For what purpose these official get money.Just to include Shoaib,Wasim and those who have strong source like completely failing M.Wasim.
What they learned from side-matches dat spinners are successful but they don’t included a single.May be they have been pressurized by the authorities to include Shoaib.
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Saqulain should be in the next match. while shoaib should for life.
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Its easy to preach wisdom after the event.
if they had asked me before i would have told them n i was amazed before da test dat there were no spinners in da squad.
Oh !! Chilli
U r really chilli.
NE way it is not the same as u have written it. If shoaib had taken 5 wickets in the match I still would be of the opinion to remove him unless his mind is clear.
They r playing cricket not sladging.
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U will see a star near it
It's very smart logic to play at LEAST one spinner (for backup reasons even if it was a pace track).
Oh my goodness... your in England, you have to play one spinner.
Trust me even if the track was fit for Shoaib, Saqlain or any other worldclass spinner like Warne, Murali would have done better.
I'm 100% sure 4 of the pace bowlers would have done the job instead of the 5th with the help of one spinner.
only team which did not bother to take spinners was windies in early 80s. if u have marshall, garner, ambrose, holding and likes, u dont need a spinner.
but given that no test team has such formidable pace combionation, it does not make sense to have no spinner.
i think too much one-day cricket has cost spinners. captains tend to have a mediocre pace bowler in team rather than a good spinner since spinner could be expensive. and then spinners get try being 'economic' and become mediocre.
now take example of india's choice of team for zimbabwe. even most patriotic indian will not claim that india has a great overflowing talent in pace bowling. but they are taking only two spinners on the tour.
saqlain not getting place in team is ridiculous. treat razzak as a batsman. he is not a test bowler and keep saqlain.
There was no guarantee that Saqlain would have been among the wickets if he had played. Waqar is quoted as saying that he did not think that the exclusion of Saqlain was a mistake because it was not a spinning track.And I think he is right.
If only the over-rated Paki pacemen had bowled as well as Caddick/Gough things might have been different for Pakistan.
Chilli is right and so is Waqar that Saqlain was not necessary for the test. Arguments could be made in the favour of this logic that the wicket was not for spinners, even than it would have been better to have Saqlain, given her kind.
The first major problem, however, remains that we bowled like schoolboys and the result is only what we deserved. The strategy to browbeat English batsmen came totally unstuck. It would have been more logical had we bowled like Azhar - just following line and lenght, he was among wickets.
But I guess it's a point for senior bowlers to curse themselves not leaving it upon others for it could turn out to be more worst for them. It is obviously a whole hell of shame for Waqar and Wasim, especially Waqar. Wasim did show some pace, movement as well as control over line and lenght, but our captain looked as if he had the cricket ball very first time in his hands. It's disgusting. There is everything to term the whole lot as "hopeless duffers!"