Vintage Photos of Cricketers...but you have to guess who it is!!

[shakil]

Azeem Hafeez ?

Congrats! You have won 1 aana

 

[shakil]

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[Saurav]

 

[shakil]

Yes. His eyes are still the same

 

[Khaleefa]

Congrats! You have won 1 aana

Yar water cooler na sahi, aik glass thanda paani he deydo .. aik aanay mein tou wo bhi nahi aata.

 

[akheR]

in 1962

 

[W63L35]

^^ Nice!!!


I know, it is video and this is a picture thread.... but I did not want to create a thread just for this!

[utube]BqGJmf8W3J8[/utube]

 

[Saurav]

))

 

[LethalSami]

^^ Nice!!!


I know, it is video and this is a picture thread.... but I did not want to create a thread just for this!

this should be in "Is Umar Gul AWFUL thread"!!!

 

[W63L35]

Two pictures of the same Pakistani player....


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[shakil]

^ Afridis children are pretty much like his childhood pictures

 

[W63L35]

^ Afridis children are pretty much like his childhood pictures

That was an easy one.... how about this... which also kind of easy but let's see...


A kid in this group has captained his country....


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[bleed green]

That was an easy one.... how about this... which also kind of easy but let's see...


A kid in this group has captained his country....


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one and only mahela with confused eyes

 

[W63L35]

one and only mahela with confused eyes

I told you it was easy!

 

[W63L35]

Who is on the left?


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[saeed-sohail]

^^ Misbah??

 

[Zarrar]

Who is on the left?


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Hammad Azam

 

[akheR]

 

[akheR]

Some

 

[Dr Khan]

That was an easy one.... how about this... which also kind of easy but let's see...


A kid in this group has captained his country....


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Is it Mahela? if it is then he still looks the same

 

[W63L35]

Hammad Azam

Yes!

 

[LethalSami]

with some of these pics u guys got....

...seems like a stalker

i admit to downloading all the pics of that goddess from fb/google......but that's fine

whatchu guys upto with all those pics ain't

 

[W63L35]

Some

Thanks again... for some great pics...


OK... can somebody answer the questions about the picture below (that akhaR posted)?

1) Who is the player standing between Mansoor and Rashid?

2) Which tour is this? If I have to guess, it is 1983-84 tour of Australin (tri-series) but according to scorecards, Sarfraz Nawaz, Saleem Malik and Ijaz Faqih also played on that tour. Yet they are not in the picture.

Sarfraz played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65356.html

Ijaz Faqih & Saleem Malik played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65368.html

 

[akheR]

i admit to downloading all the pics of that goddess from fb/google......but that's fine

Simply take them from different FB fan pages, obviously all due credits to the original uploader(s)... here some in his hot days just for ya' (tried to post pics where he's with others too, so not a one man show... not totally at least)

Enjoy

Exclusively dedicated to GentleMan :umarakmal

Can't believe peoples talk of Keith Miller when it comes to the most charismatic one... it's either Immy or Fazal Mahmood (not being patriotic here )

 

[Front Foot]

God I wish I had Immy's looks and charisma..

 

[akheR]

Thanks again... for some great pics...


OK... can somebody answer the questions about the picture below (that akhaR posted)?

1) Who is the player standing between Mansoor and Rashid?

2) Which tour is this? If I have to guess, it is 1983-84 tour of Australin (tri-series) but according to scorecards, Sarfraz Nawaz, Saleem Malik and Ijaz Faqih also played on that tour. Yet they are not in the picture.

Sarfraz played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65356.html

Ijaz Faqih & Saleem Malik played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65368.html

I think you're right, but after doing a bit of research it seems that whoever this guy is he didn't play a single game... he obviously isn't Saleem Malik nor Sarfraz Nawaz, and that's how the spinner Ijaz Faqih looks like

so that's not him either...



...enigma.

Didn't know the WK Ashraf Ali

Nor Nazir Jr who, for info, is with Afridi the only spinner of the 10 Pakistani Test bowlers who took a 5-fer on debut (the 8 other obviously being fast bowlers)

 

[LethalSami]

guys, lets keep it Pg-13.........

nice pics nevertheless

 

[GentleMan]

why is this thread meant only for pak players? some indian faces needed too.

