Hope and half a team
Up in the air: Apart from injury concerns the possibility of Umar Gul’s teaming up with Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif appears to be a chimera
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Osman Samiuddin
While the rest of the world was calmly pondering one or two positions in their World Cup squads, Pakistan was mulling over half a squad. Seven names could be guessed before the announcement but the rest? Injuries, doping, form all had the PCB delaying the announcement all through the afternoon.
So first the less bad news: Pakistan have managed to cobble together a squad of 15 and within the ICC deadline too. Now the bad news, of which there is some.
Pakistan’s success in the Caribbean was always to rest, in large parts, on their pace attack. But like the legend of India’s spin quartet, who only played one Test together, the strength of […]
Original post by Nishi Narayanan and software by Elliott
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