SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Saeed Ajmal was banned by the ICC for illegal deliveries. He worked his heart out to get the ban lifted, bowling over 12,000 deliveries in three months, possibly more than he had in five years. When he was cleared he was not named on the side because “he was short of match practice”, according to Misbah. Under pressure by Saeed Ajmal and Hafeez in the middle overs, it is not nuclear science to learn that batsmen tend to take chances against Afridi’s bowling. Without that pressure, Afridi is presently hard put to take wickets.
Among those Pakistani cricketers scoring the maximum ODI runs in 2013 and 2014, Fawad Alam’s left arm spin gives the bowling attack additional variation. He seems to have fallen out of favour the moment Waqar Younis took over as coach. Has this anything to do with Waqar’s reported tenseness with Intikhab Alam, Fawad’s father, when he was the team coach? On the other hand there is no doubt that Waqar Younis has developed our present pace attack into a lethal force; we have seen that to amazing effect against Zimbabwe and the South Africans. Can you imagine what we would be with Muhammad Amir and Junaid Khan as options in the firing line alongwith the present battery?
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