Inzamam's career - over or not?

[Moin91]

The former captain of Pakistan Cricket team Inzamamul Haq decided late Tuesday to get retirement from test cricket as well.

According to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) sources, Inzamam made up his mind in this connection in his meeting with PCB officials three days back.

According to his understanding with PCB, the test match against South Africa being played at Gaddafi Stadium from October 8 will be the last test of his career.

A former captain is said to have played a vital role in striking this understanding with PCB.

According to the understanding, Inzamam will make a formal announcement to this effect in a press conference on Friday.

Besides, PCB will organize a farewell ceremony in honour of the former captain, where he would be given Rs10 million.

Inzamamul Haq has to his test career 8813 runs in 119 test matches. If he scores 20 runs in his last test, he will break Javed Miandad’s record of 8832 runs.

Besides, he scored 11739 runs in 378 one-day matches.

 

[Moin91]

INZAMAM-UL-HAQ

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[Moin91]

INZAMAM-UL-HAQ BATTING V SOUTH AFRICA

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[Moin91]

TRIBUTE TO INZAMAM-UL-HAQ
nice video and nice urdu song

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[Moin91]

INZAMAM
another nice video Khuda Hafiz Inziiii

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[acidwolf]

he is playing last game against south africa and will try to get 20 runs to beat javed miandad record and inshallah he will... he gave a lot to pakistan cricket bless him and wish him good luck for future assignments

 

[HAIDER]

Best of luck in Indian League..

 

[IceCold]

He could have played more for pakistan even as a test crickter. There was a news today early in the morning at sehri on Sky NEws quoting Inzamam dismissing claims about his retirement. Anyhow it will be sad to watch him go, we have already lost almost all of the senior players in the team.

 

[IceCold]

Pakistan’s 16-man team for 2nd Test announced

KARACHI: Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has been included in the 16-member Pakistan squad for the second Test match.The team has been announced by the selection committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board here today.

Chief selector Salahuddin Sallu announced the 16-member team at a press conference in the National Stadium, Karachi on Friday.

The team consists of the following players:
Shoaib Malik (captain), Inzamam-ul-Haq, Muhammad Yousuf, Younus Khan, Salman Butt, Taufiq Umar, Yasir Hameed, Faisal Iqbal, Kamran Akmal, Muhammad Hafeez, Danish Kaneria, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Asif, Umar Gul, Misbah-ul-Haq and Rao Iftikhar Anjum.

The second and the final Test between Pakistan and South Africa will be played from Monday, October 8 at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

Inzamam-ul-Haq will play the last Test match of his career.

 

[EagleEyes]

He will be a hero of many, but cannot be a legend in Pakistani cricket.

 

[Moin91]

He will be a hero of many, but cannot be a legend in Pakistani cricket.

but why ?? can you expalain ??

 

[EagleEyes]

Its just my opinion bro. His ending didn't turn out to be like Miandad, Imran Khan or Waseem Akram. His ending was the most saddest part of the Pakistani cricket in history.

 

[Moin91]

INZAMAM-UL-HAQ'S PROFILE​

Born March 3, 1970, Multan, Punjab

Major teams Pakistan, Asia XI, Faisalabad, ICC World XI, Multan, National Bank of Pakistan, Rawalpindi, United Bank Limited

Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

TEST DEBUT
Thursday, 4th June 1992 1st Test v. England at Edgbaston, Birmingham (Aged: 22)
TEST CAREER
Matches: 116
Runs: 8615 Ave: 50.38
Wkts: 0 Ave: n/a
Catches: 79
Last Test: 2006 3rd Test v. West Indies at Karachi (National Stadium)

