Imran Khan’s commented on Pakistan Squad: Cricket World Cup 2011

Imran Khan commented freely on Pakistan’s chance of doing better in the upcoming Cricket World Cup. In his opinion Pakistan’s chance depends mostly on the availability of Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif.  They are presently the best opening bowling pair and have the ability to make any result . Afridi is the right man to lead Pakistan in the world cup and if he can inspire the team to the triumph. Though Shoaib Akhtar is on the fag end of his career, still he can bowl his first spell like his early days. He will definitely try his best to make a high performance in ending world cup. Umar Gul is famous for his death bowling and in picking wickets especially with new ball; death bowling is a better weapon. In question of spin, Pakistan is well armed with Afridi, Rehman and Ajmal backed up by Hafeez or Shoaib Malik. There is a little bit competition between Ajmal and Rehman in the final playing eleven. Rehman is economical in the middle overs whereas Ajmal is very dependable at the death and in power plays for his doosra.

Imran says Pakistan should go with experienced players and don’t experiment too much and its very important for Pakistan. Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal are very efficient in limited over cricket but they have been missing in recent times. Mohammad Yousuf is another player perhaps to play his last world cup. He is perfect in grace and timing.Imran Khan believes if Pakistan wants a better position in the game, must depend on experienced, tried and tested hands. In recent times Razzaq has been playing greatly for Pakistan with his outstanding hitting in the closing overs. He can be very fruitful for the team .Hafeez has also improved much in recent times and doing the needful for the team both in bat and ball.

He also says it is imperative for Pakistan to get Aamir, Asif and Salman Butt cleared from match fixing riddle and make them play in the world cup.

Imran is optimistic though not over optimistic, about Pakistan.He believes Pakistan has the necessary talents and they only need the execution of it and doing every one’s best. He named a team which he believes are capable of winning the cup.

Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal, Younus Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Aamir, Abdur Rehman, and Mohammad Asif.

Reserves: Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Gul, Asad Shafiq

Source: Sports Encounter

Sri Lanka vs Pakistan ODI series 2009: Pakistan Squad

Pakistan has been beat to Sri Lanka in the three matches Test Series. Perhaps, this is the first test series wins for Sri Lanka team. They beat the visitors 2-0 and taking preparation to take on gust for a one-day international series. I still did not get the information that who will be the team members for the five ODI matches but Pakistan recently had declared the Squad of 16 men where shortly returned Abdul Razzaq’s mane is twinkling. But Mohammad Asif who has been selected for the ICC Champions Trophy that will be held on September in South Africa this year which was scheduled to be held in Pakistan in 2008, has been moved for the security concern.

More than and number of four players who signed with the rebel and unauthorized Indian Cricket League, have returned to the team. Among them Abdul Razzaq was permitted to play the international cricket earlier in the World Twenty20 in England. Mohammad Yousuf attended on the side of Pakistan in the recent Test Series against Sri Lanka. Other two names are Imran Nazir and Rana Naved who are going to play the international match with Sri Lanka.

To tell truth, Pakistan cricket board has selected a very stable team for the one-day international series to take on Mendis and Kumar Sangakkara men. The ODI will be started from 30 July 2009. I will give another post one the Time Schedule of the one-day international series Sri Lanka vs Pakistan.

Pakistan Squad for Sri Lanka ODI series: Younis Khan (captain), Misbah-ul Haq, Mohammad Yousuf, Nasir Jamshed, Imran Nazir, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Abdul Razzaq, Rao Iftikhar, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Aamer, Umar Akmal and Rana Naved.

Pakistan squad and some change for India match in Asia Cup Cricket

After Tri-Series, Pakistan is going to face alongside the strong India on 26 June in the 5^th match of current Asia Cup Cricket tournament assembled by Pakistan. The strong squad of Pakistan helped them to achieve the Kitply Tri-series Trophy by beating India. Now Pakistan selector committee has decided to make a change in the math with India. They has declared a 15 men squad to face India with a new spinner named Saeed Ajmal.

The 30-year-old, who has performed well domestically, was praised as a ‘quality off-spinner’ by Salahuddin. “Ajmal has impressed with his wicket-taking ability and can also bowl one which goes out like former spinner Saqlain Mushtaq and we hope he does well in this tournament,” Salahuddin told reporters. Ajmal, who is playing domestic cricket since 1996-97, has taken 232 wickets in 72 first class matches with an average of 27 runs per wicket. Defending Ajmal’s selection, Salahuddin said Ajmal had performed well in the domestic circuit and one should not be concerned about his age. “There are many examples of aged spinners who played for their countries. Spinners have no age limit,” he maintained.

The selector committee is thinking the new spinner Saeed Ajmal will able to show a good performance during the match along with India. The cause of their selection is a good capacity and effective routine works in the domestic series bound the selectors to include him in the announced team.

Here is the team that has been declared; Squad: Shoaib Malik (captain), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbahul Haq, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Sarfraz Ahmad, Sohail Tanveer, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal and Mansoor Amjad.

