[VIDEO] Time for an Umar Akmal return to the Test squad?

[sweep_shot]

Don't think he will be mainstream in international cricket again. This guy seems finished.

 

[Junaids]

When will this Umar Akmal debate end . Before he was dropped from the test side he scored 2 50s in his last 26 test innings . So at the time he was dropped it was no gross injustice .

It was a long time ago however , but since then he has lost his way. He has disappointed in white ball cricket and not really shown any improvement.

Sticking to red ball cricket , he has performed well in domestic cricket recently, but their are other players who have performed consistently well and for a longer period of time who have still not been given a chance or just given an odd test here and there .
Akmal will now need to wait his turn .

His most recent outings for Pakistan resulted in 2 golden ducks and in his 5 one dayers against Australia in which Rizwan and Haris got 100’s he failed to score even a single 50. So let’s not get to hopeful on him .

With respect, this sums up the bind that Umar Akmal now finds himself in.

He was dropped forever from the Test team at the age of 21 years and 3 months. He had an average of 35.82 even though he only ever played a single innings in Asia.

You say that he had 2 fifties in his final 26 Test innings. Sure, but Azhar Ali only has 1 fifty in his last 17 Test innings outside Asia, and Haris Sohail has 0 Test fifties in his entire career of 8 innings outside Asia.

More to the point, Umar Akmal's final 3 Tests - all outside Asia - produced scores of 33, 47, 56, 30 and 15.

So Umar Akmal was thrown out of Test cricket at the age of 21 with an average of 35.82, compiled almost entirely outside Asia.

His cousin Babar Azam took until his 21st Test, at Cape Town in January 2019, to reach Umar Akmal's average. But he was given 21 Tests to do so, and was persisted with until he was 3 years older.

So it's pretty obvious that Umar Akmal was prematurely discarded from the Test team. And yes, he was immature - most 21 year olds are, and he wasted his career drifting aimlessly for years, while Younis, Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq were untouchable as the middle-order, even to players like Fawad Alam who were grinding out the runs.

But the argument was always "we know he is more gifted than any other Pakistani - apart from his cousin Babar - but he needs to go away, grow up and show that he can knuckle down and play long red ball innings."

Yes, it took him years. But he has now been Man of the Match in back-to-back Quaid-e-Azam Finals, and he is scoring the big runs he was told to against the red ball.

And now we are told that he has to go back and join an imaginary queue, and wait his turn?

What kind of nonsense is this? International sport differs from club sport in that any country only has a finite amount of players with a very high level of ability.

Umar Akmal already averaged 36 in Tests in SENA even before he matured. And now he has to get in a queue behind players of far less ability? He's 29, and clearly at the peak of his red ball career.

Yet Pakistan appears to have elected to implement a "Take Your Turn" system, designed to ensure that either

1. Like Fawad Alam, you only get your turn when you are already in age-related decline, or
2. Like Abid Ali, you only get your turn in the final 2 years before age dulls your powers, rather than being able to serve your country for longer.

It's mad. I don't care what happened when he last played ODI's. Umar Akmal is clearly Pakistan's second best red ball player behind Babar Azam, and this endless invention of excuses for omitting him is just crazy!

 

[Zaz]

Looking at the video highlights of his innings it seems like nothing much has changed

His innings is littered with some good shots but also leg side aerials hoicks that we have grown to see with umar Theres one shot he can down a pacer and slogged to the legside for god sake He got out to a similar shot too

The better test batsmen dont play risky aerial shots like umar is prone to doing

Any half decent test team and bowler knows where to bowl to umar and the result will be predictable

 

[GreenKhan]

With respect, this sums up the bind that Umar Akmal now finds himself in.

He was dropped forever from the Test team at the age of 21 years and 3 months. He had an average of 35.82 even though he only ever played a single innings in Asia.

You say that he had 2 fifties in his final 26 Test innings. Sure, but Azhar Ali only has 1 fifty in his last 17 Test innings outside Asia, and Haris Sohail has 0 Test fifties in his entire career of 8 innings outside Asia.

More to the point, Umar Akmal's final 3 Tests - all outside Asia - produced scores of 33, 47, 56, 30 and 15.

So Umar Akmal was thrown out of Test cricket at the age of 21 with an average of 35.82, compiled almost entirely outside Asia.

