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[VIDEO] "Just give me three chances as an opener" : Kamran Akmal

"Just give me three chances as an Opener" : Kamran Akmal

Uzi said:
For me one of the great keeper batsmen in world cricket. He is a dead cert for an opening slot, well he should be anyway.
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He's a hack he averages 26 with the bat and he gets out the same way almost every match he isn't a great WK bat at all if he was a s good as Dhoni with the bat even then I wouldn't excuse his keeping he should never play for Pakistan again
 
He's really improved as a keeper. Didn't see him drop a catch or make any errors during his comeback. Only problem was his batting and now that has improved and he's in form there.

We are missing out on him
 
"Just give me three chances as an Opener" : Kamran Akmal

Bullet Drive said:
He's really improved as a keeper. Didn't see him drop a catch or make any errors during his comeback. Only problem was his batting and now that has improved and he's in form there.

We are missing out on him
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Have you forgot his reputation for being involved in team politics and creating factions also he is a fixer :Sydney :Butt
 
The Akmal gang and their chamchas are desperate to once again take over our team #nomoreakmals

Umar can stay in ODI and T20 but a big NO to the rest of the gang.
 
He lost his place in the side primarily due to his keeping. Yet he insists on talking about what he can do with the bat. He has no shame, drops 90 catches for Pakistan and insists on coming back into the team because of his batting. Why? So that he can drop 100 plus catches for Pakistan before retirement??

Sorry no need. His career would have been terminated after that disgraceful effort in Sydney.

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I can see Kamran Akmal being in the WT20 to be honest, I think they will go for a full time wicket keeper but just hope they keep Umar Akmal in the team too.

And his return was very good in the wicket keeping department, it was his batting which was horrible. His last 5 innings - 21 0 2 81 13

81 + 13 were against Ireland, the 81 was a good innings because Pakistan would have lost to Ireland.

In the champions trophy though he failed and was dropped 21 0 2

And so did Shoaib Malik 17 8 0

Anyway I can see Kamran Akmal coming back and playing in the WT20 but he likely will be at 6/7, Shezad & Kamran to open though would be interesting.
 
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No wonder he didn't think it was fair on Umar Akmal to WK. What a opportunist ignoranace.
 
All the runs Akmal has scored in his career will be less than the amount of runs he has cost Pakistan with dropped catches, missed stumpings/ run outs and fumbles behind the stumps...
 
What wicket keeping improvements he has done in this time to deserve a call back ? the opener slot should be good without him and his keeping does not deserve a call back.
 
"Just give me three chances as an Opener" : Kamran Akmal

Probably the most naturally gifted keeper the world has ever seen.
 
So he will probably get his desired 3 chances !!!! :P

Bad day for Pakistan cricket though .... :(
 
I like how most people say 'give me one chance, just one chance, I will bat anywhere the team needs me', but Kamran says, after years or genuine hurt and torment to Pakistani fans ''just give me 3 chances and that too in my preferred batting position'. He's blatantly pre-planning his excuses when his exact demands aren't met! The worst bit is that the selectors actually listen to his rubbish.

Let's just say for a second that there is no one in domestic cricket capable of hitting shots (it's not true but lets just say it for arguments sake), why do the selectors not turn to Misbah? In the recent odi series against Lanka, Misbah came in with the team needing acceleration. He demonstrated why he is probably one of the cleanest hitters in world cricket. No slogs, purely timed 6s. Now who in their right mind would chose Kamran over Misbah? I guess you could say the Pakistanis selectors would, but they aren't exactly sane.
 
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Hasn't even done well in domestic but don't wanna call up rizwan for pressure tournament and takes some burden of umar akmal
 
Always has been quality as an opener. His drives through the cover are fantastic.
 
These two Akmal brothers are pure batting talents. Need to be given a longer run, specially when the others you have are nothing special.
 
