I am a great admirer of Imran Khan. His achievements are un paralleled and he has done for the nation some extremely important things by bringing the World Cup to Pakistan in 1992 and then by building a cancer hospital for the under privileged.
A couple of days back I was seeing Imran give an interview and I must say that I hate to dis agree with him on two accounts. His support for Sami seems to escape my logic and his backing for Yunis khan is also extremely shocking. I have already written about Yunis twice in my previous postings, so I will give that subject a little rest and focus mainly on Sami. Mohammad Sami has had a miserable test career and some how he is still very much liked by the great Khan. Imran said that Sami reminds him of Malcolm Marshall. That comparison makes absolutely no sense at all. The later, a world class bowler who terrorized all the greats of his era and the former whose average (47) is close to Inzamam’s batting average are in reality a league apart. Mohammad Sami has pace and may even be able to skid the ball, but I think Inzamam got it all right when he said in a show aired on a Pakistani channel that “Sami does not have the art of taking wickets”. Has Pakistan bowling standards become this low that a person who does not know “where to bowl to a batsman” (another quote from Inzamam) gets repeatedly selected in the side? Malcolm Marshall was able to bag the Man of the series award six times in his career. Please remember that this was during the times of Sir Viv, Holding, Garner and others. Sami has been man of the match only once so far!
Mohammad Sami is a huge failure and in sticking with Sami, Pakistan has once again shown very little application in the area of team selection.
Sami’s Test Career:
Matches: 30
Avg : 47.87
Marshall:
Matches: 81
Avg : 20.94
Pakistan has suffered most by the doings of their own selectors, and Sami is a prime example of such a failure. Will PCB rectify this problem? Will Sami still be in the Pakistani side? Will we see Yunis tossing the coin in the next series? Will Pakistan play regular openers? Has PCB learnt it’s lesson? Like always, we can only pray.
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Shame! Shame! Shame on you Dada! How can you even try to compare Marshall and Sami? I don't care even if it was Imran Khan who said that but man you should not bring such topics to life by writing about them. Everyone knows Sami has had his chance so it is time for him to go, either into oblivion or back to the nets, which is upto Sami. Yes he bowled well in the WC but two games don't make you a box-office ticket Mr. Sami. As far as the PCB is concerned we all know it is run by a bunch of retired army personnel who have no clue how to manage people or about cricket! Much like how the current government is handling the affairs but that is a completely other thing but it reflects in how things are run in this part of the world.
the best thing for PCB to do is to give Sami the captaincy ... maybe his captaincy will remind imran of lloyd :p
rehan is right, you have now reminded over a million readers of yours about sami, including naseem ashraf .... what were you thinking?!? :o
How long till we have a pic of Sami and the Khan in a pool?
i don't know ... perhaps he'll wait for the woolmer murder investigation to be over
assalamolekum
In Sami's defence, he was the only bowler who gave us even an outside chance of beating Ireland and if we had won that game, I am sure Sami would have been the hero. A wise man once said "There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics". Does Tendulkar's superior test record make him better than Inzamam ? I dont think so.
are we being serious here Mr. Irfan. Are you telling me that, all jokes aside, Inzi was better than Tendulkar? I am not sure if I can even come close to responding this question, because the question has left me baffled as to my esteemed colleague's whereabouts in the last 17 years or so. Anyone who has been watching cricket would say otherwise, not based on statistics alone, but also based on flair, talent, and charisma (even though charisma is a close-call)
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