His cousin Babar Azam took until his 21st Test, at Cape Town in January 2019, to reach Umar Akmal's average. But he was given 21 Tests to do so, and was persisted with until he was 3 years older.

So it's pretty obvious that Umar Akmal was prematurely discarded from the Test team. And yes, he was immature - most 21 year olds are, and he wasted his career drifting aimlessly for years, while Younis, Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq were untouchable as the middle-order, even to players like Fawad Alam who were grinding out the runs.

But the argument was always "we know he is more gifted than any other Pakistani - apart from his cousin Babar - but he needs to go away, grow up and show that he can knuckle down and play long red ball innings."

Yes, it took him years. But he has now been Man of the Match in back-to-back Quaid-e-Azam Finals, and he is scoring the big runs he was told to against the red ball.

And now we are told that he has to go back and join an imaginary queue, and wait his turn?

What kind of nonsense is this? International sport differs from club sport in that any country only has a finite amount of players with a very high level of ability.

Umar Akmal already averaged 36 in Tests in SENA even before he matured. And now he has to get in a queue behind players of far less ability? He's 29, and clearly at the peak of his red ball career.

Yet Pakistan appears to have elected to implement a "Take Your Turn" system, designed to ensure that either

1. Like Fawad Alam, you only get your turn when you are already in age-related decline, or
2. Like Abid Ali, you only get your turn in the final 2 years before age dulls your powers, rather than being able to serve your country for longer.

It's mad. I don't care what happened when he last played ODI's. Umar Akmal is clearly Pakistan's second best red ball player behind Babar Azam, and this endless invention of excuses for omitting him is just crazy!

Comparing his career to Babar Azam is ridiculous . Babar and his test average are on the increase whilst Akmals was in freefall.

Regardless of where you play 2 half centuries in 26 innings is not good enough. He was rightly dropped.
Also you mention SENA. They present Akmal with the best opportunities to score runs . As if you look at his average in UAE in one day matches it barely touches 30. So had he played his matches in UAE his average would be less .

Why don’t you care if he never scored 50 in 5 one day matches . How does that bode well for a test recall when you don’t know how to construct an innings and not shown the selectors that you can perform and adapt .

He is not clearly the second best batsman behind babar in red ball cricket . He’s had over 200 international matches for Pakistan and not settled in any format . Despite numerous chances.

Let’s give him a chance . They play England again in July . If he gets selected and does not do well, what’s the argument going to be? He played in SENA . Not fair .

Some others have had long ropes . But so did Akmal . It was his job to get back in the team . His one day form would have got him into the test team eventually. But the guy just does not deliver .

Yes he’s got a 200 but it’s the same innings in which a few others including Azhar got a 120. He made hay in the sun, credit where it’s due but it does not give him licence to walk in to the team .

 

[The Viper]

With respect, this sums up the bind that Umar Akmal now finds himself in.

He was dropped forever from the Test team at the age of 21 years and 3 months. He had an average of 35.82 even though he only ever played a single innings in Asia.

You say that he had 2 fifties in his final 26 Test innings. Sure, but Azhar Ali only has 1 fifty in his last 17 Test innings outside Asia, and Haris Sohail has 0 Test fifties in his entire career of 8 innings outside Asia.

More to the point, Umar Akmal's final 3 Tests - all outside Asia - produced scores of 33, 47, 56, 30 and 15.

So Umar Akmal was thrown out of Test cricket at the age of 21 with an average of 35.82, compiled almost entirely outside Asia.

His cousin Babar Azam took until his 21st Test, at Cape Town in January 2019, to reach Umar Akmal's average. But he was given 21 Tests to do so, and was persisted with until he was 3 years older.

So it's pretty obvious that Umar Akmal was prematurely discarded from the Test team. And yes, he was immature - most 21 year olds are, and he wasted his career drifting aimlessly for years, while Younis, Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq were untouchable as the middle-order, even to players like Fawad Alam who were grinding out the runs.

But the argument was always "we know he is more gifted than any other Pakistani - apart from his cousin Babar - but he needs to go away, grow up and show that he can knuckle down and play long red ball innings."

Yes, it took him years. But he has now been Man of the Match in back-to-back Quaid-e-Azam Finals, and he is scoring the big runs he was told to against the red ball.

And now we are told that he has to go back and join an imaginary queue, and wait his turn?

