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31st March 2005, 23:30
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Younis Khan doubtful for first ODI
Unwell Younis Khan doubtful for Cochin ODI
From our correspondent COCHIN, India: Younis Khan, who plundered scores of 267 and 84 not out in Pakistan’s Test victory in Bangalore and totalled 508 runs at 101.60 in the Test series, is running high fever and there is concern if he would be fit in time for the first One-day International here on Saturday (tomorrow). Manager Saleem Altaf said Younis had been running a high temperature of around 102 and 103 since Wednesday and soon after the team reached the city this afternoon, he was taken to hospital for tests. "Today he was again running a temperature and we are concerned and want to know what is wrong with him. The temperature goes down and then rises again," he said. Younis himself was clearly weak from the fever but said he was confident he could recover in time for the first one-dayer. "Hopefully the tests results will be known today and after getting medication I should be okay in a day’s time as I’m really looking forward to playing in the first one-dayer," he said. Younis also didn’t come to the ground in Hyderabad on Wednesday during the practice match and rested at the hotel. Team sources said Younis had been in high spirits during the dinner hosted by the in-laws of Shoaib Malik at their residence in Hyderabad on Tuesday night but since then had started running temperature. "Perhaps the Hyderabadi dishes didn’t suit him," one of his teammates joked. The Pakistan vice captain has come in for special praise from the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly on Thursday who wrote in his column that Younis and Virender Sehwag had batted like champions in the Test series. Both of them were the only batsmen to score 500 runs in the three Tests. "For Pakistan, Younis Khan’s batting was a revelation. He showed tremendous application and was prepared to stay at the wicket," Ganguly wrote. "And Mohammad Sami got better and better with every game," he added. Altaf said the rest of the players were in fine spirits and had been given a day off on Thursday to relax and unwind. "We’ll be having nets tomorrow and then it is the start of another tough series for us and hopefully the boys will again show complete application and concentration toward the job," he said. ---------- Team sources said Younis had been in high spirits during the dinner hosted by the in-laws of Shoaib Malik at their residence in Hyderabad on Tuesday night but since then had started running temperature. "Perhaps the Hyderabadi dishes didn’t suit him," one of his teammates joked.  A joke on this comes to mind...
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#3
31st March 2005, 23:36
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This is real news not April fool stuff (though does sound like it !)
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/apr20.../sports/s4.htm
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#4
31st March 2005, 23:41
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Believing Jang news is the same thing as being an april fool.
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#10
1st April 2005, 05:32
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the only way to fit in yk is at number three with malik coming in as opener
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#11
1st April 2005, 06:22
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oh well we have just 1 passenger in hafeez then instead of 2
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#12
1st April 2005, 07:48
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there is no place for him in the ODI TEAM !
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1st April 2005, 07:52
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1st April 2005, 08:13
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i suggest you look at his ****** poor odi record!
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1st April 2005, 08:16
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He was the "weakest link" in the Tests, hes changed and taken more responsibility since he came 2 India.
I suggest we c wot happens 2moro hoping hes still in the side.
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#16
1st April 2005, 08:19
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Mat I NO Runs HS1 HS2 HS3 Ave 100 50 0
overall 111 106 14 2914 144 90 87* 31.67 1 20 8 v Australia 11 11 1 158 56* 23 19 15.80 0 1 2 v Bangladesh 10 10 3 349 73 66* 59* 49.85 0 3 0 v England 7 7 1 128 63 41 10* 21.33 0 1 2 v Hong Kong 1 1 0 144 144 - - 144.00 1 0 0 v India 11 11 0 220 46 44 36 20.00 0 0 3 v Kenya 2 2 1 123 87* 36 - 123.00 0 1 0 v Namibia 1 1 0 28 28 - - 28.00 0 0 0 v Netherlands 1 0 - - - - - - - - - v New Zealand 10 8 2 306 70* 70 69 51.00 0 4 0 v South Africa 18 18 1 370 72 48 41 21.76 0 1 1 v Sri Lanka 21 20 3 571 66 59 57* 33.58 0 4 0 v West Indies 7 7 0 111 31 23 18 15.85 0 0 0 v Zimbabwe 11 10 2 406 90 77 67 50.75 0 5 0 barring sri lanka and new zealand his records laughable...