Pakistan Squad for Tri-Nation Series Tournament

Tri-Nation ODI Series, 2008 has already started in Dhaka at Ser-e-Bangla Stadium Mirpur form 8 June with the match between host Bangladesh and Pakistan. The host Bangladesh is thinking to do well in the Tri-Nation series tournament.

Two months ago Bangladesh was invited to Pakistan to play 5 matches ODI series. Bangladesh bagged white wash. That was a very good achievement of Pakistan. Now Pakistan is confidence on its team. The squad has some very good quality batsmen and bowlers.

"We have picked the best possible squad for what would be a tough tournament," chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed told Reuters.

"We have also picked a few young players to give them exposure."

Some of the batsmen who played in Indian formatted T20 tournament call IPL have showed very good performances. Sohail Tanvir, Shahid Afridi is one of the best performers during the IPL series.

Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq is the most dependent batsmen in the Pakistan team. So the figures you can see in the blow are not less strong than other teams in the Tri-Nation series tournament.

Squad:

Shoaib Malik (Capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftkhar, Wahab Riaz, Nomanullah, Fawad Alam, Bazid Khan.

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe: Pakistan Squad for 3rd ODI

Pakistan team management has added Sohail Kahn and Khalid Latif in Pakistan squad for third ODI at Multan against Zimbabwe on January 27.

Sohail Khan, a right-arm first bowler, will be replaced in place of Samiulah Khan, a recently debutant cricketer, who failed to haul any wickets in last two ODIs. On the other hand Khalid Latif will be replaced in place of Sarfraz Ahamed, a reserve wicket Keeper.

Sohail Khan made his ODI debut in Karachi was shown his brilliant performance by taking 65 wickets in nine first-class matches in this season including four-day tour match against Zimbabwe. Sohail caused trouble in that four day match of Zimbabwean batsmen by his impressive pace and bounce bowling. But he was injured a slight in his right shoulder during throwing the ball, so he was in rest for a week to the advice of physician.

Pakistan team management wanted to change in their wicket keeping, so they added Sarfraz in their team though he wasn’t kept in team for the 3^rd ODI. So, according to the selectors Kamran Akmal will play in 3^rd ODI. Sarfraz has been sent to a special wicket-keeping camp in Lahore.

And Latif, who performed consecutive half-centuries from his debut in International cricket. Latif scored 593 runs in the recent finishing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. However, his conclusion in the team will create pressure on Salman butt, who has failed to get runs in last matches against Zimbabwe.

Squad : Shoaib Malik, Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Iftikhar Anjum, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Kamran Hussain, Khalid Latif, Sohail Khan. Source Cricinfo.com

India vs Pakistan series 2007: Schedule, India Squad and Pakistan Squad

There is no doubt that India-Pakistan cricket match is more exciting than any other cricket matches in the world. I am supporting strongly on behalf my opinion because the people of both countries love cricket very much than the people of other country in the world. If you observe, you could determine easily that a largest number of cricket fans live in subcontinent. The fans do not remain limited only in India and Pakistan also other countries of the subcontinent. When India-Pakistan match inaugurate then the people of the subcontinent divided into two parts. So the schedule is important for all the fans. Another important and essential thing is the name of the players both the teams. Please see all the information below.

Visit the link below to know which channel will telecast live between India and Pakistan series:

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India vs Pakistan ODI Schedule

Date	Teams and Match	Venue
Mon, Nov 05	India vs Pakistan, 1st ODI	Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad
Thu, Nov 08	India vs Pakistan, 2nd ODI	Punjab CA. Stadium, Mohali
Sun, Nov 11	India vs Pakistan, 3rd ODI	Green Park, Kanpur
Thu, Nov 15	India vs Pakistan, 4th ODI	Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior
Sun, Nov 18	India vs Pakistan, 5th ODI	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

India vs Pakistan Test Schedule

Date

Teams and Match

Venue

Thu, Nov 22 - Mon, Nov 26	India vs Pakistan, 1st Test	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Fri, Nov 30 - Tue, Dec 04	India vs Pakistan, 2nd Test	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Sat, Dec 08 - Wed, Dec 12	India vs Pakistan, 3rd Test	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

The series is most important for Indian team and Indian fans want that the team will beat Pakistan and will with the series. Last month India beat Pakistan and became Twenty20 champion. During that time, in India squad there were more new and inexperienced players. Although some top players have been added but the dependable batsman Dravid is not on the team.

Indian Squad for first two one-dayers: Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik.

On the other hand, Pakistan will try to take the revenge of Twenty20 by winning the series in the host India. Pakistan has a very good record of winning along with Indian. Pakistan selection board also has brought some change too. The selection board has called Shoeb Akter for the team because he did well in home cricket. The iron man Inzamam ul Haque declared to take rest from international cricket during the home series against South Africa.

Pakistan ODI squad Shoaib Malik (capt), Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal (wk), Salman Butt, Yasir Hameed, Imran Nazir, Fawad Alam, Abdur Rehman, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Iftikhar Anjum.