“Your require uniqueness and intensity to be successful”, but you also need to have brains like Dhoni and/or be multi talented like Afridi if you are an attacking cricketer. Otherwise you will just be like Imran Nazir, who on his day can be invincible but has nothing else to boast about.

Afridi is more consistent than Imran Nazir and Imran Nazir in ODI’s is like how Afridi was during his worst form. Afridi has a wider range of shots as well.

Shahid Yousuf is a mediocre batsman. Abdul, I am agreed you can’t rely on statistical data all the time but you have to average at least 35+ in List A and first class cricket to be declared competent.

LOL, I don’t know where you read Imran Khan saying Shahid Yousuf is an Inzamam in the making. He has been playing domestic cricket for 8 years and he has shown no great capability thus far. In the ICL, Rana Naved, Hasan Raza, Hafeez Khalid, Farhat, Nazir, Inzamam- all of these players batted better than S Yousuf. I saw Yousuf in ICL and although he has a good stance and good footwork, he has problems with timing and shot selection.

As regards to S.yousuf Mr Sahab also criticised my comment saying that he was an average candidate. But I’m telling you that his technique is out of the textbook which shows signs of true batsmen with potential. For heaven sake u can’t just rely on statistical data as it doesn’t provide an overall picture of one’s capability. Can U ? Even the likes of Imran Khan and Ramiz Raja have quoted that he’s an Inzamam in the making !

I am totally agree with your selection. You have a keen eye for talent and you got the right composition of the team! Oh boy, Imran Nazir, what a clean hitter, if you ask me he should play T20s, ODIs, and tests as well. But I would see what format you recommend; after all you have the hand on experience unlike the rest of us who just suggest without much logic or technicality.

Imran Nazir
Imran Farhat
Younis Khan
Mohammed Yousuf
Fawad Alam ( young blood)
Shahid Afridi
Kamran Akmarl / Humayn Farhat
Rana Naved
Sohail Tanvir
Umar Gul
Yasir Shah / Tahir Khan

reserves

Misbah
Shahid Yousuf
Sohail Khan/Sami

Former test captain Javed Miandad rejoined the Pakistan Cricket Board as director general Monday after meeting with the chairman Ijaz Butt.

‘It was a very cordial meeting and he is back as director general,’ Butt told The Associated Press after his meeting with Miandad.

Miandad quit in January citing his ‘limited role’ in the PCB.

‘Now everything is settled and I am happy to be back in the cricket board,’ Miandad said.

Domestic media reported that Miandad was not happy with his salary package when he stepped down two months ago. However, he said Monday that money was not the issue.

‘Salary was never the issue and I just want to work for the betterment of Pakistan cricket,’ Miandad said. ‘There are lots of things which need to be done – like how to revive international cricket back in Pakistan and how we could make our domestic cricket more competitive.’

Butt also did not reveal how much the PCB would pay Miandad, but said the return of the former national team’s captain and coach was a positive change for the game.

Salary is ‘a confidential matter between the two parties, but the good thing is that he is back with us,’ Butt said.

Miandad – who has had three stints as Pakistan coach – is Pakistan’s highest runscorer in test matches with 8,832 runs in 124 tests. He played 233 limited-overs internationals, making 7,381 runs.

Miandad was one of the six former test cricketers appointed by Butt after he took over as chairman PCB in October last year.

Salim Altaf (chief operating officer), Wasim Bari (manager human resources), Aamir Sohail (director national cricket academy), Abdul Qadir (chief selector) and Intikhab Alam (coach) were the others.

Butt admitted last month there were procedural flaws in the appointment of Miandad.

He had also claimed that Miandad was interfering in selecting the national team and had also asked for a salary of 1.6 million rupees ($20,000) as opposed to the 500,000 rupees ($6,300) offered in the contract.

Miandad subsequently showed a contract letter – circulated in the PCB headquarters at Lahore on Dec. 4 – to Pakistan’s lawmakers during last month’s meeting of the senate’s standing committee on sports.

According to the letter, directors of game development, international cricket operations, domestic cricket operations, national team coach, manager and chairmen of national junior and senior selection committees all were supposed to report to Miandad.

However, when the contract was formalized, Miandad was made head of domestic cricket operations and department of game development and had a lower level of responsibility.

The lawmakers suggested Butt and Miandad meet to resolve the matter.

Source: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/cricket/miandad-back-as-director-general-pcb-fd

Yeah, looks like the recession is affecting ICL and I also feel that the interest has deteriorated after 26/11.

I think I saw you mention on Pakspin about which ICL players can actually feature in Pakistan’s line up. Apart from Yousuf, I don’t think anyone. In T20 Imran Nazir and Rana Naved should probably get a chance.

Otherwise I don’t see any decent player in ICL. I think Razzaq is a mediocre player compared to current international standards. His bowling, fielding, batting, nothing is good enough to match international standards and that makes him a complete liability because he can neither bat, nor bowl.

If you compare him with Afridi, Afridi is a handy bowler and he is a decent fielder. He is also a good motivator and some guys just like to have him in the team because they feel energised and committed in Afridi’s presence.

Have you seen Younis’s latest interview where he has said he will opt for experience over youth in the series against Australia? I respect Younis for his humble beginnings and good overall nature, but I think he is a bit too obsessed with this whole experience mumbo jumbo. Experience doesn’t mean you keep on playing people like Kaneria, Akmal and Faisal Iqbal who are below average performers. Akmal in fact is a total liability.

http://content.cricinfo.com/pakistandomestic/engine/match/392532.html

Elsewhere Imran Farhat has been striking some form with Afridi but take a look and LOL at Kaneria and anyone who thinks he can play ODI cricket!

I’m wondering what shall be the opening combination. I think Pakistan should experiment in the trio of Butt/Nazir/Farhat for ODI cricket.

Bowling wise the spinners are dominating the headlines which suggests there’s a lot of talent in that department than the sole operator Kaneria. Certainly the likes of Yasir Shah or Tahir Khan shall be striving for a place in the national side.

Wasim played in the era of excellence and your comment no 346 is the epitome of excellence because it is insightful and enlightening. Enlightening in the sense of that it can put vision before the eyes of a blind person.

I like your wit about mentioning our blog secrets and to be fair to you, I am quite agree.

It’s not as easy as u may think because it’s similar to your “blog business secrets “on which you have been resounding and successful but still u are reluctant to reveal due to competition and apply tight restrictions on that even though people value u as successful and rate u fondly. Right? Think of it in that sense and this theory may make sense.