Memo to Inzamam-ul-Haq and the PCB : Select Fawad Alam in the Test team as captain

[srh]

Now that the 2 legends are gone, Pakistan should select Fawad Alam in the test team and also appoint him as the test team captain.

Pakistan badly needs a left-hand batsman in middle order who can rotate the strike, and is hard to get out and Fawad Alam fits the bill perfectly.

Also Fawad Alam is a way better option as test captain than someone like Sarfraz.

Inzi you did not listen to me last time when I told you not to select Kamran Akmal and I was proven right. I am right this time too.

 

[Adil_94]

Fawad can be VC lets give Sarfraz a chance.

 

[SM1989]

Yes Inzy has read this and will be announcing Fawad's selection tomorrow. Not

 

[Mamoon]

Fawad may deserve to be selected as batsman, but Sarfraz has to be the captain, and it is not debatable.

 

[msb314]

Fawad may deserve to be selected as batsman, but Sarfraz has to be the captain, and it is not debatable.

Yes but he must step down from T20's.

 

[Big Mac]

Captain? Nah.

He definitely deserves a proper run in the test side more than the other talented youngsta beauties

 

[sadida97]

NO, select haris sohail....

1-azhar ali
2-sharjeel khan/sami aslam
3-Babar Azam
4-Haris Sohail
5-Usman salahuddin
6-Asad shafiq/shadab Khan
7-sarfaraz ahmad
8-Mohammad amir
9-Yasir Shah
10-Hassan Ali
11-Mohammad Abbas

 

[Hawkeye]

Haris and Fawad need to be selected as batsmen asap.

Sarfraz captaincy didn't give any of us confidence in 50 overs, not sure how it's going to turn out in 5 days. Let's see.

 

[shane]

Not sure about making him captain, but he should have been in the team for the past seven years. Too little too late at this stage.

 

[Mamoon]

Yes but he must step down from T20's.

Retiring from T20Is will actually be a better option. Captaincy + keeping in all three formats is not easy. Not everyone is Dhoni. However, it is not going to happen. Too smart an idea for the PCB.

 

[Rayyman]

Retiring from T20Is will actually be a better option. Captaincy + keeping in all three formats is not easy. Not everyone is Dhoni. However, it is not going to happen. Too smart an idea for the PCB.

I am sorry but T20s shouldn't really take a toll on any international cricketer

 

[coy0607]

making Fawad Alam captain is just as absurd as not selecting him

no question he should in the team, but exactly has he accomplished to be made captain ?

 

[msb314]

I am sorry but T20s shouldn't really take a toll on any international cricketer

Not physically but the time commitment required along with working with the coaching staff and leading/motivating the players.

 

[msb314]

Retiring from T20Is will actually be a better option. Captaincy + keeping in all three formats is not easy. Not everyone is Dhoni. However, it is not going to happen. Too smart an idea for the PCB.

PCB or no PCB - Sarfraz can step down from captaincy himself e.g. Hafeez after the 2014 World T20

 

[Rayyman]

making Fawad Alam captain is just as absurd as not selecting him

no question he should in the team, but exactly has he accomplished to be made captain ?

He has an average of 50 in domestic so he has to captain the national side
#FanLogic

 

[Mamoon]

I am sorry but T20s shouldn't really take a toll on any international cricketer

It is a needless distraction at this stage of his career, and he is not a pivotal part of the T20 team either.

 

[Mamoon]

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PCB or no PCB - Sarfraz can step down from captaincy himself e.g. Hafeez after the 2014 World T20

Hafeez resigned only because he knew he was about to get sacked. His 'resignation' was no different to Azhar's.

 

[msb314]

Hafeez resigned only because he knew he was about to get sacked. His 'resignation' was no different to Azhar's.

Okay but Sarfraz can still resign regardless.

 

[Mamoon]

Okay but Sarfraz can still resign regardless.

Captaining all three formats is a very privileged position. Sarfraz will not give it away, and potentially risk losing the ODI captaincy to the next T20 captain (Babar/Imad).

 

[msb314]

Captaining all three formats is a very privileged position. Sarfraz will not give it away, and potentially risk losing the ODI captaincy to the next T20 captain (Babar/Imad).