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#17
1st April 2005, 08:25
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Amjid, you said the same about his TEST record.
We should play our best batsmen and Younis is one of them. Butt, Malik, Younis, Inzamam, Youhana followed by Razzaq, Afridi and Kamran should be our batting lineup.
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#18
1st April 2005, 08:27
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recent form
last ten odis (under miandad) v s.africa - 19,41,9,13,24 v india - 46,28,18,36,12 under woolmer v bang - 18,16* v hk - 144 v sri lanka - 1 v india - 0,4 v Aus - 6 v zim - 77 YK has scored two knocks off note v the mighty HK and zimbabwe..... YK is only in ODI side due to fact hes had a good test series!
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#19
1st April 2005, 08:31
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Well hes got 2 b tried, if he wasnt and sum other player performed badly, then there wud have been comments saying he shud have played. U can neve b happy.
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1st April 2005, 08:34
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1st April 2005, 09:16
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amjid- he will come good - needs a fixed role in odi's - e.g. no 3
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1st April 2005, 09:20
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yeah...! ive heard that excuse that b4!
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#23
1st April 2005, 09:21
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The guys played 111, how many chances do u want him to have?
there are better odi players not in the team!
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1st April 2005, 09:25
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AJ - i agree there are better, younger players there - but yk i would like being given a run at one position
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#25
1st April 2005, 09:35
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younis khan is in superb form..ofcourse he should be in the the odi team...especially bearing in mind
he is futre captain material and is the present vice captain. his average is already comparable to some of the best captains to have ever played one day cricket...judge him after he has played arnd 25 one dayers then see if he has played a few more match winning innings against better oppositions.... look at steve waugh's record, Steve Waugh Full Name: Stephen Rodger Waugh Born: 2 June 1965, Canterbury, Sydney, New South Wales Major Teams: Australia, New South Wales, Somerset, Kent, Ireland, Kent. ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS (career) M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 325 288 58 7569 120* 32.90 75.91 3 45 111 0
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1st April 2005, 09:44
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AJ, i was also very critical of YK. but he proved us wrong. ok i agree and all the rest also that his one day record is pathetic BUT he showed in test matches that he is enough batting talent to be a classy number 3 in one dayers also. u cant drop a guy who has just scored over 500 runs in 3test matches. actually 300+ in 1 test.
Malik is also quality one day batsman and he can open the innings. he is too good for that also. i m sure he will adjust there and wont have any prbs INSHALLAH. 1. Salman 2. Malik 3. YK (obviously if he is fit) 4. Inzi 5. Yo Yo 6. Abdul 7. Afridi 8. Kami 9. Sami 10. Rana 11. Nazir/ Kaneria no need for Hafeez. Salman and YK can bowl some overs if needed. if YK is unfit i will bring Asim at 6 . and Inzi or Yo Yo can come one down. or Abdul.
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#29
1st April 2005, 09:57
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S waugh was one off best odi all rounders in world in mid 90s... to compare him to useless khan is comical! YK 31 ave on paper looks great why dont u break it down v oppostion! (minnow basher)
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#30
1st April 2005, 09:59
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hope every reads all that sentence!
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1st April 2005, 10:00
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amjid - dont bash the guy - or actually do bash him - he may smash a hundred now
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1st April 2005, 10:02
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good i hope he scores 500 runs in ODI series...
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1st April 2005, 10:02
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Yeh Amjid do ur best bash him...he'll get a century and then u can go in2 hiding
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1st April 2005, 10:05
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Pakistan vice-captain Younis Khan will miss Saturday's opening one-day game against India with a fever.