What kind of nonsense is this? International sport differs from club sport in that any country only has a finite amount of players with a very high level of ability.

Umar Akmal already averaged 36 in Tests in SENA even before he matured. And now he has to get in a queue behind players of far less ability? He's 29, and clearly at the peak of his red ball career.

Yet Pakistan appears to have elected to implement a "Take Your Turn" system, designed to ensure that either

1. Like Fawad Alam, you only get your turn when you are already in age-related decline, or
2. Like Abid Ali, you only get your turn in the final 2 years before age dulls your powers, rather than being able to serve your country for longer.

It's mad. I don't care what happened when he last played ODI's. Umar Akmal is clearly Pakistan's second best red ball player behind Babar Azam, and this endless invention of excuses for omitting him is just crazy!

Babar displayed his quality, temperament and ablity to score big in ODI's. It was only a matter of time before he scored in tests.

Umar Akmal's brainless shot selections in LOI, meant that he was not a correct fit in Test match cricket.

Fair play to him for scoring well, and he might get a recall, yet there was a reason why Babar was persisted with.

 

[Junaids]

Babar displayed his quality, temperament and ablity to score big in ODI's. It was only a matter of time before he scored in tests.

Umar Akmal's brainless shot selections in LOI, meant that he was not a correct fit in Test match cricket.

Fair play to him for scoring well, and he might get a recall, yet there was a reason why Babar was persisted with.

I reiterate what I wrote earlier...……

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of the percentage of innings that he scored at least 40.

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of how rarely he was dismissed for less than 20.

The error was in dumping him at the age of 21, when Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq failed more often, and succeeded less often.

 

[Zaz]

I reiterate what I wrote earlier...……

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of the percentage of innings that he scored at least 40.

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of how rarely he was dismissed for less than 20.

The error was in dumping him at the age of 21, when Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq failed more often, and succeeded less often.

Even if this 40 stat is true its irrelevant

Since when did this low arbitrary made up figure become a judge of a quality of a batsman?

40 doesnt win you tests big runs do 100s do So your basis of sucess and failure is utter tripe

He didnt outperform the players mentioned By repeating this in every post doesnt make it true

 

[ElRaja]

I reiterate what I wrote earlier...……

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of the percentage of innings that he scored at least 40.

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of how rarely he was dismissed for less than 20.

The error was in dumping him at the age of 21, when Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq failed more often, and succeeded less often.

whilst i agree with you that being dropped at 21 and not getting a look in again is unfair your criteria to justify it r strange, scoring 40 but not converting it is pretty useless in test cricket

to add to that he wasn't dropped because of his scores alone, it was the way he kept getting out, trying to pull and top edging spinners, wacking wide balls to third man etc, added to which there was a video of him (leaked) where he stated his game wasn't meant for test cricket and he really only cared abt odis.

 

[CricketDon]

WHAT AN INNINGS! WOW! He should never have been dropped at 21. He should of been in place of the mental midget Asad Shafiq. The king of soft runs. If this does not bring him back into the test side, then we derserve to become the next minnow.

 

[Nasty Naz]

No. Because he is bad.

The end.

 

[azimiqbal]

To be honest I think he was treated harshly, my advice to him would be to keep his down and keep performing , one innings won’t get him back into Pakistan team , but is next year he is leading runs scorer, then he will get a chance

 

[Junaids]

whilst i agree with you that being dropped at 21 and not getting a look in again is unfair your criteria to justify it r strange, scoring 40 but not converting it is pretty useless in test cricket

to add to that he wasn't dropped because of his scores alone, it was the way he kept getting out, trying to pull and top edging spinners, wacking wide balls to third man etc, added to which there was a video of him (leaked) where he stated his game wasn't meant for test cricket and he really only cared abt odis.

Scoring 40 for me is far more important than scoring hundreds.

Consider the run of 12 Tests in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia from 2012 to 2017.

This is precisely the period in which Umar Akmal should have been playing, aged 22 to 27.

All four of Pakistan's middle-order batsmen had the same problem. They would make 1 century per series, and not even reach 50 in any other innings.

The consequence of this was 2 wins in London, and 10 defeats.

Batsmen need to put partnerships together. If you come in at 80-1 and score 40, the earliest you're going to get out is around 160-2.

If you reliably score 40 in most innings, then you are always moving 80-1 to 160-2, or 160-2 to 240-3.

