NCA Emerging Players Camp - High Performance Skill & Training Program (2018)

[Abdullah719]

Lahore-June 26, 2018: The National Selection Committee has announced 26 players for NCA Emerging Players High-Performance Skill and Training Program at the National Cricket Academy, Lahore commencing from July 2, 2018 to August 18, 2018. The selected players will work on their skills under the supervision of NCA elite coaches and are advised to report at NCA on July 1, 2018, except for Hussain Talat, Sahibzada Farhan and Shaheen Shah Afridi who will join the program after national duty. (Triangular T-20I tournament in Zimbabwe)

Following are the 26 players for the camp:

Zain Abbas
Israr Ullah
Sahibzada Farhan
Abid Ali
Saad Ali
Muhammad Saad
Hussain Talat
Agha Salman
Umaid Asif
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Waqas Maqsood
Bilal Asif
Muhammad Asghar
Kashif Bhatti
Iftikhar Ahmad
Ammad Butt
Muhammad Hassan
Saud Shakil
Musa Khan
Arshad Iqbal
Muhammad Hasnain
Zaid Alam
Ali Zaryab
Rohail Nazir
Nasim Shah
Muhammad Junaid

 

[Markhor]

Iftikhar Ahmed is an emerging player ?!

 

[saeed5646]

i think from this they will select squad for Emerging cup .

Very glad to see they have selected express bowler than the trundle we have last time in emerging cup

some exciting fast bowler are musa khan(U19),m husnain(waqar younis hand pick for ISU),

arshad iqbal(U19) ,Nasim shah

 

[saeed5646]

Iftikhar Ahmed is an emerging player ?!

there is also 30 year waqas maqsood with belly and 34 year old umaid asif

 

[saeed5646]

one thing also why they did not select a single leg spinner some one like ibtisam sheikh should have been

there.leg spinner Are vital for success in limiter over cricket

 

[Shafi]

there is also 30 year waqas maqsood with belly and 34 year old umaid asif

How about Kashif Bhatti?
Where is Taufiq Umar, Umar Gul? We need more experience players in emerging list.

 

[Finisher]

It's a good list

 

[Boi]

Zafar Gohar continues to be ignored. Inzi needs to wake up man

 

[Syed1]

Guys just be happy Inzi didn't put Azhar and Asad in the emerging players list

 

[Loralai]

Umaid Asif, Waqas Maqsood and Bilal Asif should not be on this list.

Why have Zafar Gohar and Mohammad Irfan been ignored?

 

[Artaxerxes]

We need to groom a couple of right arm fast bowlers who can consistently bowl 140+kph a couple of quality spinners.
We lost the recent series in England because we did not have good opening batsmen.We need proper openers who can occupy the crease to see off the new ball.Last year Aqib Javid was saying that he had found several young fast bowlers from different regions who were going to be trained at NCA?.I wonder what happened to them.

 

[MMHS]

What I can understand that the WK kid, Umair Masood isn't known much in PCB ranks. Rest lists are not that bad, but was expecting few more young fast bowlers.

 

[TeymurBlake]

There's alot of players on the list that shouldn't be there and there are players that should be. Overall, its not bad but come on some of the players should be on that list.

 

[ataullah]

Very happy to see potential express bowlers like hasnain, Arshad Musa and Nasim Shah

 

[saeed5646]

How about Kashif Bhatti?
Where is Taufiq Umar, Umar Gul? We need more experience players in emerging list.

To be honest this guy deserve a place due to his fantastic domestic record.unforunatley his fitness have let him down to play for pakistan recently

 

[saeed5646]

Very happy to see potential express bowlers like hasnain, Arshad Musa and Nasim Shah

How is this M.junaid guy?

 

[saeed5646]

Batting is pathetic.not a single modern day batsmen who can play at fast pace

 

[ataullah]

How is this M.junaid guy?

Never heard of him. Is he a young quickie? I was thinking about who he was

 

[ataullah]

Batting is pathetic.not a single modern day batsmen who can play at fast pace

Zaid Alam may be that guy

 

[saeed5646]

What I can understand that the WK kid, Umair Masood isn't known much in PCB ranks. Rest lists are not that bad, but was expecting few more young fast bowlers.

There are about 6 bowler who are young and fast but intersting to see how many will be shortlisted along with these few oldies

 

[saeed5646]

Zaid Alam may be that guy

Yeah he is good but lets if he gets notice or not

 

[saeed5646]

Never heard of him. Is he a young quickie? I was thinking about who he was

No idea he is listed in the end with fast bowler so might be fast bowler

 

[BA56]

It is worrying to see the lack of quality young batsmen in that list. Also no off spinners or leg spinner. Just too any pace bowlers.

