From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: Pakistan's worst team (70,80,90)
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
Distribution: w
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:19:03 GMT

In article <BvHILz.LHM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, khan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (LAHORI POOND) writes:
|> 
|> 1) Rizwan-uz-zaman
|> 2) Mansoor Akhtar (V.C)
|> 3) Haroon rashid (C)
|> 4) Ijaz Faqhi
|> 5) Sajid Ali
|> 6) Taslim Arif (W.k)
|> 7) Nadeem Ghauri
|> 8) Eithshamudin
|> 9) Zakir Khan
|> 10)Mohsin Kamal
|> 11)Nazir Jr
|> 
|>   Compiling this team wasnt very easy. After all not many Pakistani players fit
|> in the abover catogery. Though i would have liked to leave Mansoor Akhtar out ofthe list he still has made a remarkable reputation for himself for screwing up.
|> Its shame cause I have seen him play some great knocks, specially in domestic
|> cricket.Even though Taslim Arif has a double century and a wicket to his credit
|> he still in my opinion was one of the worst keepers we had. Nadeem Ghauri if u 
|> remember is the chap who went on the Aust tour. His a left arm leggie i believe.The poor chap cant field besides his mediocre bowling. Eithashamudin, well what
|> can be said of him hmmmm well i guess he was a typical English cricketer,       overwieght and a very fast spinner with a long start,otherwise known as
|> slow medium pacers. Zakir khan was, well the least said about him the better.
|> I admit the reason why i put mohsin kamal up there was not neccessarily cause
|> of his cricketing abilities but because for some reason i just hated his guts.
|> I guess that hatred stems from the Gymkhana enclousre in Lahore. Putting 
|> Nazir Jr there also was a shame cause having played him once twice i started to
|> respect him a lot. EVen at his age he had great controll over him bowling. The
|> reason why I Put him there was cause i just cant come up with a name of a lousy off spinner from the top of my mind. Hopefully someone can replace his name fromthe list.
|>       As far as Rizwan ,Ijaz and Haroon Rashid are concerned i think they    
|>  deserve thier spot. The worked hard for their positions. I was tempted to
|>  put Zaheer Abbas's name up there but then I realized that I would soon be
|>  cooked on a high flame over the net. Even though he had some great innings and
|>  a good style he hardly played any match winning or match saving inning for
|>  Pakistan. Anyway he just manages to scrap through. Boy is my mail gonna be
|>  flooded for saying this. Oh yeah i am not sure if Sajid Ali played for pak or
|>  not though seeing him play domestically was enough to put him in there.   
|>     Its geting late here so.............
|> 
|> 
|>  laters 
|>              ___
|>  Lahori (LHL 111) Poond
|> 
Hey! first you have to leave out Nazir Jr, Haroon Rashid and Tasleem Arif its really
unfair to them and to such a team. Nazir Jr never performed badly whenever given chance,
Haroon Rashid was brialliant batsmen it was just his hard luck that people roasted
him for his slow inning in 79 semis and later he losses motivation but he too performed
well in most of his appearances for pakistan. Tasleem Arif also performed reasonably well
in his short career with pakistan team and you should keep in mind that he did'nt get
chance in his peak, for poor keeping you can have Israr?(the one who replaces Bari
in late seventies for a brief period before slectors realises Bari's value), Ashraf Ali,
or Zulqarnain.

If you are selecting such a team for 70's, 80's and 90's then i must say you 
are doing injustice to so many great mediocre players of 70's e.g., furrukh zaman
(the only test cricketer who does'nt have run/wkt/catch to his credit or is 
saeed anwar is new addition to this list), Talat Ali etc etc (some one little old
might recalled more names exactly from that period).


Lastly, how can you say such a thing about Zaheer? agreed that he had some
temprament problems but style wise, and capability wise he was one of the best
if not best batsman pakistan has ever produced. And if you are saying that he hardly
played any match winning or match saving inning, then i dare say that your memory is
too short :-)

S.R.Raza.