Far too often, Azhar, Shafiq, Misbah and Younis outside Asia moved 40-1 to 45-2. Or they moved 160-4 into 170-5.

This is why Alastair Cook retired before he could be dropped. He had reached that Misbah/Younis/Azhar/Shafiq stage of 1 big innings per series, largely preserving his average but dropping his team into trouble in 5 innings out of every 6.

We actually agree that Umar Akmal was immature and foolish. And he's a bit like Kevin Pietersen or David Warner: he's an uneducated idiot who will always make silly choices.

But he has actually matured as a red-ball batsman. He has scored an innings in the QEA Final that Azhar Ali and Babar Azam were incapable of playing. And he was MoM in the last QEA Final too.

We all know that Azhar Ali will never score runs in SENA ever again, and that Misbah should have dropped him rather than making him the captain.

A number of us - myself included - are eating humble pie about Haris Sohail too. I realise now that he will never ever score runs in SENA, and never was capable of it.

Pakistan would be strengthened enormously by the replacement of Azhar Ali or of Haris Sohail by Umar Akmal in the Test team.

 

[Junaids]

To be honest I think he was treated harshly, my advice to him would be to keep his down and keep performing , one innings won’t get him back into Pakistan team , but is next year he is leading runs scorer, then he will get a chance

He has been Man of the Match in two consecutive QEA domestic First Class Finals, aged 28 and 29.

In between he averaged 61 with the bat, and across the season scored as many runs as Fawad Alam.

Making him "wait in line" just deprives the national Test team of the second best batsman available, and risks him being recalled only after he has started an age-related decline.

 

[GreenKhan]

I reiterate what I wrote earlier...……

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of the percentage of innings that he scored at least 40.

Umar Akmal outperformed Misbah, Younis, Shafiq and Azhar in Tests in terms of how rarely he was dismissed for less than 20.

The error was in dumping him at the age of 21, when Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq failed more often, and succeeded less often.

Misbah had a test average of 47. Younis 50. Akmal has a first class average of 43!

So whatever way you look at it he was never going to exceed them in test cricket . Azhar Ali was a also a solid player for Pakistan and even after his decline his test average is similar to Akmals first class average.

The only player he could potentially have done better than is Assad shafiq, and that is a big “if”.
Akmal after 60 tests would still be averaging 35 or even less. His career trajectory in international cricket suggests nothing different .

 

[Zaz]

Scoring 40 for me is far more important than scoring hundreds.

Consider the run of 12 Tests in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia from 2012 to 2017.

This is precisely the period in which Umar Akmal should have been playing, aged 22 to 27.

All four of Pakistan's middle-order batsmen had the same problem. They would make 1 century per series, and not even reach 50 in any other innings.

The consequence of this was 2 wins in London, and 10 defeats.

Batsmen need to put partnerships together. If you come in at 80-1 and score 40, the earliest you're going to get out is around 160-2.

If you reliably score 40 in most innings, then you are always moving 80-1 to 160-2, or 160-2 to 240-3.

Far too often, Azhar, Shafiq, Misbah and Younis outside Asia moved 40-1 to 45-2. Or they moved 160-4 into 170-5.

This is why Alastair Cook retired before he could be dropped. He had reached that Misbah/Younis/Azhar/Shafiq stage of 1 big innings per series, largely preserving his average but dropping his team into trouble in 5 innings out of every 6.

We actually agree that Umar Akmal was immature and foolish. And he's a bit like Kevin Pietersen or David Warner: he's an uneducated idiot who will always make silly choices.

But he has actually matured as a red-ball batsman. He has scored an innings in the QEA Final that Azhar Ali and Babar Azam were incapable of playing. And he was MoM in the last QEA Final too.

We all know that Azhar Ali will never score runs in SENA ever again, and that Misbah should have dropped him rather than making him the captain.

A number of us - myself included - are eating humble pie about Haris Sohail too. I realise now that he will never ever score runs in SENA, and never was capable of it.

Pakistan would be strengthened enormously by the replacement of Azhar Ali or of Haris Sohail by Umar Akmal in the Test team.

