http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292 backs Kamran Akmal for wicketkeeping role – ICC World Cup 2011 news
Former captain Wasim Akram has backed Kamran Akmal for the wicketkeeping role despite his disappointing performance against New Zealand which cost http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 the match.
Pakistan team management is looking into the option of handing over the job to Kamran’s younger brother http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Green-c60723 may rue the decision in the end.
“I hear the team management is toying with the idea of asking Umar Akmal to keep wickets instead of Kamran. If that happens, Pakistan will make a blunder,” said Akram on Wednesday while talking to media reporters. “As the cliche goes, two
wrongs don't make a right. In my book, wicket-keeping is a specialist's job, and Kamran is the only one we have in the squad.”
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915’s chances. Taylor went on to score an unbeaten 131 hitting 7 sixes and
8 boundaries as the Black Caps posted a colossal total of 302 in their 50 overs.
Pakistan captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, had hinted that they might try Umar Akmal with gloves in the next game. However, Akram, a former captain and mentor of many Pakistan cricketers
said that keeping the wickets is a tough job and only an experienced wicketkeeper should be given the role and not a ‘part-timer’.
Wasim further added that Umar Akmal- a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, who is also struggling with the bat in the mega event- does not have any experience of keeping wickets at the international level and he cannot be used to cover up
the mistakes of a specialist wicketkeeper.
This was not the first time that Kamran missed the chances in the ongoing World Cup. Earlier he had missed two chances of stumping http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 captain Kumar Sangakkara in the closely contested game between the two Asian cricketing giants.
Akram, who is also commentating the mega event from the Subcontinent battlefields, said that the 110-run thrashing at the hands of Kiwis has exposed the weaknesses of Pakistan team and reckoned Afridi's captaincy as ‘erroneous’.
He said that the toss undoubtedly plays crucial role in determining the outcome of game but relying heavily on it was wrong. He added that the Afridi-led side was 70 per cent dependent on the toss and after losing it, their body language
was negative which was quite shocking.
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