Electron said:
These two Akmal brothers are pure batting talents. Need to be given a longer run, specially when the others you have are nothing special.
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I dont mind kamran playing as a batsman but he should never ever wear keeping gloves in crucial matches.
 
Kami should be kept away from the gloves in SC conditions he could've been like Anwar in ODIS for us

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Still a better opener than most of the ones we have tried in the last decade.
 
He played great in the Warm Up matches in the last T20 World Cup.

And then went missing for the entire tournament.

I am not keeping my hopes high.

Just a warm up match.
 
Mamoon said:
Still a better opener than most of the ones we have tried in the last decade.
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Better than who? Sharjeel and Farhat perhaps. Hafeez and Shehzad are both better then him. So was Nasir until he completely lost it. Salman Butt was better. Heck even Shahzaib Hassan has better stats.

I am talking about ODIs just to be clear.
 
Kamran is and was better than Sharjeel, Farhat, Yasir Hameed and Shahzaib. I reckon that covers the majority of openers that we have tried in the last decade or so.

Butt, Shehzad and Jamshed are the only 3 that are better.
 
In t20's kamran has always been a dangerous opener for us, rubbish in other formats.
 
Adil_94 said:
Kami should be kept away from the gloves in SC conditions he could've been like Anwar in ODIS for us

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Yea Kamran is too good an opener to keep. He has stats only tendulkar can beat..
 
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Electron said:
These two Akmal brothers are pure batting talents. Need to be given a longer run, specially when the others you have are nothing special.
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What a talent Kamran Akmal is. A glorified slogger with zero cricketing sense. Overweight. Ageing. Made us a laughing stock on the world stage. What else has he left to prove? Lets just give him a glorified run so that he ends his career on a high making Pakistan a minnow in that process.
 
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waleed88 said:
Yea Kamran is too good an opener to keep. He has stats only tendulkar can beat..
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Hahaha I'm saying he could've he has underachieved with the batting talent he has he couldve been a great FTB opener for us

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Kami will partner Shehzad.

Sharjeel is not up to international standard yet, needs to go back to domestics and work on it.

But Kami did this to us last T20 WC where he delivered in warm up and was vile to watch in the tourney.
 
waleed88 said:
What a talent Kamran Akmal is. A glorified slogger with zero cricketing sense. Overweight. Ageing. Made us a laughing stock on the world stage. What else has he left to prove? Lets just give him a glorified run so that he ends his career on a high making Pakistan a minnow in that process.
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Did you watch him bat today? I dont think it is fair to single Kamran out since Sharjeel isn't exactly setting the world alight as an opener anyway. Kamran is our best T20I opener and the times he has played scintillating knocks at the top, has made sure we are on the front foot from the word go


menace2society said:
Kami will partner Shehzad.

Sharjeel is not up to international standard yet, needs to go back to domestics and work on it.

But Kami did this to us last T20 WC where he delivered in warm up and was vile to watch in the tourney.
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Batted at number 7 for the whole tourney. After the kind of success he has had opening the batting, to send him down as a finisher was a bit harsh on the lad
 
I believe your 3 chances are up Mr. Eternal Failure. 48 runs @ 16, SR 90. Tried and tested failure indeed.
 
I consider the aussie game a success, he played well to support his brother.

One runout, deserves a couple of more runs (pun intended)
 
Lara400 said:
I consider the aussie game a success, he played well to support his brother.

One runout, deserves a couple of more runs (pun intended)
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He will obviously get them the way the squad has been selected. He'll always remain a failure though.
 
"Just give me three chances as an Opener" : Kamran Akmal

3 chances up ;)
Now whats the plan ahead? Lol
 
Usman Chadda said:
Did you watch him bat today? I dont think it is fair to single Kamran out since Sharjeel isn't exactly setting the world alight as an opener anyway. Kamran is our best T20I opener and the times he has played scintillating knocks at the top, has made sure we are on the front foot from the word go


Batted at number 7 for the whole tourney. After the kind of success he has had opening the batting, to send him down as a finisher was a bit harsh on the lad
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Your beloved Kamran Akmal has been tried everywhere from no.1 to no.7 in all formats from 2005.

