ROTFL 
zabardast.. ab hum ghareeeb awaammmm bhi cricket dekhay gi 
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**Heard on the news that teh team left without Razzaq and Naveed ul Hassan as they could not get back their passports from the British embassy in time where they had submitted them for visas to UK. PCB has stated that replacements will be sent if they cant get their passports within the next two days. *
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yep thats right. And today (tuesday) was the deadline PCB set for these two players. And if it doesnt materialize then i think Azhar Mahmood will get a call up. I certainly hope so.
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Please dont pin up ur hopes.I know most of them as I do play club cricket.Its not the very right team. I don't see them doing good at all .
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REALLY?
would you like to tell us about some of those players.
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Originally posted by ehsan: *
**Heard on the news that teh team left without Razzaq and Naveed ul Hassan as they could not get back their passports from the British embassy in time where they had submitted them for visas to UK. PCB has stated that replacements will be sent if they cant get their passports within the next two days. *
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Yeah..Even I heard it.But they said Younis Khan's name also.
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Yeah..Even I heard it.But they said Younis Khan's name also.
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nah younis khan is in UAE already!
aur agar aisa na hua to hum sab aap ko mil kar maraingay 
there was a pic of these guys training in sharjah in todays gulf new.....i think younis khan was one of them!
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Please dont pin up ur hopes.I know most of them as I do play club cricket.Its not the very right team. I don't see them doing good at all .
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I dont think players like Aamer Sohail and Rashid Latif would pick these people if they didnt have the potential.....it will take time for them to settle and i think they'll do just fine once they get some experience.....theyve done well playing for Pakistan A and have experienced playing aboroad in different conditions.
Azhar was dropped without a reason and Razzaq has been kept for taking just 1 wicket in the world cup , dropping Tendulkar's catch when he was on 32 and scoring so slowly.Welldone Mr.Amir Sohail .
Back on the road](http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/APR/164976_CI_02APR2003.html)
There has barely been time to take stock of the 52 matches and 42 days of the 2003 World Cup, but already the show is back on the road, as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Kenya converge on Sharjah for an eight-day quadrangular tournament.
There is $150,000 at stake in the Sharjah Cup, which begins with a match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe on Thursday, but more importantly for the three Test nations involved, there’s an early chance to bounce back from their World Cup disappointments. Kenya beat both Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe en route to the semi-finals, while Pakistan failed to qualify from the first round. As a result, several unproven players will be given their opportunities in the coming days.
For Pakistan and Zimbabwe in particular, the World Cup marked the end of an era, and Thursday’s teams will be almost unrecognisable from the teams that played out a soggy no-result at Bulawayo last month. Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have both been put out to pasture by the Pakistani selectors, and several senior players have been overlooked for the time being, including Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shoaib Akhtar. For Zimbabwe, Andy Flower’s retirement threatens to be an insurmountable loss, while Henry Olonga, Alistair Campbell and Guy Whittall have also played their final international matches.
Most of the attention, however, will be focused on Pakistan’s new management pairing of Rashid Latif and Javed Miandad. “I was planning to retire after the World Cup, but I’ve decided to put it on hold to help my country in the rebuilding process,” said Latif, who returns for his second captaincy stint. “It may not be easy to establish ourselves as a top team quickly. We need time to get the feel of international cricket, but with [coach] Javed Miandad, whom I consider one of the best brains in cricket, at the helm, Pakistan can look forward to regaining lost glory.”
Only two members of Pakistan’s squad, the seamer Umar Gul and batsman Mohammad Hafeez, are completely new to international cricket, but the remainder are raw, to say the least. “Most of the players are young and hence, we will try and work on improving the technical aspect of their game,” said Latif. “But one has to be patient. We are not expecting the team to perform miracles. If they win here in Sharjah, it will be a bonus. The idea is to build a team for the future.”
