Finally Umer Gul is going to get a very deserving chance. He is to play the trial matches startin from 29th August. Thats a good sign. I liked this guy when he played against India. He has some talent and hopefully after staying out a year and half he will still be able to perform. Good Luck to him.
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/aug2005-daily/23-08-2005/sports/khail1.htm
Re: Umer Gul to play trial matches.
I would love to see him being selected for the England tour of Pakistan and not just selected but also be able to make it to the Pak XI and I can bet this guy will make a big difference if he gets a chance to play against the English.
Re: Umer Gul to play trial matches.
Yep, he really puts his heart in the game like Naveed.
Re: Umer Gul to play trial matches.
Although we haven't seen much of him in the last couple of years but his performance at Lahore was memorable one. My only concern is the effect of his injury on his performance. Yes he is not a very quick bowler like waqar or shoaib therefore it is less likely to suffer from the effects of such injury. But still we need to see his level of fitness after recovering from stress fractures, whether he is able to sustain the effects of test cricket on consistent basis.
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Great!!! Now we have Akhtar, Rana, Gul, Shabbir (shouldn't play anymore with this horrible action though), Rao, Sami and Shahid Nazir ready to play and Yasir Ali, Mohammad Irshad, Najaf Shah, Mohammad Khalil etc waiting in the wings and that provides the selectors many different options for the PACE attack.
Gul is the one for FUTURE!!!!!
Re: Umer Gul to play trial matches.
he really need alot of work on his feilding, otherwise he fitz in:k:
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Yea his fielding really sucked. Wel so did of the rest of the players at that time ( now they have improved. ) Hopefully Wooly bhai will bring out the best of him
-Salman