We have to move away from this dehaati mindset that everyone is looking to take over captaincy behind their back.

Sarfraz's captaincy/position in ODI's is nto under thread at all. We have improved in ODI's under his leadership and he has the support of Mickey and the PCB. His best batting form right now also happens to be in ODI's.

Stepping away from T20's will have no impact on his ODI career and captaincy.

 

[srh]

Making Misbah captain when he was out of the team has done wonders for Pakistan and the rewards may repeat for Pakistan if Fawad is also appointed Captain.

 

[Hasan123]

Sarfraz deserves the captaincy.

 

[moghul]

Why Azhar Ali is not the test captain ? He is the best player in test team who has performed in every condition. Don't think Sarfraz can handle captaincy in all 3 formats.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Sarfraz.

 

[coy0607]

It is a needless distraction at this stage of his career, and he is not a pivotal part of the T20 team either.

T20 being a "needless distraction" is your opinion and not a fact

truth be told, T20 is maybe the most important format of cricket as far as financials go, and the future of cricket

with regular T20 World Cups, and numerous domestic leagues, in 10 years we may be measuring a cricketer by the T20 careers and not their test careers

 

[Junaids]

For goodness sake, no.

It's time to eliminate elderly passengers from the team, not to recreate the problem.

Fawad Alam's QEA season revealed a thirty-something batsman in decline.

He already had a weird Peter Willey-style technique.

Pakistan needs to do what India did when the geriatric incarnations of Dravid, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Laxman lost so badly in England and Australia.

Invest in youth.

Pick Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman and drop Azhar Ali back down the order.

But don't recycle old and declining batsmen like Fawad Alam or Salman Butt.

 

[khan991]

This is not galle cricket you have to earn captaincy and hes not some youngster who can be groomed as a captain.

 

[Syed1]

OP bhai you can cry as much as you want but Sarfaraz is the next test captain

 

[idrizzy]

I am sorry but T20s shouldn't really take a toll on any international cricketer

Extra stress.

 

[asma_cricfan]

+1
The so called agression might work in shorter format of the game but test cricket is all about patience which i failef to see yet in sarfraz.

Azhar could be another name as captain but i think he is not much captain material.

 

[cricketAXEpert]

Now that the 2 legends are gone, Pakistan should select Fawad Alam in the test team and also appoint him as the test team captain.

Pakistan badly needs a left-hand batsman in middle order who can rotate the strike, and is hard to get out and Fawad Alam fits the bill perfectly.

Also Fawad Alam is a way better option as test captain than someone like Sarfraz.

Inzi you did not listen to me last time when I told you not to select Kamran Akmal and I was proven right. I am right this time too.

I Support Fawad Alam's induction into the side. But Captaincy?

 

[Major]

When misbah was made captain people doubted him aswell. Many posters here did not trust me


I agree, if fawad has the experience of captaincy in first class then give him the go

 

[big_gamer007]

Lol posters are so extreme on here..

 

[arehaan]

Fawad Alam has to come in to the test team now without question. The guy is mature enough and has very rich experience to succeed at international level

 

[Bilal7]

Dude, Inzamam won't be reading this or any of your posts. Hate to break it to you, but with suggestions like this, it would be best if he never comes across them even by accident.

Sarfaraz Ahmed has been groomed to take over as captain once Misbah retires. That is what should happen.

 

[Alamgeer]

Fawad alam is 35 already(unofficialy) and he would be 36 when pAkistan play test cricket again. He cannot make to the team as a member and Fadi fans compainging for his captaincy. An urdu saying suits it so much "mout dikha kar bukhaar par razi karna"

 

[ocfan]

Fawad Alam can become Pakistan's news test Captain on Misbah's Model

Like Misbah-ul-Haq he is being ignored for weird reasons since a long time, Considering PCB's old approach he may be announced as new test captain from nowhere like Misbah was made in 2010.

I seriously pray and hope that he made into test team and serve Pakistan team for a decade or so. He has potential of playing 100 tests and breaking YK's 10+ test runs record.

What do you guys think him as new test captain considering available options?

