Kamran Akmal!

[Nawaz]

It will be interesting how he performs with gloves here now the selectors have shown there confidence in him, He knows a poor performance here could see them turn to ahmed who is now in the squad!

[Faisal]

need to get rid off butter fingers straight away. a bloody liability.

[Nawaz]

So far has just had regulation takes and he has done that as you would decently, the real test will be once the edges start and will he hold onto them and crucially how keeps to afridi's and Malik's spin bowling!

[Nawaz]

First good bit of work done by akmal, Samiullah attempted a bouncer it went wrong and went wide and Akmal made a good take as it was well over him and somehow lept and got it!

[Nawaz]

Sohail Tanvir to Masakadza, OUT, brilliant reflexes! pitches on a good length bang on off stump, the ball holds its line, Masakadza pokes at it, gets a thick outside edge which flies low to Kamran Akmal who plucks it one-handed diving to his right

Cricinfo verdict on Akmal catch!

[Faisal]

well he knows he needs to get his act together now or his time will be up soon.

[Maulana Diesal]

akmal in Pak seems to do quite well actually, behind the stumps and both at the wicket whilst batting,

so don't be surprised if he does well in the series,

[Faisal]

It's spinners he struggles against a lot though...especially kaneria who is rubbish himself.

[Nawaz]

Impressive performance behind the stumps by Akmal especially with his catch for the first wicket had he missed that the zim could have gone onto post there 100 without no wicket loss as the bowlers were giving there boundaries, We need to assess his batting next and possibly promote him to 6 or 7 next game to see if there has been any improvements!

[Nawaz]

I always knew having another wk in the squad would end the complacency and make akmal realise that they could replace anytime if he performs badly and we saw a definite improvement in the keeping hopefully its a start of things to come and Id like just like to see the return of his batting to 2005/2006 form when he was scoring centuries easily!

[Faisal]

i would like hin to improve his batting but more than anything i want a wicket keeper who can wicket keep and bat a bit. If can bat more than a bit thats a fuckin bonus but he must be able to catch the bloody ball and keep.

[Invictus]

One poor year doesnt get washed up by one steady performance. Give him the series, he'll drop plenty.

[,]

The kanjar should have been dropped

[makemytime]

Akmal hasn't performed too well. Drop him and find a Gilchrist

[cinderella]

he should have been dropped ages ago. he is not going to be dropped now if he hasn't already. this is a dead issue....seriously.

[zaid]

simple solution

we'll drop him ourselves

...

off a cliff

[Raz]

Give him the series and watch carefully how he keeps to the spinners generally, not about taking the catches/stumpings but general takes. I have seen him drop simple takes in the past, never mind the dropped catches or missed stumpings.

[Gasherbrum]

Akmal watch
Number-crunchers will confirm it, but if Kaneria had a wicketkeeper who could hold onto some edges, he would've gone past 300 Test wickets long ago. Instead he has Kamran Akmal. The senior Akmal dropped regulation edges from Michael Hussey thrice off Kaneria's bowling, on 27, 45 and 52. In the morning Akmal had inexplicably forgotten to remove the bails in a run-out attempt on Shane Watson. Younger brother Umar has also dropped two sitters in the series so far; perhaps Adnan, the best hands of the three brothers according to the late Bob Woolmer, should be recruited as a substitute?
(Cricinfo)

WTF! dude, you better start making runs again.

[Love Machine]

God dam him dropped Hussey three times what the hell is wrong witht his guy?

[Gasherbrum]

you keep hoping he'll get better ... but it just ain't happening. his performances with the bat have made him an auto selection, coupled with the frailty our batting. but one poor series and he should really be close to getting chopped from the test side.

[UJ!]

Its simple, as soon as Kaneria returns, catches go down. He cant keep to wrist spinners.... its just a question of how many more games he'll cost us before they decide that a change is needed. I say 23 more.

[Gasherbrum]

yep, 23 sounds about right.
and his inept batting form this series just compounds the misery.

[inswing]

he should not be dropped for T20s and ODI, but seriously PCBs problem is they use players in formats players dont prefer.

For example kamran akmal is not a test player.
moyo and younis khan are not odi players.

[mohsin]

Originally Posted by DB10

he should not be dropped for T20s and ODI, but seriously PCBs problem is they use players in formats players dont prefer.

For example kamran akmal is not a test player.
moyo and younis khan are not test players.

wtf man

[inswing]

Originally Posted by mohsin

wtf man

mistake, edited.

[Love Machine]

Well Umar is good btu not what I originally thought of him.

[cricketfan]

Originally Posted by Love Machine

Well Umar is good btu not what I originally thought of him.

He does all the hard work, getting in but then throws it away!! His technique is very good but needs to be much more selective if he is to make big scores!!

[Invictus]

Akmal should have been dropped a year ago now he needs to be put down.

[sneeky]

dressing room mai muth maar raha hota hai gloves ke saath... lotion saaf karay baghair ajata hai field pe bhen ka lora!

[Love Machine]

[Nawaz]

The removal of Akmal has finally happened, Long overdue, only problem is ahmed glovework seems to be fine but his batting has not impressed at at all, if he continues to score lowly, there will be calls for akmal inclusion again because he does score runs even though its not consistently.

[cricketfan]

Akmal is needed for the world twenty20!! Worry about the tour to England after that!

[Nawaz]

Originally Posted by cricketfan

Akmal is needed for the world twenty20!! Worry about the tour to England after that!

I take it your referring to his batting, if we can get in some decent openers we could get away with dropping him, remember his keeping costs us runs and key wickets.