Theres nothing to suggest akmal will be a success in test cricket His career trajectory in both odis and t20s has been downhill since he first started 10 yrs ago

He avges 44 in fc cricket has 16 fc hundreds hardly stats of a warner or a peitersen in waiting

And to say akmals played an innings that babar azam is incapable of playing is laughable and just sums up the ludicrous nature of your posting on this matter

 

[Slog]

Can we just give him 6 test innings again and put this discussion to bed once and for all. He cant certainly do any worse than Haris Sohail or our legendary 38 averaging Asad Shafiq.

If he does come back though it will be important to allow him to play the way he wants to play. I feel he has tried to put too much thinking into his game in the past which hasnt helped him.

Very good chance he’ll do worse than a 38 average. Almost certain that over a 6 Test match period his average will be less than that.

In any case Fawad deserves chance before Umar

 

[Slog]

With respect, this sums up the bind that Umar Akmal now finds himself in.

He was dropped forever from the Test team at the age of 21 years and 3 months. He had an average of 35.82 even though he only ever played a single innings in Asia.

You say that he had 2 fifties in his final 26 Test innings. Sure, but Azhar Ali only has 1 fifty in his last 17 Test innings outside Asia, and Haris Sohail has 0 Test fifties in his entire career of 8 innings outside Asia.

More to the point, Umar Akmal's final 3 Tests - all outside Asia - produced scores of 33, 47, 56, 30 and 15.

So Umar Akmal was thrown out of Test cricket at the age of 21 with an average of 35.82, compiled almost entirely outside Asia.

His cousin Babar Azam took until his 21st Test, at Cape Town in January 2019, to reach Umar Akmal's average. But he was given 21 Tests to do so, and was persisted with until he was 3 years older.

So it's pretty obvious that Umar Akmal was prematurely discarded from the Test team. And yes, he was immature - most 21 year olds are, and he wasted his career drifting aimlessly for years, while Younis, Misbah, Azhar and Shafiq were untouchable as the middle-order, even to players like Fawad Alam who were grinding out the runs.

But the argument was always "we know he is more gifted than any other Pakistani - apart from his cousin Babar - but he needs to go away, grow up and show that he can knuckle down and play long red ball innings."

Yes, it took him years. But he has now been Man of the Match in back-to-back Quaid-e-Azam Finals, and he is scoring the big runs he was told to against the red ball.

And now we are told that he has to go back and join an imaginary queue, and wait his turn?

What kind of nonsense is this? International sport differs from club sport in that any country only has a finite amount of players with a very high level of ability.

Umar Akmal already averaged 36 in Tests in SENA even before he matured. And now he has to get in a queue behind players of far less ability? He's 29, and clearly at the peak of his red ball career.

Yet Pakistan appears to have elected to implement a "Take Your Turn" system, designed to ensure that either

1. Like Fawad Alam, you only get your turn when you are already in age-related decline, or
2. Like Abid Ali, you only get your turn in the final 2 years before age dulls your powers, rather than being able to serve your country for longer.

It's mad. I don't care what happened when he last played ODI's. Umar Akmal is clearly Pakistan's second best red ball player behind Babar Azam, and this endless invention of excuses for omitting him is just crazy!

When you say he averages 35 outside Asia and pointing to his last few scores you conveniently forget they were against Zimbabwe and West Indies.

What really tells you the state of this lads test career was that if you take out his debut test where he had beginners luck, his career Test average drops to the 20s.

Also. His only innings of note on the England tour was in the very last innings of the tour when the spot fixing scandal had broken out, no one was taking the game seriously and he hacked his way to a 75+ I believe.

 

[GreenKhan]

When you say he averages 35 outside Asia and pointing to his last few scores you conveniently forget they were against Zimbabwe and West Indies.

What really tells you the state of this lads test career was that if you take out his debut test where he had beginners luck, his career Test average drops to the 20s.

Also. His only innings of note on the England tour was in the very last innings of the tour when the spot fixing scandal had broken out, no one was taking the game seriously and he hacked his way to a 75+ I believe.

Great observation. The original post still goes on about SENA, and his runs there. He averaged 24 in the 6 tests he played in England, with the 1 50.

He averaged 33 in Australia. His debut series he averaged 63 in New Zealand which is superb, but he did get a long rope after that. In fact he got such a long rope that he was dropped after scoring 3 50s in 24 innings.

Had Umar played his 16 tests in UAE he would have averaged less as quite frankly he cant play a substantial innings in these conditions at the international level. Just look at his ODI average in UAE.