"Younis is still very weak. It will be difficult for him to play," captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said on Friday. "It will give the other boys a chance. I'm sure they will try to make sure we don't miss him." Pakistan have held the upper hand over India in recent times, having won the last four one-day games, including a six-wicket success last November. And the visitors are coming off a confidence-boosting win in the third Test which levelled the three-match series 1-1. The one-dayers are a different ball game India captain Sourav Ganguly Younis scored a career-best 267 in Bangalore to take his series tally to 508 runs at an average of 101.60. "Younis was in great form and his presence would certainly have helped the team," added Inzamam. "But injuries are part and parcel of the game." Younis's absence could herald a return for Salman Butt, who scored 70 in Pakistan's eight-wicket win over India A in a warm-up in Hyderabad on Wednesday. India captain Sourav Ganguly will be hoping his fortunes with the bat change in the limited-overs matches after a relatively poor Test campaign. "The important thing is to get some runs under the belt. If I play well the runs will come," said the left-hander, who is 86 runs away from becoming only the third batsman to score 10,000 one-day runs. "Pakistan may have drawn the Test series with exceptional cricket, but the one-dayers are a different ball game and we are confident of doing well. "We have happy memories of this ground after beating Australia and South Africa here in the past. "It is always great cricket when India meets Pakistan and I am sure the same will happen again. It should be a treat for fans." Ganguly will bat at number three behind Sachin Tendulkar and and Virender Sehwag. "It is a batting order that has done well in the past and there is no reason why we can't do it again," added Ganguly
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1st April 2005, 10:07
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i said yk is in form of his life..the guy has just averaged arnd 100 in three match test series... yk has played 111 matches as opposed to 300 odd that steve waugh has played...which means yk theoretically has 200 odd games to make his mark as captain and player... amjad, finally and most importantly...steve waugh was crap in his first 150 odd games..this is well known..he made his debut in the eigties and the selectors persisted with him...the selectors identified him as captaincy material and they persisted with him and in the end it paid of handsomely. steve waugh was as much a hard worker as younis khan is now..he had many technical faults including against the short ball...however he over came all of that and is now known as a legend...
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#36
1st April 2005, 10:12
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2ndly if he scores a ton good for him as it benefits pakistan!
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1st April 2005, 10:14
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i was joking btw - and ofcourse it benefits pak - i dont care who gets runs just as long as we win
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1st April 2005, 10:14
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IMMY, if YK ends up half as good as Steve waugh was in 2nd half of his career i will be happy.
however just like in tests its time for YK to turn potential into results!
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#39
1st April 2005, 10:15
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sorry 2 anger u but tht wasnt my intention.
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#40
1st April 2005, 10:19
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im chilled out....
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1st April 2005, 10:31
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aj, time will only tell...
but i am glad he is in the mix as are other young talented batters like shoiab malik, hasan reza, hameed etc etc etc..because sooner rather then later inzy will have retire unless he goes until he is 40!
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1st April 2005, 10:34
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Id like 2 see hasan razza back in the team soon, i have alot off time for solid battling batsmen like asim kamal and hasan raza... we need more players like this in are test team.
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1st April 2005, 10:38
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i agree, but hasan raza will have to wait at the minute
yk has 3 sewn up inzi at 4 yoyo at 5 kamal at 6 looks like he will battle yoyo/kamal inzi is gonna miss first test - hameed may slot into middle order but i agree with u - a solid batter like a hasan raza or sufyan munir should at least be in the squad
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#45
1st April 2005, 10:44
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Younis blow for Pakistan ahead of India one-dayers
COCHIN, India (AFP) - Pakistan suffered a setback before the opening one-day international against India when in-form batsman Younis Khan was ruled out due to chest infection and fever.