[cricketfan]

Originally Posted by Nawaz

I take it your referring to his batting, if we can get in some decent openers we could get away with dropping him, remember his keeping costs us runs and key wickets.

But that the big question, decent openers!! We don't have anyone else! Akmal does score quickly! I would open him up with Nazir, drop farhat!

Safraz ahmed just cannot bat!! As for Akmals keeping, he generally does ok in the shorter form of the game, maybe his concentration levels are better compared to test matches where he does seem to wonder!

[Hatch]

sarfraz cant hit a ball if his life depended on it. i would love to get rid of akmal but we cant afford to drop him.

[legend]

I hate this bastard. I hate him and his brother. Pak cricket is not a family business

[Nawaz]

Pathetic batting performance, drop him its about time, he simply lacks consistency.

[[-Imran-]]

retard

[Gasherbrum]

this dipshit keeps getting caught at backward point/gully/3rd slip. in the 2nd test against australia, he was actually out twice in a couple of overs in the same bloody position. and in the first innings against england, he opened the face as if he was giving catching practice to the slips.
sure, the retard can play some good shots, but thats ok for T20, not test cricket. might as well get someone who can catch and average around 15-20 with the bat, which i'm sure sarfaraz or haider can manage.
we keep saying kaneria is shit, but this guy owes kaneria around 50 test wickets!

[sneeky]

this fucker hits a 50 and people forget about his shitty wicketkeeping... please drop this mofo! i dont care if umar akmal throws a fit and starts crying!

[legend]

he is sifarish b

[Invictus]

Someone in this thread mentioned "sarfraz cant hit a ball if his life depended on it" I wont mention their name, because I don't know it. But I like that chain of though. We should all go out and pay people to do jobs which they suck at but make sure they have a secondary skill that they are mildly good at. Lets go out and hire cabbies who suck at driving to drive our cabs but make sure they are good at counting change. Lets hire programmers who suck at programming but have good typing skills. Lets go out and eat at restaurants with bad cooks but make sure they have excellent dish washers. What a spectacular world that would be if we can make this happen.
But you all might ask so what man what does that have to do with cricket ? Well thinking along the same line we should get Sami in the team ASAP. He sucks at taking wickets but man can bat better then Gul or Asif heck both combined.
Those Australians were retards man playing Gilly at 7. That man was the greatest batsman/keeper ever. But he played at 7 all his career in test. Why the fuck didnt the australians had him play at 6 and played an extra bowler ? When they were dying for an all rounder and Gilly's numbers are legendary. Because they knew that keeping is a specialist position. Your keeper drives your fielding if he sucks your whole team will suffer. A dropped catch changes the whole game.
Screw all that think about this, when they talk about great keepers they have two main criteria s
1) Byes Given
2) Keeping against spinners.
Because its moptherfucking given that a keeper will catch. Not in Kamran's case. With this asshole we just pray that he catches thats how bad he has become. No one even mentions byes. And this guy doesnt even score. What the hell is his avg ? When was the last time he made runs ? If he is that great a batsman why don't we play him in top six ? If we just need a goal keeper who can catch sometimes but can bat then why isnt Younis keeping ? WTFFFFFFFFFF
Dammit just play a god dam keeper I don't care if he cant bat.

[Shakespeare]

[Gasherbrum]

invictus cheetah!
the guy can't even take the ball clean on most occasions. it keeps getting lodged somehow in his gloves. but he won't be dropped, it seems. he's the only man that has the ability to show character, after all these years of bullshit.
the only chance i see now is that moyo's recall might lead the management to believe they don't need this jackass to add further depth to the batting (by which i mean the ability to take the batting in to further depths). i hope that is the case, atleast the fucked up decision to recall moyo may lead to one good thing.

[Invictus]

I dont think he will be dropped man. I dont know what the fuck happened but this guy has a death grip on that position. He has gone through 6 captains that have been all loyal to him thats fucking 6 PAKISTANI captains. First of all its hard to find 6 Pakistani's loyal to anything in pakistan let alone in one team in a space of 7 years.
He is still in the team after Sydney. If Sydney happened to anyone, anyone on the face of this planet it would have killed their career for good. On top of that he defied the PCB in print.
Thats like someone who has been asked to take a leave of "absence" due to a fuck-up in a project showing up at the office party telling everyone to suck his balls and he will be in for work tomorrow.
After all that with pretty much the same PCB management he is the VC of the same fucking team. Then he fucks up another game in the space of like 6 months and have another captain come out and pretty much say he will play the next game with a fucking back-up keeper available.
This guy must suck a crazy dick man because it defies all logic.

[Gasherbrum]

dude, i'd put my money on his wonderful cocksucking ability if it weren't for those teeth. i mean, surely they must get in the way? maybe its his fat/cuddly buttocks?

[Shakespeare]

Originally Posted by Gasherbrum

dude, i'd put my money on his wonderful cocksucking ability if it weren't for those teeth. i mean, surely they must get in the way? maybe its his fat/cuddly buttocks?

[Nawaz]

It will be interesting to see whether akmal is retained for the odi series, his batting form has decreased significantly and thats the only reason he was kept in the side and if Zoni continues to impress makes sense to use him in all the formats.

[legend]

Originally Posted by Nawaz

It will be interesting to see whether akmal is retained for the odi series, his batting form has decreased significantly and thats the only reason he was kept in the side and if Zoni continues to impress makes sense to use him in all the formats.

totally agree brov.. he's 24.. hes only going to get better given that Akmal wasn't dropped after Sydney.

[Faisal]

if zoni continues to do well in tests then he should be given a chance over akmal in odi's and t20's unless you play akmal as a specialist batsman...i think not.

for test matches at least: akmal can fuck off.