Pakistan’s team for the Carribean tour will be ann-ounced today. No test match is scheduled for this tour, but still the cricket-lovers of this country are looking forward to some kind of a ‘redemption’ of national pride after the fiasco of the ICC World Championship.
Agreed that this team hasn’t the players of the quality of Inzamam, Mohammad Yousaf and many others who had been shouldering its middle order in batting till recently, but there can be no denying the fact too that some of our woes have been of our own making. Our selectors are totally confused about what to do to those of our accomplished players who are still on the scene. Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razak happen to be among them. Quite clearly the selectors don’t invest much faith in their current form.
The selectors are clearly afraid of finding, trying and testing their replacements among the new players too. Hammad Azam wasn’t given a reasonably fair chance. He is already in the shadows. Misbah and Hafeez too had suffered similar treatment from the selectors in the past. They had exploded on the cricketing scene with great promise but then were dumped for almost half a decade.
This kind of whimsical policy on the part of our selectors has resulted in ruining many a promising player. Umar Akmal and Ahmad Shahzad have been the most recent targets.
One hopes that the selectors make up their mind about whom to say farewell forever and whom to invest their faith in, for the future.
The team that Pakistan will be facing in the West Indies on this tour will be much stronger than those it has faced in the past. It is strong in the batting. And it looks pretty challenging in the bowling department too. Pakistan will have to play to their full potential in order to vindicate some of their bruised honour.
03-07-2013
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