2010 of Pakistan Cricket Team

2010: What a year that was… Pakistan cricket touched its heights… or may be depths… worst year so far in Pakistan cricket history since 1992 world Cup… We witnessed very poor performance in

all types of games and the cherry of the Cake…. The spot fixing controversy…. Hats off to Mohammad Asif… This was the hat trick after positive dope test and probable drug carrying at Dubai airport…. and if this all was not enough, we had Zulqarnain Haider another Pakistani ruining our image to get political asylum in England… I mean National pride is the last thing they are worried about… and we, the so called in tolerate nation tolerated this all with a smile… Mohammad Asif, Aamir and Salman Butt are still enjoying some support. And If you have forgot this all, Pakistan Cricket was surrounded by some political moves in the dressing room. Shoaib Malik in or out? Younus replaces Yousuf.. Shoaib Akhter to be allowed to bowl in T20s only, Imran Farhat’s mysterious selection, inclusion of another Akmal brother.. I mean what are we targeting??? Is this how we aim to bring home the World Cup. This all could have been put aside if we could

have performed well in the field but our infield performance has been even worse. We played 10 test matches and won only 2 while losing 6 of them, which makes the win loss ratio = 33%. When some of us say that Test is not our format, we are more of a One day and T20 team, let’s see how we performed in the shorter versions of the game. We played 18 ODI and won only 5 losing 13… yes 13... which makes the win loss ratio (28%) even worse than what we had in Test. And finally the T20 internationals, we played total 18 matches and won only 6 of them losing double of the wins i.e. 12 making the win-loss ratio of 33%. So considering the phenomenal record we had in 2010 one can easily determines the pattern we are following… We might be the worst prepared cricket team for upcoming World Cup 2011. But still our nation is waiting for a miracle that is because miracles have happened in the past but those miracles were from the players who played for the nation. Their only goal was the pride of Nation and not the wealth… The team selected for world cup speaks for itself.
World Cup 2011 preliminary squad:

1) Mohammad Hafeez

2) Taufeeq Umar

3) Ahmed Shahzad

4) Nasir Jamshed

5) Younis Khan

6) Mohammad Yousuf

7) Misbah ul Haq

8) Umar Akmal

9) Azhar Ali

10) Naveed Yasin

11) Asad Shafiq

12) Shahid Afridi

13) Abdul Razzaq

14) Yasir Arafat

15) Rana Naveed

16) Salman Ahmed

17) Sarfaraz Ahmed

18) Abdur Rehman

19) Saeed Ajmal

20) Yasir Shah

21) Zulfiqar Babar

22) Shoaib Akhter

23) Umer Gul

24) Wahab Riaz

25) Sohail Tanveer

26) Tanvir Ahmed

27) Junaid Khan

28) Aizaz Cheema

29) Asad Ali

Please send us the final Playing Eleven for the world cup… Although we all know who will be in the playing 11.

Ahtisham Baber
Pakmetro Blog