Wasim Akram is the cancer ...
Shehzad Haq
Wasim Akram is the cancer in the Pakistan team. He should be kicked
out ASAP. He is holding good bowlers back (Waqar, Mohd. Akram) so that
he can find a place in the team. He is over the hill and needs to find
another profession.
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Wasim was unfair to me in Hobart Test, says disgruntled Waqar
'If he (Wasim) has any grudge, the best place
to settle that is inside a room and not on the ground'
From our correspondent
LAHORE: Discarded pace bowler Waqar Younus on Monday hit out at the
PCB selectors for ignoring him for the triangular cricket series to
start from January 6, 2000 in Australia. "My performance was never
tested in the Test match series against Australia but still my name
was excluded from Australia-bound squad without ant reason," Waqar
said at a press briefing at the Lahore Press Club.
He alleged that a particular lobby inside the PCB management was
working against him and his exclusion from the team was the work of
this lobby. He complained the PCB was treating "as if I am a beginner.
I am being meted out this treatment for the last one and a half
years," he added.
The Burewala Express demanded more chances for himself, saying he was
fully fit to deliver for his country. "I am fully fit and can serve
the country for at least two more years," he said. "If I am ignored
consistently I will start playing county cricket in England." Talking
about his so-called rivalry against team captain Wasim Akram, Waqar
said if Wasim had any grudge against him "the best place to settle
that is inside a room and not the ground"
The great fast bowler was also unhappy with the way he was
under-bowled in the Hobart Test against Australia. "I fully respect
Wasim but the way he treated me during the Hobart Test was one of the
reasons due to which Pakistan lost the match." About the process of
team selection in Australia, Waqar said it was a one-man show as
"Wasim Akram completely dominates the selection of the team which is
injustice."
Waqar said he had already talked to team manager Yawar Saeed and also
planned to meet PCB chairman Zafar Altaf on the issue. About the
performance of the team, Waqar said "at present there is no
combination in the team and each player is concentrating on his own
performance."
"Wasim Akram is a good skipper but his intentions are not clear. I do
not want to indulge in any controversy but due to wrong behaviour of
the PCB selectors and captain Wasim Akram, I have been forced to
approach the media," he said. Waqar also sympathised with Aamer Sohail
who he said was also being treated badly despite his brilliant
performances in the current domestic cricket season.
He questioned the use of domestic season if players could not be
picked up for the national team despite performing excellently in the
season. About Shoaib Akhtar, Waqar said it was due to inexperience
that the young bowler was not taking enough wickets. "After sometimes,
he will show his mettle," he said.
Waqas
Shehzad Haq <ha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Wasim Akram is the cancer in the Pakistan team. He should be kicked
> out ASAP. He is holding good bowlers back (Waqar, Mohd. Akram) so that
> he can find a place in the team. He is over the hill and needs to find
> another profession.
Cancers are people who go to the press to press their atrocious claims for
spots that they do not deserve and arm-chair CRITICS who shoot their wads
without checking their facts and just go into IRC and whine. The last 10
matches the Wasim and Waqar played for Pakistan have the following results -
and they make abundantly clear the difference between claims and realities:
M B R W Ave. S/R Econ.
Waqar 10 534 508 13 41.1 46 5.71
Wasim 10 504 311 15 20.73 33.6 3.70
Waqar should only be allowed within a mile of an ODI for Pakistan if he pays
for the ticket. He does not deserve his spot, not just for those figures,
but also for his atrocious fielding, his non-existent batting and his knife
in the back attitude. I know who I would pick from amongst Azhar, Razzaq and
Waqar for my ODI team. Pakistan did make the final of the WCC99 final
without Waqar's contributions and can surely do well without him.
As for cancers - there are enough on the loose in Pakistan cricket - add the
name of Waqar Younis to that list. I am sure that the newspapers in England
would take his calls like they did Rashid Latif's to try to sell them
evidence for $50K. And no it is not about money (wink wink).
Waqar should realize his whining in the press does not make him a martyr but
just exposes him for the what he is - he should learn to solve his problems
face to face with his team-mates and try to earn his place by performance
and not by flaming the passions of people.
BTW, the changing of the PCB AGAIN by Tarar would be downright comical if it
would not be so stupid. They then wonder why the team performs below par
when they change 4 coaches in a season and change 4 boards in six months.