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Sarfraz should be skipper.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Fawad alam is 35 already(unofficialy) and he would be 36 when pAkistan play test cricket again. He cannot make to the team as a member and Fadi fans compainging for his captaincy. An urdu saying suits it so much "mout dikha kar bukhaar par razi karna"��������

How do you know that he is 35?Seen a lot of people assigning random ages to the players.Not targetting you but talking generally

 

[ocfan]

Fawad alam is 35 already(unofficialy) and he would be 36 when pAkistan play test cricket again. He cannot make to the team as a member and Fadi fans compainging for his captaincy. An urdu saying suits it so much "mout dikha kar bukhaar par razi karna"��������

Even if you are true then see Misbah was appointed captain around 34/35 years age.

 

[srh]

Sarfraz Ahmed is the energizer bunny of this team. You never select energizer bunny as a captain of your team or else you will lose both a good energizer bunny and a good captain. For a captain you need nerves of steel like . Fawad Alam has vast experience as captain and does not lose it when the going gets tough.

 

[Amirforpresident]

Sarfraz Ahmed is the energizer bunny of this team. You never select energizer bunny as a captain of your team or else you will lose both a good energizer bunny and a good captain. For a captain you need nerves of steel like . Fawad Alam has vast experience as captain and does not lose it when the going gets tough.

Yes lets make someone captain who isnt even in the team.

 

[srh]

Yes lets make someone captain who isnt even in the team.

exactly. you get your most winning captain the same way

 

[SARJ_BD]

Appointing Fawad as captain will be as stupid decision as it was when PCB appointed Azhar as ODI captain in 2015.
Ys Fawad should be in the team, not as captain. Captain should be someone who has been around the team for a while.

 

[asma_cricfan]

Right now beside sarfraz there is no one in the team is captain material as azhar already refused. Babar is young, asad's own spot is questionable, amir is a previous cheat.
Replacing misbah and younis, pcb if include hafeez, will make him captain most likely.
If fawad can make it to the team atleast, i will be good for Pakistan.

 

[Salman]

How do you know that he is 35?Seen a lot of people assigning random ages to the players.Not targetting you but talking generally

Fawad has been good friend of my cousin in Gulshan-e-Iqbal since they were school kids, my cousin now is nearly touching 40, so is really Fawad at least 35.

 

[Flat_Track_Bully]

Not skipper material.

 

[classic]

Fawad should be in the team based on his FC average however as earlier post said he should not be captain as it should go to Sarfraz who is already in the set up and understands the boyz and Azhar as VC.

It would be unfair to put Fawad in such a demanding role at the outset. I have a strong feeling he will be selected . Lets see.

 

[Arsalan Pro]

Should be selected in the team, but Sarfraz rightly deserves to be the captain.

 

[cricketAXEpert]

making Fawad Alam captain is just as absurd as not selecting him

no question he should in the team, but exactly has he accomplished to be made captain ?

The Comment about him getting the Captaincy, makes one wonder if this is a serious post.

 

[bujhee kom]

Now that the 2 legends are gone, Pakistan should select Fawad Alam in the test team and also appoint him as the test team captain.

Pakistan badly needs a left-hand batsman in middle order who can rotate the strike, and is hard to get out and Fawad Alam fits the bill perfectly.

Also Fawad Alam is a way better option as test captain than someone like Sarfraz.

Inzi you did not listen to me last time when I told you not to select Kamran Akmal and I was proven right. I am right this time too.

Inzi played c.20 yr and you only talk about cricket...but you know more.

 

[Pete Rose]

Won't get a slot in the team and that's fine by me

 

[ask_analyse_act]

good that he doesn't even make the squad for the camp. Finished cricketer. Well done inzi.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Hahaha

Good one.

Make Mr Frail our captain when we have Sarf.

 

[mariner014]

Hahah.....that good joke.

 

[Railu Katta]

LOL OP! Maybe Inzi should resign and give his position to Fawad Alam. Some of the posters on here...

 

[Junaids]

For goodness sake, no.

It's time to eliminate elderly passengers from the team, not to recreate the problem.

