Yousuf out, Younis in for national team

Yousuf out, Younis in for national team

LAHORE: Test Cricketer Muhammed Yousuf is not on cards to be included in national squad to play series against South Africa owing to injury, Geo News reported Wednesday.

Meantime, former captain of national cricket team, Muhammed Younis met Ijaz But, chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), raising the expectations that he would be included in the squad to be selected for South Africa series.

It should be mentioned here that Yousuf is not attending the training session for fitness problems.

So popular yet so neglected

A brand so popular in the norms, but neglected in its scheduling and marketing affairs, which is pathetic

Today is the final of Pakistan's domestic T20 Tournament, which has caught hold of the nation like a viral fever, although hype was already created by airing them on TV but fingers should be pointed on marketing side of the PCB, who instead of encashing this tournament which is a successful package in Pakistan, by investing more money more sponsors so that like Australia's big bash is aired all around the world with creating their own standards similarly we can do the same.

By such tournaments we can convey a message to the world that Pakistan isn't that much dangerous to be left out. Although it'll take time but such tournaments do create a space for lobbying for the country, like again I should mention about the Australian Domestic Tournaments, which is known world wide.

I was watching the highlights today of some of the matches as I missed many matches thanks to my hectic day schedule, I once thought while watching the matches that why can't Pakistan taking this opportunity to promote its domestic teams internationally, so that it would help the Pakistani team improve in selection of new players and so associations don't have the leaf of bragging about injustice in selection of players, just like before the start of the tournament, head of Sialkot region was bragging about not selection of Shoaib Malik WHO'S SO THIS AND THAT... This thing should be stopped by investing more money into the domestic circuit so that everyone sees it, and with domestic players playing internationally, it'll help raise the standard of domestic games in Pakistan. Can't they think like that? When it'd be known internationally, can't they think how much money they'd be generating FROM THEIR DOMESTIC GAMES?

They showed us how the cricket BE played!!!

Credit must be given to Bangladeshis for giving up a good show and showing us that a game consisting of Bangladesh is not a boring game anymore...

Credit must be given to the brave Bangladeshi cricket team for showing a courageous show on the field against the Kiwis, winning the series 3-0 in the fourth one day international played at Mirpur. For me, the main reason for having this a important milestone in international cricket is that unlike previous Bangladesh's matches, the marketing aspects of their series' didn't worth as much as India, Pakistan, Australia, England, Sri Lanka worth. Even at the start of this series, Kiwis were thought as the favourites for this series, as they already had a series win against Pakistan in the UAE...

The Bangladeshi's really showed the cricket world how the current cricket should be played, competitive and a game which could be anyone's at anytime, unlike a one sided game or a series, which could be and is proving to be a problem being faced by the modern cricket these days i.e. so called useless games in which a stronger opponent thrashes a weaker minnow by a hefty margin and etc...

I suppose and believe this is the first time since their inception into international cricket, they've gained such a series lead against a major test playing team in one day internationals, and so this has literally generated this thought that cricket is literally unpredictible and a funny game, and that too is the essence of this beautiful game. The importance of Pakistan cricket team in modern cricket is just because of the above mentioned reason, and that's the same reason the ICC is bearing Pakistan cricket board, although they've transparency and system problems, because of which, non-deserving people on the helm of affairs of Pakistani cricket are now incharge of it, and although Pakistan suffers the problem of corruption and martyr of merit standards in selection of those people who'd be running the affairs in Pakistan cricket, still ICC HAS to bear it, because Pakistan gives cricketing world an essence of as I mentioned earlier unpredictablity, it could either thrash someone bigger than its own size, else will be thrashed by someone minnow...

Lets see, how the ICC tackle the current funny situation in Pakistani and International Cricket where minnows have started to show tough times to the big teams already...

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Future of Test matches

Test match series' need to be result oriented in order to get interest in this format of the game!

There must be the need of revitalizing test match cricket across the globe between 10 top test match playing nations, so that they can/could be the role model for associates to follow...

For the same purpose, first we should look into the matter why test match cricket lost its importance in the passionate cricket lover countries in the globe, namely Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to name some, as cricket in this region is followed with great passion and spirit, but the crowd and television ratings for test match cricket in South Asia compared to One Days and T20 cricket is very low, resulting in low attendance in the test match cricket as the main reason is that the duration of test cricket and after that even if one buys a ticket for a test match being played at National Stadium Karachi, Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi or SSC Colombo, after watching the game for almost five day without a result will surely divert the spectators away from test matches, so steps should be taken to breathe new life into this format by executing such steps that would allow to games end in definite result, if you take my personal opinion I'd suggest that just like a tie game in T20 match is given a result by a Super Over, similarly such type of execuation should be taken place at the time when on the fifth day a match is called off as a draw with the consensus of both teams' skippers, at that time they should execute a super over sorta thing, so that a possible result at the end of the match is achievable.

Plus just like ODI and T20 formats have Champions Trophy, Cricket World Cup and World T20 Championships, similarly a tournament comprises of world top 6 test match rating teams should participate so that there's a sense of competition among the teams to keep their ratings into top 6 test match teams, and they(the test match teams) should not play test matches just for formality (read recently concluded Sri Lanka v India Micromax test series 2010 in Sri Lanka).

Plus the number of games allotted for test matches should be increased with minussing the aspect of saving a test match with a draw and it should be discouraged among the teams... If you ask me minimum of 20 to 25 days of test match cricket in a bilateral series between two full member teams to be encouraged!!!

I may be wrong in my assessments so will be waiting for your feedback on these suggestions...

Peace!!

India v Australia Series 2010