Analysis of the Pakistan 2010 Twenty20 Team

[rangbaaz]

Current form of Sami is incredible. We all saw the way he bowled during Pak-Aus series. Come on, give the guy credit where he deserves. Don't look at the past record, look at the current form of the player.

 

[SSGPA1]

Here is my team from T20 squad:

1. Shahzaib Hassan
2. Kamran Akmal
3. Mohammed Hafeez
4. Fawad Alam
5. Umar Akmal
6. Shahid Afridi
7. Abdul Razzaq
8. Saeed Ajmal
9. Mohammed Aamer
10. Mohammed Irfan
11. Asif

This team gives us 3 genuine fast bowlers and 2 genuine spinners plus part time bowlers in Fawad, Razzaq and Hafeez.

 

[BATMAN]

Shoaib Malik, Imran Nazir, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir should have been part of the team. They are the best out there for any form of cricket.
It seems PCB has been destroyed deliberately and PCB is selecting poor team on purpose.

 

[Areesh]

Well they have included this guy Muhammad Irfan in the team in place of injured players. A 7 foot tall guy.

 

[laiqs@mi]

Imran Nazir, Sami, shahzaib are the best player of t20 format i dont know why pcb is not selecting them. instead of Salman bat????????

 

[SSGPA1]

No Mohammad Irfan either for our team as he was not in the list of 30 probables sent to the ICC.

What the hell Mohsin Khan and Afridi were doing at that time??

Sami, Rehman in Pakistan squad | Pakistan Cricket News | Cricinfo.com

Here is my new team:

Here is my team from T20 squad:

1. Shahzaib Hassan
2. Kamran Akmal
3. Mohammed Hafeez
4. Fawad Alam
5. Umar Akmal
6. Shahid Afridi
7. Abdul Razzaq
8. Saeed Ajmal
9. Mohammed Aamer
10. Mohammed Sami
11. Asif

This team gives us 3 genuine fast bowlers and 2 genuine spinners plus part time bowlers in Fawad, Razzaq and Hafeez.

 

[EagleEyes]

So as i expected, Mohammed Asif failed miserably against a club type team in the West Indies. If they are smart they will play both Asif and Sami in the next warm up game. Sami in my opinion will win the battle. Mohammed Asif simply is not for T20.

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Here is my team from T20 squad:

1. Shahzaib Hassan
2. Kamran Akmal
3. Mohammed Hafeez
4. Fawad Alam
5. Umar Akmal
6. Shahid Afridi
7. Abdul Razzaq
8. Saeed Ajmal
9. Mohammed Aamer
10. Mohammed Irfan
11. Asif

This team gives us 3 genuine fast bowlers and 2 genuine spinners plus part time bowlers in Fawad, Razzaq and Hafeez.

What if Shahid Afridi play as a opener and Kamran Akmal at five down

 

[Hyde]

i am still trying to figure out where Salman butt is going to play? i don't want to see him in final XI but i know PCB they will forcde afridi to play him.

Then who is going to evacuate the slot for Butt?

(I hope thats not true )

 

[EagleEyes]

1) Mohammed Hafeez
2) Kamran Akmal
3) Shahid Afridi
4) Umar Akmal
5) Fawad Alam
6) Misbah-ul-Haq
7) Abdul Razzaq
8) Hammad Azam
9) Mohammed Sami
10) Saeed Ajmal
11) Mohammed Aamer

Misbah needs to be replaced, but by who?

Afridi
Hafeez
Ajmal
Razzaq
Aamer
Sami
Azam

All are capable of bowling 4 overs.

 

[EagleEyes]

i am still trying to figure out where Salman butt is going to play? i don't want to see him in final XI but i know PCB they will forcde afridi to play him.

Then who is going to evacuate the slot for Butt?

(I hope thats not true )

Butt has been reserved to play the 12th man. Carrying drinks will be his specialty along with the on the side interviews.

 

[Hyde]

Butt has been reserved to play the 12th man. Carrying drinks will be his specialty along with the on the side interviews.

1 aur kaam bhi butt ka............ taliyan marna

To support his team members in the field he will be clapping from the pavillion

 

[fawwaxs]

Afridi set for another rollicking ride

Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi’s roller-coaster international career has reflected the fortunes of his team — brilliant, baffling and controversial.



From the time in 1996 when he hit the fastest one-day century off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi, Afridi has never been far from the headlines.



A big-match player, the 30-year-old was the player of the tournament for the inaugural edition of the World Twenty20 in 2007 and last year led Pakistan to the title with match-winning performances in the semi-final and final.



“Pakistan are a team in the making at the moment and Shahid Afridi is quite a force in the shorter form of cricket,” said Pakistan Test legend Mushtaq Mohammad.



“He won us the Twenty20 last summer. He is a very positive cricketer and we need somebody to lead Pakistan from the front.”



Afridi, who gave up Test cricket in 2006, inherited the T20 captaincy after former skippers, and star batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf were banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after the disastrous tour of Australia ended without a single international win for the visitors.



Even Afridi didn’t escape censure.



He was fined 35,000 dollars by the PCB for ball-tampering in a one-day match against Australia in Perth in February, although he appealed saying it was unfair to punish him twice after he was hit with a two-game ban by the International Cricket Council.



Afridi has played 27 Twenty20 internationals, scoring 475 runs with a highest score of 54 not out. He has also taken 37 wickets with a best of 4-11 and a miserly average of 16.32.



Afridi believes his team, who are in Group A for the first round with Bangladesh as well as old rivals Australia in the Caribbean, have the right balance to retain their title.



“I have a well balanced team in batting and bowling, and we have to further lift the standard of fielding. Fielding is crucial in this fastest version of the game and a lot of hard work was done to raise the standard,” said the captain.



“But we have got a lot of firepower in our batting — Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Akmal, Khalid Latif and Salman Butt. As we expect spinning tracks, we have good options in Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Hafeez and myself. In the pace department we have Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Asif and Abdul Razzaq.”



Afridi also told Cricinfo.com | Cricket news, live scores and statistics that it was “mission as captain, with the support of players and team management, to keep the team away from any controversy.”

 

[fawwaxs]

Pakistan breezed to a 68-run win over Windward Islands in the first of their warm-up games at Gros Islet. Put in to bat by Windward Islands, the visitors reached 160 for 7 thanks mainly to Mohammad Hafeez's enterprising half century. Windward Islands crawled to 92 for 4 in reply, with Mohammad Asif the only Pakistan bowler to go for more than four runs an over.

Pakistan lost Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal early in their innings but Hafeez steadied the middle order and lead a late charge before he was bowled by Keron Cottoy for 57. Captain Shahid Afridi and Fawad Alam both reached the 20s before they were dismissed, and a late flurry by Misbah-ul-Haq, who smote two sixes in an eight-ball 17, boosted Pakistan's score in the closing overs.

Windward Islands' reply never got going, and after captain Johnson Charles was caught by Hafeez off the bowling of Mohammad Aamer for 15 the fight seemed to go from the batsmen. Keddy Lesporis top-scored with 24, while the wickets were shared around by Pakistan's bowlers, with Aamer, Hafeez, Afridi and Saeed Ajmal each picking up one.

Pakistan's next warm-up is against Zimbabwe on Thursday at the same venue.

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Butt has been reserved to play the 12th man. Carrying drinks will be his specialty along with the on the side interviews.

HAHAHHA take that WebMaster Butt is playing like a