Way to go Mr. President - you seem to make wise long-term decisions - NOT!
Waqas
Raza Rahman
*** Agree 100% with you on that! Akram is a poor captain and his (no doubt
temporary) loss of Test bowling form is a good opportunity to relegate him to
ODIs. I have no doubt that he'll continue to do well in ODIs, but he's a
liability overall and definitely in Tests for the reason that he can't play as
anything other than Captain. Wasim's had problems with everyone but patent
yes-men. If you don't follow him quietly into the pits of defeat (where he'll
invariably lead you), you won't play in the Test side. Wasim's regular grudge
matches have cost the team dearly. It's time for this prima wanka to suck on a
candy cane.
As far as Waqar not being included in the ODI series, I say that's a blessing.
Waqar's too valuable to waste on nonsensical ODIs, I say save him for Tests;
let the boy-blunder do Akram's bidding.
And where's that bloody match-fixing report - I guess it'll be out the same
time Nawaz Sharif is convicted by the ATC. As if!
Rick Pitino.
Shehzad Haq wrote:
>
> Wasim Akram is the cancer in the Pakistan team. He should be kicked
> out ASAP. He is holding good bowlers back (Waqar, Mohd. Akram) so that
> he can find a place in the team. He is over the hill and needs to find
> another profession.
>
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Razi Chaudhry
Start to accept defeat with grace.
Don't pull threads to find something that can discredit wasim akram.
Australia were a stronger team and they won. There is nothing more to it.
Regards
Razi Chaudhry
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James Stewart
the case is terminal.
David Gigliotti
got to be joking about kicking him out.
Waqas wrote in message <8365a0$7...@chronicle.concentric.net>...
>> out ASAP. He is holding good bowlers back (Waqar, Mohd. Akram) so that
>> he can find a place in the team. He is over the hill and needs to find
>> another profession.
>
Shehzad Haq
>
>BTW, the changing of the PCB AGAIN by Tarar would be downright comical if it
>would not be so stupid. They then wonder why the team performs below par
>when they change 4 coaches in a season and change 4 boards in six months.
>Way to go Mr. President - you seem to make wise long-term decisions - NOT!
>
Fortunately, this idiot (Tarar) has no power. I am assuming that the
decisions are made somewhere else and he is just given the press
release with a kick on his ass to read it.
But, you are absolutely right when you say that the problem is with
PCB. It is rotten to the core. The same buffoons like Javed Burki etc.
keep coming back to feast on the public trough.
Shehzad
Shehzad Haq
wrote:
>You are acting like a typical idot.
>Start to accept defeat with grace.
** yawn **
Waqas
David Gigliotti <dav...@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> If you do not want Wasim Akram, Australia will have him any day. You
have
> got to be joking about kicking him out.
> Waqas wrote in message <8365a0$7...@chronicle.concentric.net>...
> >
> >Shehzad Haq <ha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:3856574e....@nntp.netcom.ca...
David,
I was trying to support Wasim. To me Wasim Akram is a national treasure.
Unfortunately, he is often meted disgusting treatment by the
so-called-Pakistani fans. We are an emotional lot, we Pakistanis, who judge
our sporting heroes, sometimes, not for their tremendous contributions and
duty to the Pakistan teams but by their failures - however occasional.
I would not trade Wasim Akram for anyone and neither would I trade a Waqar
for anyone too.
I just wish that players like Waqar realize that they walk into the traps of
politicos that are after these cricketing posts when they become their
mouth-pieces and tarnish their own reputations. Can you imagine any other
country that has their cricketing board having an adversarial relationship
with their prime assets - the cricketers - to the extent of trying to bully
them, defame them at every opportunity or trying to act as pukka-sahibs in
front of the ones that are not the most articulate (see the whole tenure of
Majid as PCB CEO). If they are not bullying the players, they are pushing
their personal vendettas against the players - to teach them who is boss.
The Pakistan cricket team has often had to fight their own board almost as
much or more than they have had to fight other teams on the field. There is
no recognition for achievement but just wild accusation leveled against them
at the slightest pretext - fueled by a press that is absolutely incompetent
in cricketing matters and has a tabloid-like tendency even in the mainstream
with no gravitas to reporting or analysis of facts.