 

[Mobashir]

Will love to see him a permanent member of all 3 teams for the next 4 years. That could really help our team. I am sure batting with Babar will also help him quite a lot.

Should be our number 3 in T20's, number 4 in ODI's and number 5 in Tests. Just one place behind Babar.

If Misbah had not mistreated him in 2010 he may have become a great player.

 

[moghul]

Door should never be closed on any player at any time. One can drop a player for not performing but he has all the right to claim a call back on sheer weight of performance and Umar Akmal doing just that. I think his "metal issues " are overblown. Blame also goes to poor man management skills of his captain and coach in the past for Umar's lack of progress.

 

[topspin]

Will love to see him a permanent member of all 3 teams for the next 4 years. That could really help our team. I am sure batting with Babar will also help him quite a lot.

Should be our number 3 in T20's, number 4 in ODI's and number 5 in Tests. Just one place behind Babar.

If Misbah had not mistreated him in 2010 he may have become a great player.

Bang on here.

There's no doubt he was mistreated by Misbah.

 

[Monsee]

Ask him to show commitment to getting back in team by doing the following:

- Lose at least 30 pounds (probably more like 50 these days)
- Zip his lips and stops criticizing anyone
- Stop coming up with conspiracy theories
- No Green Lipstick or any lip gloss period
- Start playing a bit straight (no leg side hoicks) and show that he wants to play long innings by putting a price on his wicket
- Disown his elder brother Mr. ButterCup Hands
- No more of those rap videos
- Quit Twitter/social media

 

[Cric1234]

Misbah had a test average of 47. Younis 50. Akmal has a first class average of 43!

So whatever way you look at it he was never going to exceed them in test cricket . Azhar Ali was a also a solid player for Pakistan and even after his decline his test average is similar to Akmals first class average.

The only player he could potentially have done better than is Assad shafiq, and that is a big “if”.
Akmal after 60 tests would still be averaging 35 or even less. His career trajectory in international cricket suggests nothing different .

45/70 stats will mean he’s better than Misbah and close to Younis I can say safely he will do better than Shafiq long term.

 

[SARJ_BD]

One 200 and suddenly people think he should be in the test team. What about all those player who have been hitting centuries after centuries through out the season?

 

[Cric1234]

Shan
Abid
Azhar
Babar
Akmal
Saud
Rizwan

Ideally Azhar will be dropped as well soon as he’s a liability in most conditions now.

 

[Sunny_majoka]

Ask him to show commitment to getting back in team by doing the following:

- Lose at least 30 pounds (probably more like 50 these days)
- Zip his lips and stops criticizing anyone
- Stop coming up with conspiracy theories
- No Green Lipstick or any lip gloss period
- Start playing a bit straight (no leg side hoicks) and show that he wants to play long innings by putting a price on his wicket
- Disown his elder brother Mr. ButterCup Hands
- No more of those rap videos
- Quit Twitter/social media

You're setting very tough criteria for him

 

[Monsee]

You're setting very tough criteria for him

Is that not fair to us, for making us go through the torture of wtaching this fool make even a bigger fool of himself all over the tv/social media etc?

 

[Darkrai]

It's time for the special one to make his return.

 

[CadPakFan]

Ask him to show commitment to getting back in team by doing the following:

- Lose at least 30 pounds (probably more like 50 these days)
- Zip his lips and stops criticizing anyone
- Stop coming up with conspiracy theories
- No Green Lipstick or any lip gloss period
- Start playing a bit straight (no leg side hoicks) and show that he wants to play long innings by putting a price on his wicket
- Disown his elder brother Mr. ButterCup Hands
- No more of those rap videos
- Quit Twitter/social media

I think this is pretty fair, he needs to show he isn't the same Umar Akmal who'd play a couple good shots and quickly get get out to a leg side hoick.

 

[Sunny_majoka]

Is that not fair to us, for making us go through the torture of wtaching this fool make even a bigger fool of himself all over the tv/social media etc?