Fawad Alam's QEA season revealed a thirty-something batsman in decline.

He already had a weird Peter Willey-style technique.

Pakistan needs to do what India did when the geriatric incarnations of Dravid, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Laxman lost so badly in England and Australia.

Invest in youth.

Pick Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman and drop Azhar Ali back down the order.

But don't recycle old and declining batsmen like Fawad Alam or Salman Butt.

I still stand by this!

 

[New Yorker]

I still stand by this!

Azhar Ali is older than Fawad Alam

Maybe we should ask who is taller?

 

[bujhee kom]

Azhar Ali is older than Fawad Alam

Maybe we should ask who is taller?

AA is an established world class player.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

I still stand by this!

Do you really think Fakhar would succeed as a test opener,in the long term?

Azhar should open along with Sami.

 

[New Yorker]

AA is an established world class player.

Im not asking for AA to be dropped. Im questioning the curiously selective proposition that no Test batsman older than 30 should be selected for the national team unless their name is Azhar or Shafiq. Id rather ask whether the batsman in question meets a pressing need, say for a tough as nails middle order batsman with experience, to replace Misbah and Younis, and whether they are good enough, and I'd be pretty impressed if they were to have the best FC domestic average in Pakistani history and have moreover scored a daddy hundred on Test debut.

 

[coy0607]

Do you really think Fakhar would succeed as a test opener,in the long term?

Azhar should open along with Sami.

Doesn't matter what we think.. for Inzi, if you can play one format you can play all formats

That's how Azhar and Asad have ended up playing over 50 ODIs. That's how Yasir has played as many ODIs. And that's how Sharjeel broke into the test team

Unless he's injured, I guarantee you Zaman will be opening alongside Azhar in the first test against SL

 

[Pakhs]

Inzi has been the best national selector since as far as I can remember. Pretty much all the players his selected has performed and in the case they haven't he has changed it as soon enough. I hope he continues for a while yet. Some posters have no clue about cricket criticising him. That why its important to play some league cricket to understand the dynamics of player potentials etc and the posters who haven't shouldn't comment on selection issues.

 

[ExpressPacer]

While Sarfraz is the ideal captain for our team, it will be a real travesty if Fawad Alam doesn't make the squad. Shan Masood needs to be dropped for Sami Aslam and Fawad needs to be brought in for someone. I don't know who, but someone nonetheless. Maybe Shafiq?

 

[Kianig89]

Why not appoint Fswad as Chairman PCB. #OP'slogic

 

[Misia]

I personally have. No issue with Sarfraz as captain in all three formats.but do agree that Fawad needs to be apart of at least the test team if not odi's as well

 

[Pete Rose]

Inzi has been the best national selector since as far as I can remember. Pretty much all the players his selected has performed and in the case they haven't he has changed it as soon enough. I hope he continues for a while yet. Some posters have no clue about cricket criticising him. That why its important to play some league cricket to understand the dynamics of player potentials etc and the posters who haven't shouldn't comment on selection issues.

Yeah maybe we should just shut this forum since we have no clue vs all these players who are playing or selecting.

 

[Billy1999]

I keep on saying this but I will say it again,2 new batsmen in the middle order will be catastrophic weather it's Fawad,Haris or Usman they won't be able to adapt,Intl cricket is a different kettle of fish compared to domestic

My 11
1:Hafeez (Hate all you want but use him,he is a great utility cricketer and he seems to have gotten better with his technique)
2:Sami Aslam (Best option currently)
3:Azhar Ali
4:Usman Salahuddin
5:Asad Shafiq
6:Babar Azam
7:Sarfraz Ahmed
8:Mohmd Amir
9:Yasir shah
10:Hassan Ali
11:Mohmd Abbas
Or
1:Azhar
2:Sami
3:Babar
4:Shafiq
5:Usman
6:Sarfraz
7:Imad
8:Amir
9:Hassan
10:Yasir
11:Abbas

 

[Canistani Hero]

Azhar Ali
Sami Aslam
Babar Azam
Haris Sohail
Asad Shafiq
Sarfraz Ahmed
Shadab Khan
Mohammad Amir
Yasir Shah
Hasan Ali
Mohammad Abbas

 

[Arham_PakFan]

While Sarfraz is the ideal captain for our team, it will be a real travesty if Fawad Alam doesn't make the squad. Shan Masood needs to be dropped for Sami Aslam and Fawad needs to be brought in for someone. I don't know who, but someone nonetheless. Maybe Shafiq?