The vice-captain, who hit 267 and 84 not out to lift Pakistan to a series-levelling win in the third and final Test in Bangalore on Monday, has been confined to bed for three days, captain Inzamam-ul Haq said on Friday."He is very weak. It is very difficult for him to play," Inzamam told reporters after both teams had nets at the Nehru stadium in this southern coastal town. A sell-out crowd of 75,000 is expected to watch the match, the first of six one-dayers on Pakistan's first full tour of India in six years. "We were sold out days ago. It will be a packed house," said Karunakaran Nair, secretary of the Indian cricket board and a key official of the local Kerala association. A high-scoring thriller is on the cards since bowlers will struggle to contain runs on the flat wicket in stifling heat and humidity. "These conditions do not suit a fast bowler, or for that matter, any kind of bowler," Inzamam said. "The wicket looks full of runs." Inzamam said his team was high on morale after the brilliant Test victory in Bangalore, but warned against being complacent. "We cannot carry our win in Bangalore to Cochin. It is a new game and we start from the beginning," he said. "It is difficult to hazard a guess how the one-dayers will go. But I can safely say that India found it hard to combat us in the Tests, their job will be even harder in the shorter version of the game." Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, under fire from fans and former players due to his poor form with the bat, hoped his luck will change in the one-day series. The left-hander is 64 runs away from becoming only the third batsman after compatriot Sachin Tendulkar (13,497) and Inzamam (10,631) to score 10,000 one-day runs, but he was not thinking about the landmark yet. "The important thing is to get some runs under the belt," said Ganguly. "If 7I play well the runs will come. "Pakistan may have drawn the Test series with exceptional cricket, but the one-dayers are a different ball game and we are confident of doing well. "We have happy memories of this ground after beating Australia and South Africa here in the past. "It is always great cricket when India meets Pakistan and I am sure the same will happen again. It should be a treat for fans." Ganguly said he will bat at number three behind Tendulkar and the explosive Virender Sehwag, with Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif to follow. "It is a batting order that has done well in the past and there is no reason why we can't do it again," said Ganguly. India (from): Sourav Ganguly (capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Kaif, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Mongia, Mahender Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Laxmipathy Balaji, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra. Pakistan (from): Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Yousuf Youhana, Asim Kamal, Kamran Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Nazir, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad Sami, Rao Iftikhar, Danish Kaneria, Arshad Khan, Shoaib Malik Source Yahoo Sports
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#46
1st April 2005, 10:45
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yasir hameed shud open with salman butt and they shud be given 3 series to try and establish themselves...
1 v west indies, 1 v england, 1 v india...
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#48
1st April 2005, 10:47
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likely side now
butt akmal s malik inzi yoyo m hafeez razzaq afridi rana sami s nazir/rao
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#50
1st April 2005, 10:49
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INSHALLAH yk will gain full health. ameen
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#53
1st April 2005, 10:51
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that is a good idea - then have a fixed no 3 be it malik or yk
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#54
1st April 2005, 10:52
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#55
1st April 2005, 10:57
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ameen.
If Hafeez HAS to play then... Salman BUTT Kamran AKMAL Shoaib MALIK INZAMAM ul Haq Yousuf YOUHANA Abdur RAZZAQ Shahid AFRIDI RANA Naveed ul Hassan Mohammed SAMI Shahid NAZIR Mohammed HAFEEZ If he bats at 11 and it is such a good batting track I'm sure the other batters will survive the 50 overs and we wont have the displeasure of havnig Hafeez on our TV screens trying to imitate a batsman.
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#56
1st April 2005, 10:59
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i think hafeez has to play - possibly have him at 6 or 8
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#57
1st April 2005, 11:05
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hopefully hafeez has to go home for some reason...
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#58
1st April 2005, 11:06
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oh guys just forget abt upcoming test matches. get into some one day mood.
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 i cud have seen it in normal font size also  . but nice to know u r saying that YK deserves to be in ODI side. so no more debate guys. just hope for the best for our Team
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#59
1st April 2005, 11:11
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now the only question remains about the last bowler, would it be arshad or rao? bcoz of the stifling heat and humidity, pak might just play 4 fast bowlers so that none of them have to complete their quota of overs.
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#60
1st April 2005, 11:55
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Younis is still not fit according to BW's site which would mean he misses out tomorrow.
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