Five changes to the Test squad. Danish Kaneria, Shahid Nazir, Faisal Iqbal and Asim Kamal are definitely coming back, while it appears that patience has run out with Imran Farhat as well, or as according to this report, Kamran Akmal might be coming back from South Africa. Wasim Bari has brought back Abdul Razzaq, Shabbir Ahmed and Abdur Rehman as expected, but the recall of Shahid Afridi is a positive step and hopefully it will pay dividends. What I find intriguing, is the selection of Imran Nazir to the squad.
For the last four months, Pakistan has been remarkably patient with the opening combination of Imran Farhat and Mohammad Hafeez, albeit with limited success in South Africa. Given this situation, one would have thought that there might be thought to either returning to Salman Butt, who has been performing well in domestic cricket, or perhaps going a different route altogether. Imran Nazir has been burning up domestic cricket for the past few seasons, scoring at around 45 a click, and I have no beef with him. It would have been interesting to see Fawad Alam being given a shot, specially given his performances this past while. Well, I hope Imran Nazir does well, we need a young batsman to finally come through.
Probable XI (or Ahmer's XI!): Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir or Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Rana Naved, Mohammad Asif, Abdur Rehman
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For the last four months, Pakistan has been remarkably patient with the opening combination of Imran Farhat and Mohammad Hafeez, albeit with limited success in South Africa. Given this situation, one would have thought that there might be thought to either returning to Salman Butt, who has been performing well in domestic cricket, or perhaps going a different route altogether. Imran Nazir has been burning up domestic cricket for the past few seasons, scoring at around 45 a click, and I have no beef with him. It would have been interesting to see Fawad Alam being given a shot, specially given his performances this past while. Well, I hope Imran Nazir does well, we need a young batsman to finally come through.
Probable XI (or Ahmer's XI!): Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir or Shoaib Malik, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Rana Naved, Mohammad Asif, Abdur Rehman
Technorati Tags: pakistan, cricket, imran nazir, fawad alam, shahid afridi, salman butt
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