There are two vacant slots left after MisYou left.Fawad can easily take those.

 

[ExpressPacer]

There are two vacant slots left after MisYou left.Fawad can easily take those.

Oh, yes. Completely forgot about that. Nonetheless, Asad Shafiq also needs to step his game up because there is a lot of young and bright talent coming through and he persists with his usual one good score a series method of playing. His work is far from done after doing good only once.

 

[Markhor]

I keep on saying this but I will say it again,2 new batsmen in the middle order will be catastrophic weather it's Fawad,Haris or Usman they won't be able to adapt,Intl cricket is a different kettle of fish compared to domestic

My 11
1:Hafeez (Hate all you want but use him,he is a great utility cricketer and he seems to have gotten better with his technique)
2:Sami Aslam (Best option currently)
3:Azhar Ali
4:Usman Salahuddin
5:Asad Shafiq
6:Babar Azam
7:Sarfraz Ahmed
8:Mohmd Amir
9:Yasir shah
10:Hassan Ali
11:Mohmd Abbas
Or
1:Azhar
2:Sami
3:Babar
4:Shafiq
5:Usman
6:Sarfraz
7:Imad
8:Amir
9:Hassan
10:Yasir
11:Abbas

Hafeez has given us utility in the past but its time for him to go. He's nearing the age of 40, we need to think long-term. Also, which technical improvements are you seeing ? He looked all at sea against pace versus South Africa and Sri Lanka. He was exposed vs England last year.

I agree however its unrealistic to expect too many new faces as the Test team has been quite stable for the last few years. Fawad would replace some of the lost experience from MisYou's retirements. Yes his technique is not textbook but it'd be an injustice to not even give him a run.

 

[Billy1999]

Hafeez has given us utility in the past but its time for him to go. He's nearing the age of 40, we need to think long-term. Also, which technical improvements are you seeing ? He looked all at sea against pace versus South Africa and Sri Lanka. He was exposed vs England last year.

I agree however its unrealistic to expect too many new faces as the Test team has been quite stable for the last few years. Fawad would replace some of the lost experience from MisYou's retirements. Yes his technique is not textbook but it'd be an injustice to not even give him a run.

Salman Butt instead of Hafeez then

In my team I'm not having 2 middle order specialists come in NO CHANCE

 

[New Yorker]

Salman Butt instead of Hafeez then

In my team I'm not having 2 middle order specialists come in NO CHANCE

What is nonsense about Fawad 'coming in.'? He already made his Test debut and he scored a daddy century on that debut. He also has a the highest FC average in Pakistani history. Pretty much the safest, like for like middle order replacement for MisYou there could be.

 

[Khwaja]

WAY TOO OLD!!!

would rather have Salman Butt

 

[Billy1999]

Don't think fawad would cope with the Intl bowlers apart from Bangladesh,India,Srilanka and west indies take away India and we have 3 teams that Fawad will do well against he won't do well against top teams

 

[Khwaja]

Fawad has proven to be a failure many times.... get over it

 

[Alamgeer]

He is in his mid 30s (unofficially). Forget him. Umar amin farhan haris talat any many more looking for a place in test team.

 

[Khwaja]

1. Mohammed Azhar Ali
2. Salman Butt (c)
3. Mohammed Babar
4. Mohammed Hafeez
5. Sarfraz Ahmed
6. Mohammed Rizwan +
7. Sami Aslam
8. Mohammed Aamer
9. Hasan Ali
10. Mohammed Abbas
11. Yasir Shah

 

[Asim_khan]

His record speaks for itself. He should be brought in and given his chance. His technique maybe be an eyesore, but then again so what Chanderpauls.

There's no room for passengers in test cricket, if Haris Sohail and Umar Amin want that test spot over Fawad, they better play for it and make some runs.