From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: pathetic batting display
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:11:45 GMT

In article <12JAN199312551826@zeus.tamu.edu>, m0a1530@zeus.tamu.edu (ABBAS, MUSTAFA) writes:
|> hi all,
|> pakistani batsmen showed once again how pathetically they can bat.
|> pakistan needed to score 213 runs in 50 overs to win the latest 
|> match. It was hard to believe that they attained an average of
|> 3 runs per over some where in the 40s(overs). The asking rate 
|> kept climbing and after 30 or so overs it was around 6.2. At that
|> point malik and miandad were playing and the score was 90-3(not bad
|> considering their past several displays). One would imagine that
|> with so many batsmen to come, haq, akram, mujtabe, and rashid, 
|> pakistan would try to accelerate. But, for some unknown reason,
|> they kept plodding on and on.
|> After malik's dismissal, haq came and he even beat miandad in
|> their efforts to go slow. It was hard to believe that they were
|> scoring ones and twos when the asking rate was climbing so fast.
|> (i dont remember cursing the pak batsmen so much in half sleep).Only 
|> after the rate had gone up over 10, did pak try to score. Miandad 
|> hit couple of 4's and he was gone. Only and Only Akram tried to score,
|> he took 2's and 3's and forced haq. he tried lusty hitting but was 
|> out soon(atleast he gave his best shot). The rest is history.
|> Even the commentators could not believe why pak were not trying.
|> It looked like pak just wanted to score more than 150 or so after being
|> humiliated so many times. 
|> I hope for RSA tour, the selectors bring in shoib and kick rameez, sohail
|> and few others and appoint akram the captian.


Whom do you suggest to replace Rameez and Sohail? Agree that Rameez is not
a very high calibre batsman but he is quite good for one days(check out his
record) and more importantly is an experienced player(dont forget his WC
performance), Amir(though i am no fan of his) deserves one more chance, he had
great world cup and very good debut series against England. IMHO men to go are
Saeed Anwar, Shahid Saeed, and Naveed Anjum. And Shoaib, Eijaz(b/c there is
no one else) and Zahid Fazal, or one specialist off spinner(if SA wkts suits them)
should replace them, bringing back experienced tausif might not be bad idea or Akram Raza.
|> 	
|> 		Mustafa (Akram for Captain, Waqar for Vice) Abbas

At this stage changing capt will be a ridiculous idea(IMVHO), g've them a break,
pakistan is not perfoming consistently for the last 2 years or so. For reminder
here is brief summary of pak performance in last few years

1989- lost WSC in Aus (another mediocre WSC performance)
1989- Unable to win home series agains India.
1990-Lost test series and WSC in Australia (was quite a hopeless performance)
1991- Narrowly escapes test series (home)defeat against Srilanka.


Good performances:
Nehru cup 1989(?)
home series against NZ 1990
home series against WI 1990
Australasia cup 1990
sharjah cup 1991
WC 1992 (Had a  share of luck!!).
Series victory against England 1992
Test victory over NZ 1993


So you see there are ups and downs, though its hard to fill the void created
by retirement of IK, but changing capts so quickly will make things worse, just see
India. And in defence of Miandad he is not performing bad, rahter he is performing
quite good. And i dont think that there are any rifts in the team, if that was the case
they should have lost the test match in NZ.



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S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca

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