuddin, writing the Wisden Cricketer article for this, doesn't even mention Razzaq's contribution
2006: Abdul Razzaq, already being the ODI man of the series, takes 4 for 20 in the Sri Lanka Test while Asif takes five wickets; Mr. Samiuddin in the match report has the raw nerve to call him a "pie-trundling clown"--what the hell is this man doing as Pakistan's correspondent?
2006: The genius Inzamam ul Haq seals a low-scoring match vs Windies with 42 no off 86. His partnership with Abdul Razzaq (17 off 37) starts Pakistan's fightback. This time it's Anand Vasu, unaware that there is such a thing as defence, takes the liberty to assume that Razzaq was "bogged down" and needed the importance of defending constantly stressed to him by Inzamam: watch any clip of the match and you'll see this was not the case
And btw, it appears we need foreigners to tell us how good our cricketers are: a New Zealander, Lynn McConnell, wrote an article called "Razzaq was one of a kind" while Pakistan fans are abusing him
First Inzamam and then Razzaq. Tsk. At least we still have Yousuf, though with the PCB and fans like some of the people here, 1 pair might just have him kicked out of the team.