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Openers not the only nemesis....Wicket Keeping Dilema too...
After the departure of Aamir Sohail and Saeed Anwar from International Cricket we hare faced huge problems in the opening slot in all forms of the game specially tests......Opening problem is duly highlighted world over infact I read on cricinfo recently that Pakistan being the only internation test team with so much long standing opening problems and probably Pakistan is the only team to try out so much opening combination in the last 12 years or so (some sort of world record)
But after the departure of Rashif Latif and Moin Khan we are also facing the dilema and nemesis of the Wicket Keeping slot.....as Kamran Akmal is not the natural wicket keeper....I have read an interview of Kamran Akmal that he used to be a proper batsman still he reached 15 years age... At the age of 15 years he realized that to have some sort of career in cricket he has to do wicket keeping and then started practising wicket keeping....after he succeed with the bat which any Pakistani keeper in the history never had...he was praised as the No. 1 wicket keeping choice......
Akmal is not a natural wicket keeper like Rashid Latif....I think its high time we should hand this job to a natural wicket keeper like Sarfaraz who can convert half chances into sure catches and increase bowller's confidence while bowlling....and let the speciallist batsman do their job...
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