In any event, they are the problems of Pakistan cricket. They have been and
will remain in force for the foreseeable future. It is a miracle that a team
performs as it does inspite of 4 coaches, 4 boards in six months time and
constant whining from the Farishteh Gati's of the world.
I wonder what would happen if these players ever got support from the board
and had knowledgeable cricketing followers supporting them with a
value-neutral press - they might even surprise us with being the very best
in the world on a consistent basis. But if wishes were horses then beggars
would ride.
Cheers,
Waqas
Mike Holmans
opine:
>Waqar should only be allowed within a mile of an ODI for Pakistan if he pays
>for the ticket. He does not deserve his spot, not just for those figures,
>but also for his atrocious fielding, his non-existent batting and his knife
>in the back attitude. I know who I would pick from amongst Azhar, Razzaq and
>Waqar for my ODI team. Pakistan did make the final of the WCC99 final
>without Waqar's contributions and can surely do well without him.
>
>As for cancers - there are enough on the loose in Pakistan cricket - add the
>name of Waqar Younis to that list. I am sure that the newspapers in England
>would take his calls like they did Rashid Latif's to try to sell them
>evidence for $50K. And no it is not about money (wink wink).
>
>Waqar should realize his whining in the press does not make him a martyr but
>just exposes him for the what he is - he should learn to solve his problems
>face to face with his team-mates and try to earn his place by performance
>and not by flaming the passions of people.
I don't suppose we'll ever find out the truth while both are still
active players.
Captains are human, and can nurse grudges and antipathies just like
the other players. Brian Lara would have played many more Tests than
he has if Viv Richards hadn't been determined to keep him out of the
team (why was Binary Man preferred to Lara so often, for instance?).
Mike Atherton was no fan of Phil Tufnell's, and made him bowl
defensively most of the time, whereas Hussain not only asks him to
bowl aggressively but even has him in the tour management committee.
Waqar's poor figures could be down to his own performance, but they
could also result from the captain's mishandling of him, which may or
may not be motivated by spite.
Some teams can thrive on mutual hatred: most of the almost invincible
Yorkshire team of the 1960s played more against each other than their
opponents, for instance. It does not appear to be assisting Pakistan,
though.
Cheers,
Mike
--
"I'm not a expert" - Azhars
Mad Hamish
>
>Wasim Akram is the cancer in the Pakistan team. He should be kicked
>out ASAP. He is holding good bowlers back (Waqar, Mohd. Akram) so that
>he can find a place in the team. He is over the hill and needs to find
>another profession.
how many wickets has Wasim Akram taken in the last year?
>
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>
>Wasim was unfair to me in Hobart Test, says disgruntled Waqar
>
>'If he (Wasim) has any grudge, the best place
>to settle that is inside a room and not on the ground'
>
_If_ a very important word there.
>From our correspondent
>
>LAHORE: Discarded pace bowler Waqar Younus on Monday hit out at the
>PCB selectors for ignoring him for the triangular cricket series to
>start from January 6, 2000 in Australia. "My performance was never
>tested in the Test match series against Australia
That might be true, OTOH going over on his ankle and not being fit to bowl after
that probably didn't help his cause.
>but still my name
>was excluded from Australia-bound squad without ant reason,"
I'd have thought it might have been because he's never been a particularly
inexpensive one day bowler and they don't think that he can route a side like he
used to.
>
>The great fast bowler was also unhappy with the way he was
>under-bowled in the Hobart Test against Australia. "I fully respect
>Wasim but the way he treated me during the Hobart Test was one of the
>reasons due to which Pakistan lost the match."
Um, he went over on his ankle and looked rather proppy on the field.
Nor did he look particularly good in the few overs he did bowl on day 5.
> About the process of
>team selection in Australia, Waqar said it was a one-man show as
>"Wasim Akram completely dominates the selection of the team which is
>injustice."
Dunno, considering that Wasim is going to cop all the flack if the team loses he
might as well chose the team.
>
>Waqar said he had already talked to team manager Yawar Saeed and also
>planned to meet PCB chairman Zafar Altaf on the issue.
He'd have been much better talking to the management before mouthing off to the
press.
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