10-14-2003, 11:57 PM
Hi amam
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana" id=quote>quote<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>For test match I don't think Pakistani team can get out any of the SA batsman. It was proved in the last One day match that if South Africans are not under pressure to maintain a healthy runrate then it is really difficult to get any one of them out.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana" size=2 id=quote>
This is exactly why i am suggesting that Saqlain alongwith Mushtaq should be brought in. SA do seem to have problems with quality spin, and i believe that Saqlain still has some years of cricket left in him. A bad patch comes on every player in his career. Does anybody remember the way how out of form Inzimam was only a month back and now he is again the mainstay of our batting. Saqlain too will eventually come out of his bad patch.
I dont like the idea of Razzaq opening the batting. I know that he would do much better than hafeez, but then that would be only a adhoc solution to a much deeper problem. Razzaq's place is in the late-middle order and thats where he should stay. They should go with Taufeeq Umar in the tests and Imran Nazeer in the ODIs.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana" id=quote>quote<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>For test match I don't think Pakistani team can get out any of the SA batsman. It was proved in the last One day match that if South Africans are not under pressure to maintain a healthy runrate then it is really difficult to get any one of them out.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana" size=2 id=quote>
This is exactly why i am suggesting that Saqlain alongwith Mushtaq should be brought in. SA do seem to have problems with quality spin, and i believe that Saqlain still has some years of cricket left in him. A bad patch comes on every player in his career. Does anybody remember the way how out of form Inzimam was only a month back and now he is again the mainstay of our batting. Saqlain too will eventually come out of his bad patch.
I dont like the idea of Razzaq opening the batting. I know that he would do much better than hafeez, but then that would be only a adhoc solution to a much deeper problem. Razzaq's place is in the late-middle order and thats where he should stay. They should go with Taufeeq Umar in the tests and Imran Nazeer in the ODIs.
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Arrrgh... it sure's gonna be mighty rough sailin' today ... mates!
