khansaab thnx 4 offering to contribute on myblog.it will be called GUFRAN’S WORLD and i will be giving you website details very soon.thanks sir,and others in pakcric management.

No one is denying the fact that laxman, ganguly, dravid and sachin are hard to replace even its impossible at this point of time. Whoever come to their places will lack 10 15 yrs of experience. Now take the other case as u r pointing … dont replace them and let them play as long as they are performing. Ganguly and dravid are of 35, laxman is of 33 and sachin 34 … how long they can sustain … 1 yr or 2 yrs … now suppose they slip in the form after 2 yrs .. then where will be the indian cricket in the 2011 WC … we will be again bunch of exhausted players .. and just before WC no team try to change their combination.

Here i am not considering their fielding and running between the wickets just their batting form. In close matches above things matter big time (we have seen in recent concluded series against england and aus .. they needed 30 more runs for fielding compensation). I agree to some extent that team consisting of these players have higher chance to winning CB series .. but CB series is not everything. Lets hope out of remaining 6 matches in CB series, youngsters perform and give us 3 wins. That will be no less feat by any means.

As a business policy we are sorry we can’t tell you where we advertised Pakcric- there is a conflict of interest situation here.

But we wish you all the best in whatever you decide to do, and we will contribute on your blog or site if you would like us to.

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Not only do we welcome and appreciate your comments, criticism and new ideas, we would also welcome a new thread that you recommend or even write yourself and we will seriously consider posting it.

Aus really hammered Lankans after two washouts and now head the table. Let’s see who joins them in the finals.

You are right in saying that Sachin now has the responsibility to guide the young souls in the squad. But do you honestly think that bringing youngsters earlier would have helped?

Is there much point in trying out a youngster consistently if your senior players are performing so well. That is a distinction between Pakistan and Indian team and I think this point has been touched by one or two of the bloggers previously. In Pakistan they played youngsters too less when the seniors were not performing. I know there is a point in saying that there seems to be no one to take the reins after Dravid, Laxman, Sachin and Ganguly depart but the question always will be, why sideline a senior and give importance to the junior when the senior has been performing consistently?

Yes against minnow teams you can experiment to an extent but international cricket has become very competitive in the last few years, even though the Indian team has grown in strength.

(now shud i retype the whole para on the other site too )

Coming to the serious discussion thats going on here ab’t the blend of youth and experience .. one shud see the real picture of indian cricket. Its always good to go through smooth transition rather haphazard .. but the indian selectors are already a year or so late in bringing youth … though they brought raina and put faith in kaif & yuvi(2006) … except yuvi all failed and that too is comprehensible .. raina was too young to play the role of finisher .. and kaif lacked that class to play out middle overs according to situation .. that lead to couple of series loss just before the WC and then selectors rolled back their decision (the height of stupidness was to bring kumble in odi and they were seriously thinking ab’t bringing laxman back .. both were out of odis for quite a time).

Until now selectors were searching for rite time to bring youth again .. uthappa is an example but the question is at which position he shud play …. they end up making an opener to a slogger and everybody knows the consistency of a slogger. Considering dravid and ganguly in the team, only one position is available for new batsman (in 7+4 combination too) .. then god knows his batting position and how he will get experience and can handle pressure in match situation.

This way team can’t find a player but just make excuse for unavailability of talent. Now in indian team 3 regular slots are available for 6 youngsters and all are pushing to get one. Any selected three in playing 11 will get fair amount of responsibility and have to show their substance on regular basis .. i think this is the way to find future players and also rite way to groom them. After a long time, selectors have made a positive move … and more than anybody they are going to be criticized if these youngsters wont perform. But i hope they dont roll back their decision after couple of early defeats. As long as the learning curves of these 6 guys are upward indian cricket future are in safe hands.

p.s — The value of sachin is never that high as is now … forget ab’t coach and captain and all .. he is the guy who got fair amount of responsibility to guide these youngsters … and if reports are to be believed there is already buzz ab’t “the little master and his 6 young pupils”.

Despite what Wasim Saqib did to us, the Pakcric management have no hard feelings for him and wish him all the best with his ambitions.

I don’t want to go in details as to what happened, other than the fact that it was a case of breach of trust and confidence. However we are lucky that a lot of individuals never participated on Wasim’s website in the first place and kept loyal to Pakcric. This explains why we have received so many hits that are all genuine and mind you, not faked by the management!

You asked us what we do. I am currently working for an insurance company, saving money to pay for a compulsory course that would teach me the basic skills to practice law. Javed A Khan has a medical and banking background but currently owns a real estate company. Awas is a senior partner at an Accountancy firm.