If you have any doubts about his batting ability. He played as an opener vs England in the series in England 2006. He opened and did nothing of note in that whole series. Not to mention his dropped catches which are the source of his reputation

According to alot of the posters here kamran was in his prime back then. He himself said he is not an opener and cannot open in test matches.

Now don't give me the example of gilchrist didn't open in test matches either.. They had the best openers of their generation back then.

Back then we had a shortage of openers and Kamran was tried as an opener and still failed..

Did you know he failed in the whole VB series in 2004 after scoring a 100 vs West Indies in Australia..
 
Sharjeel is a youngster. Kamran was given his full quota of chances as a youngster and he rewarded us with good performances.

Now its the same faith we must give on to other youngsters. The team needs to move on. A youngster is 20 times better in t20s than a known ttf.

Because you can't predict what that youngster will give you. And the element of surprise is what gives the team an added advantage.

Something Kamran will never bring..
 
First one was for practice and the one with BD doesnt count. So he is left with 2 more chances at least.

Technically his average is 48 now :D
 
That's 3 chances Kami, now get the hell out! He is the most over rated and useless cricketer to ever represent Pakistan! Pathetic!
 
farazaidi said:
he'll probably play the whole tournament and yet his fans will cry about not enough chances !

mark my words !
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He asked for 3, give him 3.

I believe his clause didn't include run outs.

We need to play this game fairly so there's no complaints from any party.

If he fails tomorrow, he'd should make way for Sharjeel in the semis.
 
He was brought back in as a hard hitting strokemaker at the top of the order. Haven't really seen a great deal of that.

Half the problem I feel is that he isn't an opener domestically these days. Perhaps the problem is he's hedging his bets because of the form of the likes of Hafeez, Malik and Maqsood whereas Shehzad is more comfortable in his role because...he's been part of the revolution post CT.
 
I find this statement puzzling, why three chances and not just one, isn't that what the usual statement? Maybe it was in some context.
 
Mamoon said:
He asked for 3, give him 3.

I believe his clause didn't include run outs.

We need to play this game fairly so there's no complaints from any party.

If he fails tomorrow, he'd should make way for Sharjeel in the semis.
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lol, just wait when its all over. You'll get long essays from MRSN describing how elegant and beautiful Kamran looked in 31 he got against Australia. That fellow once defended an innings of 11 runs from Kami Bradman :misbah
 
Mamoon said:
He asked for 3, give him 3.

I believe his clause didn't include run outs.

We need to play this game fairly so there's no complaints from any party.

If he fails tomorrow, he'd should make way for Sharjeel in the semis.
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What BS is this ?

It's not under the player's discretion to decide how many chances he gets, it's the authorities who deem that right upon the player.

Heck he's been given 100s of chances, yet he's failed 70% of them.
 
If Kamran fails tomorrow, he needs to be dropped for good. Big game for him tomorrow.
 
Id be surprised if does anything special in this tournament.

Last tournament for him. Even someone like Imran Nazir would have added more value than him in the team.
 
Kamran Akmal in this tournament - 8, 31, 9 and 0. A total of 48 runs at a strike rate of 85
 
he is useless what does he bring in team ? nothing Umar Akmal can keep easily and a specialist opener could have been used , he is nothing against decent bowlers
 
4 Strikes and you are out. Absolute failure apart from some support in Aus which Ahmed could have provided if he had Sharjeel by his side.


Hope this hack and malik never show themselves in a Pak kit again
 
DROP! Infact, he needs to retire. But we all know somehow he will make his way back. same story.
 
Its not akmal fault, the board and selectors are a disgrace. It very disappointing from them. Really unfair on the players who deserve a chance.
 
Yeah epic fail by Kamran in this tournament shouldn't be in the side after this

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