Can anyone replace Inzi?

[The Legend]

I know this question is too old but i don't think so that anyone can replace Inzi's place. About Malik, He hasn't done better than Inzi. Inzi is great:) :inzi

[Luton Bad Boy]

Inzi in stature, gentleness, respect and dominating opposition is few and far between....

Inzi commanded respect from his team-mates and was the calming influence on the team..

As for Malik, he is uncertain in the test team yet, gets in due to being captain....that says it all..

Inzi, we miss you and hope you are enjoying your retirement.....

[Afridi_Fan]

No One

[Pak_mystery]

No one at all ... Infect at present no one is even close .... But i do hope someone does step up and take the responsibility of carryng pak along like how inzi did...

[Poison]

Nobody.
What a Hero. :D

[khilari]

"No" hands down

[Bublu Bhuyan]

I know this question is too old but i don't think so that anyone can replace Inzi's place. About Malik, He hasn't done better than Inzi. Inzi is great:) :inzi
May I try ? :happySwit

[Megadeth]

:inzi = with the cap he looks a lil too much like himesh reshammiya .. :))

[Sheikh]

Faisal Iqbal





Btw we really need a pic of Iqbal

[SwEeT CaNdY]

no one at all...Inzy was and will always remains Pakistans best batsman!

[Alam_dar]

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Misbah didn't let us Miss Inzi so much as we expected

Inzi may be the best batsman,...... but I must say Misbah has not let us miss Inzi so much as we earlier expected at time of retirement of Inzi.

Misbah has cover 80-85% place of Inzi for sure.

[Ghoshtbuster]

Inzi in stature, gentleness, respect and dominating opposition is few and far between....

Inzi commanded respect from his team-mates and was the calming influence on the team..

As for Malik, he is uncertain in the test team yet, gets in due to being captain....that says it all..

Inzi, we miss you and hope you are enjoying your retirement.....
I agree.

Although as far as Tests are concerned, Misbah has made the transition easier.

[desi_larka420]

Most people regard Inzamam as the best Pakistani batsmen but I think Saeed Anwar was way ahead of him........ just that Saeed never paid attention to his his fitness and thats what I believe made him fall short...........

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Most people regard Inzamam as the best Pakistani batsmen but I think Saeed Anwar was way ahead of him........ just that Saeed never paid attention to his his fitness and thats what I believe made him fall short...........
Anwar was much more classy in his shots than Inzy. But Inzy I believe played much more valuable knocks than Anwar did.

[Farhad]

Most people regard Inzamam as the best Pakistani batsmen but I think Saeed Anwar was way ahead of him........ just that Saeed never paid attention to his his fitness and thats what I believe made him fall short...........

Miandad was their daddy, and you will not find many who followed cricket in the '80s and yet don't regard him as the best we have ever produced. :miandad

[Ghoshtbuster]

Miandad was their daddy, and you will not find many who followed cricket in the '80s and yet don't regard him as the best we have ever produced.
I was too young to see Miandad play. What made him so great? I know about his average was never below 50 throughout his career, which is a great achievement especially at that time.

[McBoom]

Miandad was the master, one of the great qualities of his was he used to get the best out of his partner in crease. It was Miandad who was with Inzi in the semi final and was constantly giving him advice and taking singles giving him as much of the strike as possible. He used to exploit the field and together with Asif Iqbal they were one of the best runners between the wickets I have seen.

Both of them famously ran India ragged I think in the Hyderabad(pakistan) test chasing runs in a short amount of time in the 4th innings. :miandad

[Poison]

It was Miandad who was with Inzi in the semi final and was constantly giving him advice and taking singles giving him as much of the strike as possible. He used to exploit the field and together with Asif Iqbal they were one of the best runners between the wickets I have seen.



hold on, Inzamam and taking singles in the same sentence? :)))
:inzi :inzi what a legend anyways.
Only possible thought who could cover maybe 60% of Inzi's presence on the field is the New Hero Ul Haq.

[Savak]

Nope no one can replace Inzi. Inzi in my view was the greatest batsman to have ever played for Pakistan. The time he had facing the fast bowlers, the brutality with which he played the cut and pull shot, the brute force with which he would come down the track to the spinners and smash all their variations at their faces. A gentle giant. I quote the great Imran Khan "I have never ever seen anyone play fast bowling so effortlessly, so late and with so much of time and effort, the shots Inzamam can play, i have never ever seen such shots after Vir Richards departure from the game". Inzamam failed early on, but Imran was admanent for the things to come, he even threatened to resign in case the selectors refused to include Inzamam in his squad.

What a superlative ending avarage of 50. To have singlehandedly carried the teams batting for so many years and to have ended with a career average of 50 is just nothing short of brilliant. To play with the same aggression, same range of shots but to improve shot selection and playing ball to ball has been the hallmark of Inzi's career.

To be criticial, Inzi did not quite to justice to his talent, for a man blessed with such abilities he should have ended with an average of 60. He really underachieved, if only he had been a better runner between wickets and had been more serious about his fitness but you cant really complain against Inzi if you cant bat like him.

