Umar Amin's appointment as captain for the "A" Team to face up to the world's top ranked Test side, South Africa should be lauded  as a move in the right direction.

Do you think Batsmen can win you matches single-handedly?

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Four years ago on this date, India and Pakistan met at Centurion in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Recetly Younis Khan become Pakistan's fourth batsman to cross the 7000 runs Test mark after Javed Miandad , Inazamam ul Haq and Mohammed Yousuf.

Who would be the next in line to achieve the 7000 mark?

-Azhar Ali

-Asad Shafiq

-Taufeeq Umar

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PakPassion's correspondent attended the ongoing Emerging Players Programe to see which players were looking to impress the coaches ahead of the squad selection for the South Africa series.

It wasn't looking good for Hafeez and Razzaq when they turned up for a training camp at NCA in Lahore.

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Take a look at Pakistan's batsman and their performances after the Zimbabwe series. 

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He turns 36 today.

Having made his first class debut in 1996, Farhan Adil was a familiar face at the domestic level, representing Karachi and Habib Bank on numerous occasions. Nearly a decade ago, at the age of 26, Farhan Adil finally got a chance to make his Test debut against Bangladesh at Multan - the same Test in which Inzamam's heroics brought Pakistan to an unlikely victory by one wicket.

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Which player do you think would perform better at home turf?

For somebody who is widely recognized as Pakistan's captain-in waiting, Mohammad Hafeez seems to have little regard for how his consistent failures are damaging not only the standard but more importantly, the balance of a reasonably stable test team - From "There is nothing wrong with my technique" to "Lack of test cricket has affected my performance" - the captain-elect continuously chooses to deflect the real problem, which is, he just doesn't fit in the test team. 

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