Names I would have liked to see

Ammad Alam
Zeeshan Malik
Saim Ayub (I know he's playing at U16 level but if you're gonna call up a 16 year old fast bowler, why not a batsmen)
Zafar Gohar
Ibthisam Sheikh
Abrar Ahmed
Ashiq Ali
Umair Masood
Saif Badar
Hasan Mohsin

 

[Hasan123]

Mixed bag of selections.

 

[Salman4.]

Decent selections considering what they selected for the Zimbabwe tour.

 

[ataullah]

It is worrying to see the lack of quality young batsmen in that list. Also no off spinners or leg spinner. Just too any pace bowlers.

Names I would have liked to see

Ammad Alam
Zeeshan Malik
Saim Ayub (I know he's playing at U16 level but if you're gonna call up a 16 year old fast bowler, why not a batsmen)
Zafar Gohar
Ibthisam Sheikh
Abrar Ahmed
Ashiq Ali
Umair Masood
Saif Badar
Hasan Mohsin

Top list but can't understand obsession with Saif badar. He hasn't ever impressed apart from under 19 world cup

 

[Ellipsism]

How is this M.junaid guy?

Spin bowling all-rounder from Balochistan. Was picked up by QG last season, I believe.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

A lot of garbage in there that will serve no purpose in the future. Typical selection from Inzi, selecting the obvious talents and then filling the rest with the most well known players instead of actual prospects.

 

[silent ischemia]

Where are the leggies?
Ibtisam, Irfan and/or Mir

 

[TeamPak95]

There's no Akmal on here ?

 

[Shafi]

As usual Inzi is picking some TTFs. Either he is a hypocrite or force to select certain players.

 

[ataullah]

As usual Inzi is picking some TTFs. Either he is a hypocrite or force to select certain players.

Must be the latter. Some great picks and some Ttfs too.

 

[BA56]

Where are the leggies?
Ibtisam, Irfan and/or Mir

Yup Usama Mir, knew I was forgetting about someone. He has to be there for sure.

 

[BA56]

Top list but can't understand obsession with Saif badar. He hasn't ever impressed apart from under 19 world cup

Well not exactly blessed with a huge lot of talent coming through and most the prospects are left handed. Would like to see Badar given a proper run in the middle order rather than being thrown in at 7-8 like he usually is. You have to work on your best prospects regardless of one bad run of form.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Disappointing to see Bilal Asif and Iftikhar Ahmed on this list.But other than a few bad selections I think this is a decent enough list of players.

 

[MMHS]

There are about 6 bowler who are young and fast but intersting to see how many will be shortlisted along with these few oldies

Thanks. Probably they have picked the names with emerging Cup in mind, than than high performance skill training; because some of the picks are beyond that age (batsmen as well).

Can anyone put a small description of the unknown players here from local sources?

 

[ataullah]

Last year 27 players were picked for this camp compared to 26 this year. Maybe they have room for a few more players. Following players were selected last year and the ones at the bottom are selected again this year.

Openers: Sami Aslam, Fakhar Zaman, Imamul Haq, Sahibzada Farhan.

Middle-order batsmen: Umar Amin, Haris Sohail, Usman Salahuddin, Asif Zakir, Umar Akmal.

Fast bowlers: Usman Shinwari, Sameen Gul, Muhammad Irfan, Mir Hamza, Rumman Raees.

Spinners: Muhammad Asghar, Shadab Khan, Bilal Asif, Muhammad Irfan, Usama Mir.

Fast-bowling all-rounders: Amir Yamin, Faheem Ashraf, Ammad Butt, Hussain Talat.

Spin bowling all-rounders: Muhammad Nawaz, Agha Salman.

Wicket-keepers: Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Hassan.

Farhan, asghar, Bilal asif, Muhammad hasan, Tallat, agha Salman and ammad butt were also part of camp last year.
Do ppers think these players benefitted from the camp or it was waste of time?

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Waqas Maqsood has poor fitness levels and he is almost 31.

Waqas Ahmed deserved selection more than him.


Shaur Ahmed should have been there aswell.


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[Saj]

Waqas Maqsood has poor fitness levels and he is almost 31.

Waqas Ahmed deserved selection more than him.


Shaur Ahmed should have been there aswell.


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Waqas is in the UK playing club cricket.

