Re: Shoaib Akhtar's future
Why do we always do like that? Whenever we are doing well we tend the forget everything, all the negatives associated with the team or the management or selectors. Mashallah we are doing very well right now but don't forget that what big part our batting has played in the current performance, which hasn't been Pakistan strength tradionally. We also need a strong bowling department. You might have to think that we got away due to the good batting conditions on the current tour. Yes I admit that Rana has been awesone, sami has also performed well but in patches, spinners played a good part in test series. But we have to have a match winner strike bowler like shoiab in the team. OK I admit that by keeping him out the tour, selectors have given him a good lesson, but if they decide to keep him out of the future tours as well, what will they try to prove??? That we are so pathetic when it comes to management that we cant control a person when he is in the side, so although he is a match winner but we are keeping him out of the side. Do you think that shoaib is the only spoiled brat in the cricketing world, not there would be many, but there are ways to control them which doesn't include keeping them out of the team for the rest of their career. We have an example of Australia, where Shane Warne has been involved in controversies and scandals, but ACB never kept him out of the side, becasue they know that he is a match winner. Shoiab is not a super fit player, he is 30 years old, he doesn't have much cricket left in him, so I hope that PCB will try to cash him as much as possible in the future tours to come.