 

[LethalSami]

why don't you go make ur own thread...

this is a contamination-free zone

 

[akheR]

OK... can somebody answer the questions about the picture below (that akhaR posted)?

1) Who is the player standing between Mansoor and Rashid?

2) Which tour is this? If I have to guess, it is 1983-84 tour of Australin (tri-series) but according to scorecards, Sarfraz Nawaz, Saleem Malik and Ijaz Faqih also played on that tour. Yet they are not in the picture.

I was just reading a FB comment on that post, and I think we have our man : Atiq-ur-Rehman

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/39280.html

NFP in his 'Crazy Diamonds' had few words about him :

A few years after Imran Khan was officially recorded as the third fastest bowler (in 1979) in the world – behind Australia’s Jeff Thomson and the West Indian tearaway Michael Holding and ahead of Australia’s Dennis Lillie – and before Pakistan cricket began firing in a spat of genuine pace men in the shape of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Muhammad Zahid, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami, there was one Atiqur Rehman.

Even the most passionate Pakistani cricket fans know very little or maybe nothing about a bowler who could have become the Waqar Younis or Shoaib Akhtar of the 1980s.

Those who are old enough to remember the 1983 Sri Lankan Under-19 team’s tour of Pakistan, may remember the sight of a young 17-year-old fast bowler from Karachi who was terrorising batsmen with sharp, fast and awkwardly rising deliveries even on the most placid of wickets.

Yet, Rehman failed to play in even a single Test or an ODI.

Arriving on the scene in 1982, by 1986 he was history (rather, a footnote).

Born in 1965 in Karachi, Rehman grew up playing cricket on the streets of Karachi and then on the cemented pitches of the city.

Australia’s Jeff Thomson (who, in 1975, had been recorded to have bowled deliveries that clocked up to 99 mph), became Rehman’s ideal.

Thomson’s record was finally broken by Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar in 2003 when one of his deliveries clocked at 100.2 mph!

At just 17, Rehman was knocking out some of Karachi’s finest club cricketers, but his rebellious and hotheaded temperament meant his advent into first-class cricket was halted by those who could have put his name up for Pakistan’s first-class teams to consider.

Nevertheless, in 1983, the then Pakistan cricket team’s manager, Intikhab Alam, while looking for bowlers who were good enough to bowl at the team’s front line batsmen in the nets, spotted Rehman playing a club game at Karachi’s Bakhtiari Youth Centre.

Impressed by Rehman’s pace, Intikhab asked him to report the next day at the National Stadium where the Pakistan team was practicing in the nets just before a Test series.

Rehman was one of the many young bowlers who were called up for the nets. However, when it came the turn for Pakistan’s two most talented and premier batsmen, Zaheer Abbas and Javed Miandad, to get some batting practice, Intikhab tossed the ball over to Rehman.

He bowled straight and fast to Miandad, who hopped around a bit, but negotiated Rehman’s pace pretty well.

He didn’t say anything and moved away to make room for Zaheer.

Zaheer too hopped around, but played Rehman’s straight, fast ones well until the young 17-year-old changed tact.

He delivered a vicious bouncer that rose and headed straight between Zaheer’s eyes. Zaheer jumped and just managed to block the ball from hitting his face with his left glove.

Shaken, Zaheer received another fast bouncer that almost knocked him off his feet.

Bruised and angry, Zaheer threw away his bat and began to hurl abuses at the young pace man. ‘Are you trying to kill me?’ he shouted.

But Rehman had had his moment. Right away he was picked to lead the pace attack for Pakistan U-19 team’s series against the Sri Lankan U-19s.

In that series he sent at least three young Lankan batsmen to the hospital, and it was during this series he caught the eye of Imran Khan who went on record to suggest: ‘This kid is bowling as fast as I am …’

Khan was out of the team at the time, suffering from a serious back injury. Zaheer had taken over the captaincy from him for Pakistan’s 1983 tour of India. Right away he insisted Rehman’s inclusion in the touring squad.

But Rehman could only get one game on the tour – a well-attended and televised day-night charity ODI against the Indian team.

After making a few Indian batmen hop and jump, Rehman got carried away and began bowling bouncers, most of them flying over the wicketkeeper’s head.

Warned by the umpires, he was taken off by the captain. Then, he got embroiled in some disciplinary issues with the team management and was sent back home.