Wisden overview
Inzamam-ul-Haq is a symbiosis of strength and subtlety. Power is no surprise, but sublime touch is remarkable for a man of his bulk. He loathes exercise and often looks a passenger in the field, but with a willow between his palms he is suddenly galvanised. He plays shots all round the wicket, is especially strong off his legs, and unleashes ferocious pulls and lofted drives. Imran Khan rates him the best batsman in the world against pace. Early on he is vulnerable playing across his front pad or groping outside off stump. He uses his feet well to the spinners, although this aggression can be his undoing. Inzi keeps a cool head in a crisis and has succeeded Javed Miandad as Pakistan's premier batsman, but his hapless running between wickets is legendary and most dangerous for his partners. There were no such problems against New Zealand at a boiling Lahore in 2001-02, when Inzamam belted 329, the second-highest Test score by a Pakistani and the tenth-highest by anyone. However, he was then dogged by poor form, scoring just 16 runs in Pakistan's ill-fated World Cup campaign in 2003. He was dropped from the team briefly, but then roared back to form, scoring a magnificent unbeaten 138 and guiding Pakistan to a thrilling one-wicket win against Bangladesh at Multan. He was rewarded with the captaincy of the team, and despite leading them to victory in the Test series in New Zealand, question-marks about his leadership qualities surfaced when Pakistan were beaten in both the Test series and the one-dayers against India. But the selectors persevered with him and this bore results when he took a team thin on bowling resources to India and drew the Test series with a rousing performance in the final Test, Inzamam's 100th. After scoring a magnificent 184, Inzamam lead the team astutely on a tense final day and took Pakistan to victory. Since that day, Inzamam has gone from strength to strength as captain and premier batsman. By scoring a hundred against West Indies in June 2005, he kept up a remarkable record of matchwinning centuries, amongt the best among modern-day batsmen. A magnificent year ended with Inzamam leading his team to triumph over Ashes-winning England; personally the series was arguably his best ever. He never failed to make a fifty, scored twin centuries at Faisalabad for the first time, going past Miandad as Pakistan's leading century-maker and joining him as only the second Pakistani with 8000 Test runs. As captain, he never looked more a leader, uniting a young, inexperienced team and turning them, once again, into a force to matter globally.

 

[Moin91]

Farewell to Inzy, one of cricket's all-time greats

By Lawrence Booth
SportBlog Guardian

And so Inzamam-ul-Haq has decided to call it a day. Sunday's second Test against South Africa at Lahore will be his 120th and last for Pakistan, at which point prepare yourself for a host of epitaphs lamenting the end of an era. They will be right too. I don't know about you, but I'm missing him already.
Players from the subcontinent have not always inspired affection from the rest of the cricketing world. You can admire Tendulkar, swoon at Imran, respect Dravid and wonder at Murali. But Inzamam was different. We even called him "Inzy" because the way he went about things seemed to demand a leisurely informality. He once made 114 and 85 in a Test at Old Trafford and barely broke sweat. It remains one of the most quietly commanding performances of the modern era.
Let's get one thing straight: Inzy is one of cricket's all-time greats. He has scored more than 20,000 international runs, and needs another 20 to break Javed Miandad's Pakistan Test record of 8,832. He averages 50 and once scored 329 in a single innings against New Zealand, batting for almost 10 hours in the heat of Lahore to stick two gentle fingers up to those who teased him about his weight.
This was part of his charm. Few sportsmen in the modern era have combined such apparent indolence with such devastating hand-eye co-ordination. He gave new meaning to the phrase "economy of movement", mainly because he wasn't fussed about using his foot, either at the crease or between the wickets. He was run out 40 times in one-day internationals (only Sri Lanka's Marvan Atapattu, with 41, has suffered more). His attitude to practice would have driven Duncan Fletcher to distraction. His press conferences were tedious (Vic Marks called them "much Urdu about nothing"). Yet few could match him. He was the lumbering antithesis of modern sport's obsession with bleep tests, energising drinks and fat-free diets. Perhaps he encouraged us to think we had a chance too.
There were dark moments, of course: he once waded into a crowd in Toronto with a bat to accost a spectator who had been bellowing "aloo" (Hindi for potato) through a megaphone; he was accused by Justice Qayyum, compiler of Pakistani cricket's most famous report into match-fixing, of suffering "partial amnesia" about a suspect game in Christchurch; he was accused of taking his devotion to Islam too far for the good of the team ethic; and he was at the centre of the abandonment of the Oval Test last year, when his insistence that a nation had been insulted began to wear thin.
Somehow, these moments all added to, rather than detracted from, the legend. And to understand it properly, you have to go back to the beginning. It was in the 1992 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand at Auckland that Inzamam - svelte, beardless, and barely 22 - made a staggering 60 off 37 balls to rescue a match that had seemed lost. In the final, he hit England for 42 off 35 deliveries. As Imran retired, Inzamam took the baton and settled down to the business of scoring runs. Lots of them.
Australia and South Africa generally got the better of him, which was no disgrace. But against all others he scored at will. Across two Test series against England in 2001 and 2005-06, he made nine successive scores of 50 or more. That sequence included twin centuries at Faisalabad, where he seemed to assume the status of a demi-god. When England ran him out for 97 in the next Test, it felt like a success.
Now, he has one more chance to stir the memories. The chairman of the Pakistan board is already referring to the Lahore match against South Africa as the "Inzamam Test", which places him on a Pakistani pedestal already inhabited by Imran, Javed and Wasim Akram. After that, he will play in the ill-conceived Indian Cricket League. There will be some meaty pulls, a run-out or two and a nice cheque at the end of it. Heck, he just about deserves it.

 

[Moin91]

I hope Inzii made his last test memorable and made double century (INHSALLAH)
kHUDA HAFIZ INZI BHAI . we will miss you so much