‘Time for new players to stand up’

Lahore: Pakistan cricket captain Misbahul Haq urged his team’s new talent to take advantage of the tour of Zimbabwe to rebuild the crisis-hit national side.

A new-look Pakistan play a two-day practice match in Bulawayo from August 28, then a Test at the same venue from September 1. They also play three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20s on the tour.

Misbah will lead Pakistan in all three formats of the game after Shahid Afridi retired when he was dumped as ODI captain two months ago. Misbah said the new players must take their chances.

‘Chance to shine’

“All the new players who have taken the place of the seniors have performed at domestic level and this tour of Zimbabwe will give the

m a chance to show their ability at an international level,” Misbah told a press conference.

Pakistan have surprisingly rested pacemen Wahab Riaz and Umar Gul, and dropped Tanvir Ahmed. The selectors recalled Sohail Tanvir and Sohail Khan, and included fast-bowlers Junaid Khan and uncapped Aizaz Cheema.

Left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman, Pakistan’s successful bowler in the West Indies on their last tour, is also rested in favour of uncapped leg-spinner Yasir Shah.

“After a long time a number of seniors have left together, so every team comes across such times and then replacements are found by trying out some new players who can play like those seniors,” said Misbah.

Senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf lost favour with the selectors, while wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal, former captain Shoaib Malik and seasoned leg-spinner Danish Kaneria were left out over fixing suspicions.

Showing respect to the opponents

Meanwhile, Misbah denied Pakistan were not taking Zimbabwe seriously.

“We are not taking any team lightly. If we relax then we are in trouble and by giving chances to youngsters we are not experimenting because all these young players have come into the team on merit.”

Pakistan fly out to Zimbabwe on August 25.

On their return to Test cricket after five years, Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh in the only Test and are 2-0 ahead in the ongoing five-match ODI series.

After the tour of Zimbabwe, Pakistan play Sri Lanka in three Tests, five ODIs and one Twenty20 match in the United Arab Emirates in October and November.

Umar Gul

“I’ve increased my training and giving my best to regain the rhythm. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance against Sri Lanka and England. I feel I can serve the country for many years. Temporary setbacks come but one has to overcome them by positive thinking.”

Ahmed Shahzad

“It’s always difficult to make a comeback because you have to work twice as hard. I’m hopeful that I’ll get my place back after a good do

mestic season. I didn’t breach discipline. If that’s the case, I want to ask the PCB to tell me where I was wrong

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bowlers who did hatrick in test cricket..

cricket basically become the game of batsmen in these days & also peoples enjoy when batsmen score runs in rapid fire...

but bowlers also have a charm in them they not allow batsmen to score runs freely..when batsmen score 100 or 200 this always made good impact at their careers just like when bowlers take 5 wicket haul or 10 wkt haul.. peoples love to see their bowling highlights time by time...

in all three formats of cricket many bowlers are there who has done hatrick in them...recently followers in hatrick list are struat broad  who did it in second match against india at brimingham ...

that was the 12 hatrick from english side as well this was the 39 hatrick in history of test cricket..

for cricket lovers i am going to discuss all hatrick of test cricket
.in test cricket first hatrick did by aussie bowler fred spoforth he did it against england in 1879 at MCG..
second hatrick by english man billy battes in 1883 opponent australia.
overall in test cricket 39 hatricks has been done in that 12 by england 11 by aussies ..pakistan & westindies 4 times each india & newzealand 2 times each..srilankan & bangladeshi bowler did just one time..

jimmy matthews only bowler of australia who did hatcik at away at manchestar against south africa..
three bowlers hughe trembell , wasim akram , jimmy matthews did hatrick 2 times in test cricket..


wasim akram only bowler in the world who did this job as captain...even wasim akram & m. sami are only bowlers who has done hatrick in test & in one days..
in first test english medium pacer  mouse aaloum...1930 did ..hatrick kiwi off spinner peter patherick in 1976 aussie bowler damien fleming in 1994 only bowlers in the world who has done in devut match ..

m. sami & jeoff lawson hatricks was  based on bowled & l.b.w
in test cricket no bowler got four wkts in four balls only malinga did this in one day ..
in test cricket alok kapali is the bowler who did this job in young age against pakistan...19 years & 240 days ..in peshawar he did that..english spinner tom goodard ..did it at the age of 38 is the oldest bowler to do it....

against pakistan irfan pathan at karachi only bowler to do hatrick in first over of test match..
where as westindies bowler marrew hughes only bowler to do it in three different overs..aussie bowler peter siddle did hatrick on the day of his birthday..
wasim akram . a. razzaq, m. sami has done their hatrcik against same opponent srilanka...in test cricket..
interesting fact is that 800 test match wkts holder muralitharan has not done hatrcik in his career ..
stuart broad is directly involve in two hatrikcs in last ashses  he was the last victim of peter siddle where as he got harbhajan ...
only five bowlers who are directly involve in it.. shane warne. , daren gough , nowan zoysa, stuart braod ,harbhajan singh..