In Pakistan he managed to get a contract from Habib Bank’s cricket team on the behest of the team’s captain, Javed Miandad.

When Imran returned as captain in late 1983 (though he was still struggling to bowl), he picked Rehman for Pakistan’s 1983-84 tour of Australia. Rehman bowled quick in some side games but broke down before the first Test.

He regained his fitness but his hotheadedness got the better of him. While visiting a club with some players in Melbourne, he got into a fight with some locals. He was immediately sent back home.

Imran suggested he start playing English County cricket to refine his talent, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided to coach him at home.

PCB’s top coach at the time, former fast bowler Khan Muhammad, was given the task of training and ‘disciplining’ Rehman. The first thing he did was to ask the young bowler to change his action. Bad idea.

Immediately Rehman lost much of his pace and bite. But the coach and Habib Bank insisted that he bowl with his new action.

By 1985 the young 20-year-old had fallen into a state of depression. Clearly losing pace and the fear factor with his new (enforced action) he tried to defy the PCB coach by reverting back to his action. But the sudden reversion wrecked his back.

In early 1986, after the end of the last day of a first-class game in Karachi, he disgustingly picked up his kit and left the ground never to come back.

He was just 21 when he decided to ‘retire’ and slip into oblivion.

http://dawn.com/2012/12/06/crazy-diamonds-iv/

So that's why he didn't play a single game... also there are chances that it's the only cricketing picture of the chap we'll ever get...

 

[W63L35]

I was just reading a FB comment on that post, and I think we have our man : Atiq-ur-Rehman

Brilliant detective work! I am pretty sure you are right!
http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Players/18/18920/18920.html

But Rehman could only get one game on the tour – a well-attended and televised day-night charity ODI against the Indian team.

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Scorecards/141/141520.html

 

[akheR]

http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Scorecards/141/141520.html

One of the bowlers being the pacer Jalal-ud-Din, nowadays best known as one of Pak's most professional coaches, but was also the first to take a hat-trick in ODIs, v Australia, in 1982.

...Jalal-ud-Din, Imran's replacement, took the first hat-trick in a one-day international against Australia. With the fourth, fifth and sixth balls of his seventh over, he bowled Marsh, had Yardley caught at the wicket and bowled Lawson.

5-162 (Marsh), 6-162 (Yardley), 7-162 (Lawson)

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64193.html

 

[akheR]

One of PAK's best opening pair,

Saeed Anwar

and Aamer Sohail

Mohsin Kamal, fast bowler

Tauseef Ahmed, if Lionel Richie chose to be a spinner instead of singer

Mohsin Khan, has a 200 @ Lord's as an opener and few off-field success in Bollywood too

A(nother) good picture of

 

[akheR]

Brilliant detective work! I am pretty sure you are right!
http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Players/18/18920/18920.html



http://www.pcboard.com.pk/Scorecards/141/141520.html

Pictures of the man!

He's still active in cricket, head coach of HBL I think!

 

[W63L35]

^^

Confirmed!!! It is Atiq.


Kerry Packer... WSC

OK Akher... how many players you can name?

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[kamranwasti]

^^

Confirmed!!! It is Atiq.


Kerry Packer... WSC

OK Akher... how many players you can name?

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Just a quick one..

Front row - Left to right
Tony Greig, Lawrence Rowe, Dennis Amiss, David Hookes, Imran Khan, Bernard Julien, Allan Knott
Second row
Wayne Daniel, Deryck Murray, Doug Walters, Len Pascoe, Asif Iqbal, Zaheer Abbas, Gordon Greenidge
Third Row
Collis King, Ian Davis, Rod Marsh, Wayne Prior, Majid Khan, Martin Kent
Fourth Row
Mushtaq Muhammad, Jim Allen, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards (in beard), Trevor Chappell,
Fifth Row
Andy Roberts, Rick McCosker, Bob Woolmer, Gary Gilmour, Ross Edwards, Max Walker, Dennis Lillee
Sixth Row
Kerry O'Keefe, Richie Robinson, Ian Chappell, Garth McKenzie, Eddie Barlow, Derek Underwood, Bruce Laird
Seventh Row
Mike Proctor, Clive Lloyd, Michael Holding, Ray Bright, Ashley Mallett, John Snow
Last Row,
David Holford, Joel Garner, Albert Padmore, Ian Redpath, Mick Malone, Roy Fredricks, Viv Richards

 

[kamranwasti]

2) Which tour is this? If I have to guess, it is 1983-84 tour of Australin (tri-series) but according to scorecards, Sarfraz Nawaz, Saleem Malik and Ijaz Faqih also played on that tour. Yet they are not in the picture.