In my personal opinion Inzi would have been far better off as a normal player rather than captain. But to his credit, he did do his utmost to lead by example, who can ever forget his hundreds as captain, he really made up for his leadership, tactical shortcomings on the field through the bat in his hand and that really shows he really did try his best. I will never forget the amazing cricket our team played in Australia in Aus, India in India, one of the better performances by a Pakistani unit.

I was upset he and Shoaib Akhtar could never get along, when they did, Pak cricket was the winner, we saw in the Home Series win against Eng in 2005. Best to let bygones be bygones. Inzi please dont fade away into darkness, please improve your English and take up commentary, please write your autobiography, everyone would love to hear your side of the story.

A huge void. Inzi's match winning innings in comparison to Tendulkar, lara must never be forgotten by the Pakistani fans. An irreplacable loss.

[Ghoshtbuster]

To be criticial, Inzi did not quite to justice to his talent
I agree.

A true flawed genius. And I wouldnt change a thing.

[Wiji]

Hasan Raza. No jokes. The sooner he comes into the Test team, the better it will be for Pakistan.

[Ghoshtbuster]

Hasan Raza. No jokes. The sooner he comes into the Test team, the better it will be for Pakistan.
In place of who?

YK, Yousuf or Misbah? Nah.

[lollol]

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I was upset he and Shoaib Akhtar could never get along, when they did, Pak cricket was the winner, we saw in the Home Series win against Eng in 2005. Best to let bygones be bygones. Inzi please dont fade away into darkness, please improve your English and take up commentary, please write your autobiography, everyone would love to hear your side of the story.

...I dont think he can/will. He couldnt manage it after so many years of international cricket...

[mmkextreme_1]

Certainly no one replace the Inzi! He was the best under pressure, the guy was a true hero and great of Pakitan Cricket!

We would be happy if we can get someone half of his talent into the starting XI right now!

[Savak]

I dont think he can/will. He couldnt manage it after so many years of international cricket...

He will do it. There is so much money in commentary, i am sure he will make an effort to improve his english. There are many English training centres, like berlitz in karachi.

[Ghoshtbuster]

Inzi wont do commentary. He is into religious Tableeghi stuff now.

[cars112]

He is into religious Tableeghi stuff now.

Goes onto show he is perfect not just on the field. Not for him this money chasing nonsense at the cost of their dignity that some cricketers do after retiring. What a man.

[jaspa888]

They do not make batsmen like Inzi anymore. His attitude was that of an amateur, played with a true Corinthian spirit. Anyone who met him would know that while he came from humble origins, he would gladly have played for nothing due to his love of the game.

It is this amateur approach to his career that was often mistaken as unprofessionalism. He played the game for fun, and 'little' things like diet, fitness and training merely got in the way...

It is a testiment to the true natural genius of the man that many consider his career to be a wasted talent, despite a test average of 50. I saw him to do things that I had never seen from a Pak batsmen previously, and his best innings were often when the team really required it, often with very little support from the other end - the true sign of a fighter. He could play against all types of attacks, on all kinds of pitches.

Of course he had his weaknesses. He was not a natural leader, prefering to be one of the lads. This, coupled with lack of tactical savvy, meant that he was a poor captain. His man management skills were lacking, but again that was due to his natural lack of assertiveness.

Batsmen like Inzi come along once in a generation. We have been spoiled by the likes of MoYo, YK and Anwer over the last 20 years. We are probably not due another one for a while...

[Ghoshtbuster]

As a Pak fan, a scorecard of 30/3 with Inzi in the middle is a totally different scorecard than that which is 30/3 with Inzi back in the pavillion. That value cannot be quantified, and I dont think we currently have a batsman who has that effect on the game - just by his sheer presence.

[Wiji]

In place of who?

YK, Yousuf or Misbah? Nah.

Instead of Malik perhaps. Younis can open with Butt. Raza is too good for domestic cricket. What's going to happen if one our batsman is to get a lengthy injury?

[salman24]

Nope

[Kriketer]

We never got as good of an all rounder as Imran Khan.
We never got as good of an opener as Saeed Anwar.
We never got as good of a bolwer as Waseem Akram.

.....so I guess we would never get as good of a Mr. dependable and best finisher as Inzy.

[Poison]

Inzi wont do commentary.


He has to do commentary. Imagine him and Waqar commentating at the same time hahahahah. But seeing as though he was always 'slightly lacking' in English skills, the racists wont give him a shot:(

:inzi

[Sheikh]

I was too young to see Miandad play. What made him so great? I know about his average was never below 50 throughout his career, which is a great achievement especially at that time.
The epitome of the ''Karachi streetfighter''. No one was more up for a scrap, no one put up more of a fight, no one was more of a nuisance to the opposition as Miandad was. He was overawed by no one, believed in himself and in his ability to dominate the opposition by virtue of his sheer presence at the crease.

He had an appetite for big scores, for batting, for forging partnerships and being a part of large totals.

His technique wasn't the best and he may not have had the widest array of stokes, but he could place the ball in any gap he wanted and at a pace where he decided whether he wanted 1, 2, 3, or 4. He was one of the best runners I've ever seen and definitely the best judge of a run I've ever seen.

A fantastic reader of the game, and arguably even cooler than inzi in a run chase. A truly world class batsman if there ever was one.

As much as I love Inzi, Javed was a notch above him.

[omidahomie]

Faisal Iqbal