Pakistan's Future Captain

It is time for PCB to think about young Captain as part of future plan. Although Shahid Afridi is doing well on the field, but the nomination of Misbah as Vice captain is questionable because his career is on the end due to age factor and future planning requires young names.

At the moment, two players who can be consider as next captain, one is Muhammad Hafeez and other is  Asad Shafiq. Both are young, talented and matching wining players and they have proved themselves on many occasion.

1^st choice

Muhammad Hafeez is opening batsman and good off spin bowler, Hafeez was the one who was picked by Pakistan’s selectors during revival process in 2003.  Although he is known as professor in dressing room because of his good match analysis in the dressing room, but on the field having all the capability he is not succeeded according to his reputation. He has every shot on his inventory but it has observed that most of the time he got out after 30s in crucial matches. The only weakness in his bating is his lack of concentration for long time. If he succeeded to control his nerves on crucial times he can really became match winner player as well as successful captain.  So his nomination as captain well be a good idea as future planning.

2n Choice

Although Asad Shafiq is young and these are starting days of his career, but the maturity he shown on the field during batting indicated that he has the ability to bear responsibility of  captaincy.  He is the one who knows the value of his wicket and has never thrown his wicket by his own mistakes. He likes to play according to his reputation and knows the art of staying on the field. So, nomination of Asad Shafiq as vice captain can help Pakistan in future.

Written By:  Farid Khan (Cricket Analyst)

An Analysis of Pakistan’s Squad for World Cup 2011

All over the world managements like to form the team in following way: -

1.         4 pure Specialist Batsmen (2 Openers and 2 Middle Order batsman)

2.         1 Wicketkeeper Batsman

3.         1 Bating All-rounder

4.         1 Bowling All-rounder

5.         4 Specialist Bowlers

Following is Pakistan Team for World cup 2011:-

1.         Ahmed Shehzad. Pure Opening Batsman.

2.         Kamran Akmal. He is Wicketkeeper Batsman, good in opening also.

3.         Younis Khan good in Middle Order.

4.         Misbah. Good in middle order.

5.         Umer Akmal. Good in Middle Order but inexperience.

6.         Asad Shafiq. Good in Middle Order, but still inexperience

7.         Muhammad Hafeez. He is good Opening Batsman. One can consider him as Bowling All-rounder also. 

8.        Shahid Afridi. Actual he is Bowling All-rounder, as he was inducted into team as leg spin bowler on start of his career.

9.         Abdul Razaq. Also Bowling All-rounder.

10.       Shoaib Aktar Fast Bowler

11.       Umer Gul. Fast Bowler

12.       Wahab Riaz. Fast Bowler.

13.       Sohail Tanveer. Medium Fast Bowler.

14.       Saeed Ajmal. Off Spin Bowlser.

15.       Abdul Rehman. Leg Spin Bowler.

The team one can consider to play:-

Kamran Akmal, Ahmed Shezad/Muhammad Hafiz, Younas Khan, Misbah Ul Haq, Umer Akmil, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Umer Gul, Sohail Tanveer, Saeed Ajmal.

Although Pakistan is short of experience openers, but still the above team is looking good. If the players apply themselves and concentrate only on cricket no reason that we can perform well in all matches.

Defeat of Pakistan in T20 - Poor Selection

Combination of Pakistan Cricket team played T20 Match at UA on 26^th October was not pragmatic. Its look like Pakistan is going back instead of planning for future.  It is questionable that what type of talent Imran Farhat has, when he failed in test then selector give him chance in T20. He is a worst fielder and Pakistan has loss several matches because of his dropped catches. He  has  never perform extra ordinary. So many chances have been given to him but he failed to avail these chances. Then what are the criteria for selecting him. When Hafeez was there what was need to open from Imran Farhat. The worst thing in this match for Pakistan was the breaking of combination of young players which was formed after very bad situation in England. A young talented player Asad Shafiq was not playing.  Fawad Alam was not playing. Despite Misbah score 27 runs, but a young talented player instead of Misbah will be good choice for Pakistan keeping in mind planning for future. Asad Shafiq is looking good talented player than Imran Farhat. Former Cricketer Ilyas is support for Imran Farhat as he is Father in Law of Imran Farhat, but how much Mr. Ilyas will support him. Will he think for Pakistan also. The is a question mark for all supporters of undeserving players.