Stani Army

Talk amongst fans may have been regarding the ‘SOS’ sent to Younis Khan but fans tend to forget very easily. Younis has not been in the best of batting form but the manner in which some are going about recalling him, you’d think he was the answer to our problems. That answer, in my opinion, is Shahid Afridi. Younis’ addition to the line up would be right, not because of what he has done but what his replacements haven’t, but Afridi would be the man to make that difference. In the first innings, Australia just strolled along as our bowlers struggled for that elusive break through. That was a situation made for Afridi and his attacking brand of spin.

Shahid Afridi, time to pull out the Test whites

Just imagine that was Afridi bowling to Watson when he was on 99 in the second innings? Now that would have been entertainment and I’m sure Watson would have been heading for the dressing room having left a brown trail behind him. The good thing is that Afridi is close by, currently in Australia playing for the South Australia Redbacks in a twenty20 competition in which he won the man of the match award just yesterday with bowling figures of 4 for 19.

Read the rest of this entry »

If Faisal Iqbal is “heartbroken” for missing out on a place in the T20 practice matches then I’m heartbroken to be missing out too. And yes, so should you be. I mean, what were the PCB thinking?

His justification for being included in the two teams made up to play in the 3 warm up matches before the team flies to England, was that he was included in the initial T20 30 provisional squad (though not in the final 15). The thing is that the initial 30 man squad was not chosen with the intention of making two teams out of it i.e. the right number of bowlers, batsmen, spinners etc to make up two balanced teams. Faisal can’t understand this.