Sri Lanka, who open their campaign against Pakistan on Friday, are in a similar period of rebuilding. They have already decided not to renew Dav Whatmore’s contract as coach, although a reluctant Sanath Jayasuriya has been persuaded to continue as captain for the time being. They enter the tournament without Aravinda de Silva, who has joined the selection panel since his retirement, while the middle order is also revamped, after the World Cup failures of Russel Arnold and Mahela Jayawardene, who averaged a meagre three runs in six innings.
For Kenya, however, everything is sweetness and light after their astonishing World Cup run, and further victories in the coming week are very much on the cards for a group of players whose team spirit is unquenchable. They have, however, lost the services of their coach, Sandeep Patil, who has returned to India, but another former Indian star, Abid Ali, has been drafted in for the duration of the tournament. Abid Ali, who is currently the coach of the United Arab Emirates, was persuaded to step in by the tournament organisers.
Kenya look to build on bold World Cup show](http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/APR/164949_REUTERS_02APR2003.html)
Surprise semi-finalists Kenya can show their World Cup run was no flash in the pan in the four-nation Sharjah Cup which gets under way on Thursday.
The Kenyans are still on a high after their stunning progress to the last four in southern Africa, but Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be hoping to block out recent criticism as they try to win the first post-Cup tournament with new-look sides.
The other team in the event is Sri Lanka.
“The tournament provides us with an ideal opportunity to find right combinations after the exit of senior players,” Zimbabwe skipper Heath Streak, whose side play Pakistan in the opening match, told Reuters.
“I know it’s not easy to find replacements overnight for players like Andy Flower, Guy Whittall and Henry Olonga, who have retired after the World Cup, but the young players will have some incentives to cement their places in the team.”
Media manager Lovemore Banda said. “Besides the youngsters in the team, the tournament offers Grant Flower a chance to come out and be the player that he is.”
Pakistan, in particular, have a point to prove.
World Cup champions in 1992 and runners-up in 1999, the team were slated by their country’s press after they failed to progress beyond the first stage of this year’s event.
The dismal performance led to wholesale changes in the squad as eight leading players, including captain Waqar Younis and fast bowler Wasim Akram, were axed.
Wicketkeeper Rashid Latif, given the task of building a match-winning team, said: “Ours is a new-look side, but most of the players have played international cricket so we won’t be short on experience.”
Zimbabwe, a last-minute replacement for South Africa who pulled out because of the Iraqi conflict, were not unduly concerned about the security.
“We have played here before many times and know the place is pretty safe,” Streak said.
Although Kenya became the first non-test playing nation to reach the last four of the World Cup, the country also finds itself in a re-building process after coach Sandeep Patil decided to return home to India.
Abid Ali, who hails from the UAE, has taken temporary charge, admitting: “I hardly know any Kenyan player, but I hope the team continue playing with same rich vein of form they produced during the World Cup.”
New penalties for slow over rates are in force during the eight-day tournament.
Sri Lanka hit by fast bowling injury crisis](http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/APR/165272_SL_03APR2003.html)
World Cup star Chaminda Vaas will miss Sri Lanka’s crucial first Sharjah Cup match against Pakistan on Friday.
Vaas, who took a record 23 wickets at 14.39 during the World Cup, has injured his right landing ankle in practice.
There is also a serious concern over the fitness of his new ball partner, Dilhara Fernando, who was unable to train on Thursday because of a sore back.
“Chaminda (Vaas) is out and Dilhara was unable to bowl this morning,” said team manager Ajit Jayasekera.
The management hopes that Vaas will recover in time for Sunday’s revenge match against Kenya. There is an outside chance that Fernando could still play although there is already concern that it is a recurrence of an old stress fracture.
“He is being treated by the physio now and we will just have to see how that goes before we select the side tonight,” said Jayasekera
With the selectors having axed Pulasthi Gunaratne, their fifth seamer, Sri Lanka are now left with only the inexperienced Buddhika Fernando and Prabath Nissanka as back-up.
hehe I was right this time. :nahnah:
Now you can call others week. 