Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
Dhobi Bhai,
Quoted you above if you don’t mind:
Thanks for correcting me that Gul is injured for the time being. I guess I read somewhere that he was doing ok now but may be I was mistaken. Anyhow, even without Gul, we have good fast or fast medium attack and batting doesn’t look either. Hopefully, fielding would make a 180 degrees turn towards stopping the ball, diving and holding to the ball rather than “juggling.”…
I haven’t seen Faisal Iqbal in the ODI circuit but I watched the highlights of a recent 20/20 match and he looks pretty good for ODIs as well. Taking his performance in Karachi against India and his recent good nick in the 20/20 format, I agree with you 100%.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
Umer Bhai, I think you are mixing yourself with the pacer Umar Gul. The latter is unfit for the time being. On the other hand, me thinks you are in perfectly good shape. :D
I saw a few Twenty20 games stats where Umar Gul was listed as one of bowlers, so not really sure if he was physically unfit to play in games against India or mentally (psychologically) :D
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
I saw Sarfarz Ahmed of Sialkot Stallions in the 20/20 match Ok he is a left seamer but I dont like what I saw, if he has a nag of taking wickets then good. but I dont see him making the final cut.
What Umer579 bhai said sounds pretty good, I also saw M. Irshad well his action is more of cross b/w Shoaib Akther’s action and M. Asif, but he has a very long run up doesnt suit his speed.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
Are there any other domestic individuals that we might take a look upon, in the near future, for a possible inclusion?
How about Mohammad Sami and Arshad Khan? Can these two top-class International cricketers make the cut in the team on consistent basis, displaying mind-boggling performances on each ocassion?
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
Ofcourse we have ( I hope) Tahir Khan can replace Arshad Khan, you might have seem him in Khi Zebra’s team, and as for M. Sami I will just sussh! warna what I say will be edited
Well having M. Asif, Rana Naveed, Razzaq, Umer Gul and M. Irshad and then the 3 youngsters from U-19 team Anwar Ali has already joined KHI team, all of them are invitied to the camp, I hope Jamshed is taken into team, lets see.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
I wish Dhobi bhai that Sami and Arshad taya can perform consistently but the results don't support that. Anyhow, I am really glad that the 3 young lads from the Under 19 team have been called for the conditioning camp in Lhr and what a way to get them trained under the eyes of the senior players. It can't get better than this.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
Hafeez? He has been tried umpteen times, just like Imran Farhat... just like they say about chucker, but "once a failure, always a failure" :D . Farhat and Hafeez might be blasting bowlers in domestic, but they are bheegi billi for International cricket.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chan
Kaneria seeks big role in ODIs too
By our correspondent
KARACHI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Danish Kaneria believes he is a more confident and better One-day International (ODI) player after his performances in the Patron’s Cup and the Twenty20 Cup.
The young leggie took a remarkable 5 for 21 to guide Habib Bank to victory over Customs in the low-scoring Patron’s Cup final late last month. He also bowled well in the Twenty20 Cup for the Karachi Zebras despite the game being heavily loaded in favour of batsmen.
Kaneria said after he was left out of the team for the one-dayers against India he was very disappointed. “I think with my performances in the Patron’s Cup and Twenty20 I’ve made a point that I can prove useful in this type of cricket,” he stated.
Kaneria said he was desperate to be in the squad for next year’s World Cup. “All I can do is play hard and prove the point I can do well in one-day cricket. I think I’ve done that in the Patron’s Cup,” he said.
“It was important for me to prove that I’m as good in one-day cricket as I’m in Tests. People criticise my fielding but although I’m not the fastest I’ve taken two or three remarkable catches and made a couple of run outs as well.”
Kaneria added there was room for a wicket-taking bowler in one-dayers and he was looking forward to playing in the ODIs in Sri Lanka.
Kaneria said in an effort to be effective in one-day cricket, he had made it a point to try to contain the batsmen more and back his ability to take wickets with his spin. “But I’ve tried to keep things a little tighter,” he said.
“Although I’m not the fastest I’ve taken two or three remarkable catches and made a couple of run outs as well.”
I suppose that would conveniently make up for hundreds of those juicy boundaries that he helped pass through the fences on a consistent basis as a mid-off fielder.
“But I’ve tried to keep things a little tighter,” he said.
Surely the first criteria in Italics above came to his mind then, I’d think?
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
^^ Yes I agree with ND there are two spinners; Tahir Khan ( I hope he gets selected) and another is a left arm spinner Abdur Rauf he has the edge coz Woolmer likes him and incase we are wondering who is he, he plays for Sailkot Stallions.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
the idea is to see their domestic performance and then how they played in A team and U-19 and give them a chance, not 20/20, that’s just pure entertainment:balley:
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I'd agree with acrobi that we need some specialist spinner. If you ask me, a spinner who took 5 wickets in the 20/20 match doesn't show the whole picture bcz. firstly they are playing only at domestic level and secondly, 20/20 is a mere fun thing rather than actual fighting arena of an international game.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chan
‘Super-sub’ rule not to be used in Pak-SL series
By our correspondent
KARACHI: The Pakistan and Sri Lankan cricket boards have reached an agreement not to use the Super-sub rule during their upcoming three-match one-day series from March 17.
The two countries play their games on the 17th, 19th and 21st of March in Colombo and have agreed that the Super-sub rule will feature in none of these matches. The bilateral decision has been made after a recommendation made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executives last month in Dubai that the trial of the ‘super-sub’ playing condition should be discontinued.
However, the decision will only be implemented after the recommendation goes to the Executive Board of the ICC for ratification later this month. “Pakistan and Sri Lanka believe that as the Super-sub experimental rule is going to be discontinued from later this month, there is no purpose using it in the coming series. Many other countries have also taken such bilateral decisions in their matches,” an official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said.
ICC’s General Manager Cricket David Richardson said that the playing condition (super-sub) had not achieved what it set out to deliver. “The intention of Sunil Gavaskar and the panel of former players on the ICC Cricket Committee, which recommended the trial of this playing condition, was to encourage teams to make greater use of all-rounders in the ODI game,” he said.
“In practice, teams have elected to nominate a specialist player as the substitute and this is placing undue importance on winning the toss,” added Richardson. “There is no desire to create a situation where 12 players are used to do the job of 11 so we did not support the alternate view of allowing substitutes to be nominated after the toss. The proposal that the playing condition should be discontinued has been endorsed by the CEC and will now go to the Board for ratification,” he said.
If the Board accepts this recommendation, the ‘super-sub’ playing condition will no longer apply to series that start after 21 March 2006. A PCB source said the Pakistan and Sri Lankan boards had also reached understanding on substitute fielders and appealing for close catches.
Re: Sri Lankan tour hits its first wave (Mohammad Irshad standing in a very good chance)
i’ve seen him bowling n the comentators said that he clearly bends his arm,now the pcb hav no arrangement for these type of bowlers and as a result their bowling action is questioned at the international level.
fawad alam is another gud option he plays for karachi dolphins n is a very handy batsman too.
and then there is mansoor amjad,who has played u-19 n is 1 of the main players in the A team for more than a yr,plays for sialkot n bats well too
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( I hope) Tahir Khan can replace Arshad Khan, you might have seem him in Khi Zebra’s team, and as for M. Sami 
I will just sussh! warna what I say will be edited 