We scoured the internet to find a picture of Azhar Ali and Umar Amin - effectively the two replacements for Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf at numbers three and four in the Pakistan batting order playing against Australia at Lord's.
This was the only picture we could come up with.
I suppose it is hardly surprising then that both debutants looked a little bit out of their comfort zone against world class bowlers on a seam friendly track. As Alan Hansen once said "you won't win anything with kids".
Only Pakistan could ban their best batsman (Younis) indefinitely, then lift the ban and not pick him for the touring squad. But to then compound the situation and suspend Shoaib Mailk, rescind his ban and pick him for the squad, but then not select him for the XI is an interesting decision to say the least. We wonder where Yousuf stands on his 'retirement' now if he is watching the action?
Ha ha so true! Great pic also.
Posted by: Wes ~PFCNFS~ | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 14:36