Yeah. You're right It was terrible watching him on TV doing all the stunts and with green lipstick.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

Ask him to show commitment to getting back in team by doing the following:

- Lose at least 30 pounds (probably more like 50 these days)
- Zip his lips and stops criticizing anyone
- Stop coming up with conspiracy theories
- No Green Lipstick or any lip gloss period
- Start playing a bit straight (no leg side hoicks) and show that he wants to play long innings by putting a price on his wicket
- Disown his elder brother Mr. ButterCup Hands
- No more of those rap videos
- Quit Twitter/social media

Wouldn’t be able to achieve even one of it. That’s why he is out and stays there forever

 

[Shoaibbtt]

In the words of a wise man. Umar akmal is about as useful as the “k” in knife

 

[iniqbal223]

And when we get beaten , we deserve all the humiliation because of some of the fans and supporters, especially in media with their love for akmals. This animal cancer will haunt Pakistan cricket for generations to come. He recently scored 2 golden ducks in front of home crowd against C team of SL, yet Waheed Khan is asking for his return stating that he was wasted. Does Akmals pay to media to say good things about them? I guess so, otherwise no sane mind would even think of Akmals these days. They do not deserve a place in Kenya team, forget about Pak national team. Obviously Asif Ali is not the answer for 6/7 order batting, so get rid of him, and find any genuine player.

I am no Misbah fan, but at least that guy has guts to stay at crease and bail out our batting, when we could have been all out for 100 runs in many ODIs. Comparing UA with Misbah is another crazy stuff that people do. Cricket is professional sport, and players get replaced by others who perform, and here we are making case for those who did not perform at all, have worst work ethics, hacks few 100s at domestic level, knowing that they are found out by the international teams and will forever struggle, still we need them in the team...

 

[iniqbal223]

Do Akmals bribe journalists to misrepresent their performances ?

Recently I have seen a journalist in one of his shows say that Umar Akmal deserved to be in team, as he was rated at 4/5 batting position. Is he crazy? The guy just scored 2 golden ducks on home soil in front of our crowd, yet he still wants him in the team. There is no other justification other then bribing the journalists to mislead the poor public of Pakistan...

 

[Haripotter]

Umar akmal is the only way Pakistan can win the T20 World Cup. 2 balls is a small sample size to judge a player.
Need to support in a similar way as Fawad Alam got in PP

 

[Rellu_Katta]

and i thght i wont be hearing anything stupid today ... but then i read this post..

Umar Akmal is everything tht is wrong with pak cricket.... 1-2 good innings and he thght he was irreplaceable and stopped working on his cricket and got out of his skin....

also, CPL, BBL, BPL wont touch this guy with a meter long stick,,, surprised why would tht be lol bc they know this guy is a nuisance so shld be kept miles away

 

[mahmed]

Umer Akmal have no place in Test's and ODI's, he can be tried in T20 as a WK/Batsman and play him at #4.

 

[FreePalestine]

Fawad Alam ahead of him. I am sure plenty of other players have also scored big runs on these flat tracks this season.

Stats should not be ignored because of his personality, but through this thread, people have identified that his batting has not evolved. Hoicks to the legside will not cut it against Cummins, Rabada, Nortje, Archer level quick bowlers..

I think there are two or three famous deserving batsmen in fc cricket who have been performing for many years. Why don’t they get more attention?

 

[Bullet Drive]

Needs to be selected in our test team.

You recently had Iftikhar Ahmed playing over him, lol.

Iftikhar is at least 37+ and is awful.

 

[Junaids]

Fawad Alam ahead of him. I am sure plenty of other players have also scored big runs on these flat tracks this season.

Stats should not be ignored because of his personality, but through this thread, people have identified that his batting has not evolved. Hoicks to the legside will not cut it against Cummins, Rabada, Nortje, Archer level quick bowlers..

I think there are two or three famous deserving batsmen in fc cricket who have been performing for many years. Why don’t they get more attention?

Why is “performing for many years” a criterion - it’s a pathway to picking veterans in decline.

Faced with a choice between a 29 year old who has been Man of the Match in consecutive QEA Finals, or a 34 year old I would never pick the 34 year old.

 

[BaankeJi]

Recently I have seen a journalist in one of his shows say that Umar Akmal deserved to be in team, as he was rated at 4/5 batting position. Is he crazy? The guy just scored 2 golden ducks on home soil in front of our crowd, yet he still wants him in the team. There is no other justification other then bribing the journalists to mislead the poor public of Pakistan...

2 golden ducks were in T20 - not in tests. Can't mix the formats. If he is performing in first class games in domestics, he should be selected in national team.