I'm surprised that Mir Hamza isn't in this list.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Waqas is in the UK playing club cricket.

I'm surprised that Mir Hamza isn't in this list.

Thank you [MENTION=9]Saj[/MENTION] for updating. JazaakAllah.


Mir Hamza's omission is slightly surprising But,

He has already been part of like 3 emerging camps. Furthermore if pace and fitness are basic gauge than both Sadaf Hussain & Mir Hamza are similar in terms of fitness, pace & Fc numbers with Sadaf having excellent list A numbers aswell. If you pick Mir over Sadaf than you need to justify it.

 

[Sher Khan]

mir hamza really? He bowls 125 kph pies. Why does everyone rate him so much??

 

[Sunny_majoka]

Good names there. Glad to see some express bowlers in the list

 

[ataullah]

mir hamza really? He bowls 125 kph pies. Why does everyone rate him so much??

Because he can swing it both ways but needs conditions to favour him. Our very own David Willey

 

[Saj]

mir hamza really? He bowls 125 kph pies. Why does everyone rate him so much??

I think you must have watched a different Mir Hamza?

 

[Sher Khan]

I think you must have watched a different Mir Hamza?

Judging based on his PSL 3 performances. Was quite expensive and fairly innocuous.

 

[Nasty Naz]

Judging based on his PSL 3 performances. Was quite expensive and fairly innocuous.

Put Abbas in PSL or any T20 matches and the same will happen. It doesn't mean the bowler is bad, he just has to be used in the correct format. In Mir Hamza case, that is Test matches.

 

[shujaatraza]

pretty disspointing to know that Mir, Sadaf and Abbas are our 3 best pacemen for Test Matches domestic stat wise.. all 3 can't even touch 135k..
surely Pakistan can do better than this.

 

[bilawal666]

Don't forget Nasir Nawaz

 

[moghul]

Guys just be happy Inzi didn't put Azhar and Asad in the emerging players list

How can Inzi forget another raw talent

 

[moghul]

pretty disspointing to know that Mir, Sadaf and Abbas are our 3 best pacemen for Test Matches domestic stat wise.. all 3 can't even touch 135k..
surely Pakistan can do better than this.

Who is Sadaf ?

 

[mak36]

Assume this is ongoing.

Some excellent selections along with some poor ones.

There are also some surprising omissions. Off the top of my head, Danish Aziz, Umair Masood, Zeeshan Malik, Nasir Nawaz, Zafar Gohar, Ashiq Ali, Mohammed Irfan (legspinner).

You get the picture. That said based on previous years they seem pretty relaxed at letting other players turn up and take part.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NCA High Performance Camp is training the future Pakistan bowling line-up. NCA Coach <a href="https://twitter.com/Mushy_online?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mushy_online</a> & Former Test Fast bowler/ NCA Coach Mohsin Kamal are working with the spinners and pacers. Here is what these masters of their respective skills have to say about the programme. <a href="https://t.co/vlK7qzl4In">pic.twitter.com/vlK7qzl4In</a></p>— PCB Official (@TheRealPCB) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealPCB/status/1024264503930834944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[ataullah]

There are some players at the camp who are not selected which is great to see. Ibtisam sheikh is one of them who will benefit from mushtaq ahmed's coaching

 

[Abdullah719]

Local cricketer hospitalised after a ball hit his neck

A domestic cricketer was rushed to a hospital after he got hit by a ball during the Pakistan Cricket Board’s high performance camp.

The cricket board was availing the services of wicket keeper Shahbaz Ahmad during the camp match.

The ball, bowled by a fast bowler, hit the wicket keeper on the neck after a bounce.

He was taken to a hospital where he is being treated for his injuries.

https://www.samaa.tv/sports/2018/08/local-cricketer-hospitalised-after-a-ball-hit-his-neck/

 

[mak36]

Camp is supposed to be ongoing but it seems like some of the players are playing in the U19 inter-region tournament.

I assume they are still involved in the camp in some capacity [MENTION=133760]Abdullah719[/MENTION]?

 

[mak36]

We need to groom a couple of right arm fast bowlers who can consistently bowl 140+kph a couple of quality spinners.
We lost the recent series in England because we did not have good opening batsmen.We need proper openers who can occupy the crease to see off the new ball.Last year Aqib Javid was saying that he had found several young fast bowlers from different regions who were going to be trained at NCA?.I wonder what happened to them.

Huh?

Pakistan have drawn their last two test series in England (2-2 2016 and 1-1 in 2018) and won a trophy the last time they played ODI cricket.