All three were not part of the original touring squad and only joined at Imran's behest.

Sarfraz had been deemed unfit but Imran, who believed in having experienced bowlers in his side, has his way and he immediately took wickets (not many admittedly) as well as offered control to help a struggling bowling line-up. Azeem Hafeez was only in his second series and though he took wickets (ironically still a record for a Pakistani in Australia - 19), he gave almost 40 runs per wicket and Abdul Qadir was countered with the Australians packing their batting line-up with six left-handers. Others were ordinary (as in case of Tahir Naqqash), benign (Rashid Khan) and economical but ineffective (Nazir Junior). Sarfraz stepped in to provide valuable support.

Saleem Malik was again not part of the touring team and was againt called up because of Imran and immediately scored runs.

Ijaz Faqih was a personal favourite with both Miandad and Imran. He was a prolific off-spin bowling all-rounder who at one point held the record for most first-class wickets in a Pakistani season (may be he still does). With the Nazir Junior almost 40 and ineffective, Ijaz Faqih was called up to provide spin-bowling back-up to Pakistan. He would make two more comebacks: The first on in India in 1987 where he scored a hundred and then bowled Srikant with his first delivery in Ahmadabad and then a year later in the West Indies where he replaced the injured Tauseef Ahmad.

 

[W63L35]

Just a quick one..

Wow.... thank you!
I was able to name all except these;
Albert Padmore, Ashley Mallett, Bruce Laird, David Holford, Garth McKenzie, Ian Davis, Jim Allen, Kerry O'Keefe, Martin Kent, Mick Malone, Richie Robinson, Rick McCosker, Ross Edwards, Wayne Prior,

All three were not part of the original touring squad and only joined at Imran's behest.

Sarfraz had been deemed unfit but Imran, who believed in having experienced bowlers in his side, has his way and he immediately took wickets (not many admittedly) as well as offered control to help a struggling bowling line-up.

Azeem Hafeez was only in his second series and though he took wickets (ironically still a record for a Pakistani in Australia - 19), he gave almost 40 runs per wicket and Abdul Qadir was countered with the Australians packing their batting line-up with six left-handers. Others were ordinary (as in case of Tahir Naqqash), benign (Rashid Khan) and economical but ineffective (Nazir Junior). Sarfraz stepped in to provide valuable support.

Well, I am confused because when I was looking the score cards the day Akher posted that picture, it seems like Sarfraz was sent home after playing 5 of the WSC matches ... and not recalled. Please see this.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/guru?...llowon=0;recent=;keeper=0;.cgifields=viewtype

Saleem Malik was again not part of the touring team and was again called up because of Imran and immediately scored runs.

Yet, he was played in only last 3 out of 10 ODIs.

Ijaz Faqih was a personal favourite with both Miandad and Imran. He was a prolific off-spin bowling all-rounder who at one point held the record for most first-class wickets in a Pakistani season (may be he still does). With the Nazir Junior almost 40 and ineffective, Ijaz Faqih was called up to provide spin-bowling back-up to Pakistan. He would make two more comebacks: The first on in India in 1987 where he scored a hundred and then bowled Srikant with his first delivery in Ahmadabad and then a year later in the West Indies where he replaced the injured Tauseef Ahmad.

Thanks for wonderful information!

The most important thing about this tour I read was, that it was a come back series for Imran ... after he suffered an injury during 1982-83 series.... when he bowled his heart out by taking 40 wickets. So, he was so determined to come back early that he joined the test tour of Australia during the series... and played the last two tests just as a batsman.... and of course during the 10 ODIs, he never bowled a single ball.

 

[umarf76]

I think you're right, but after doing a bit of research it seems that whoever this guy is he didn't play a single game... he obviously isn't Saleem Malik nor Sarfraz Nawaz, and that's how the spinner Ijaz Faqih looks like

so that's not him either...



...enigma.

Didn't know the WK Ashraf Ali

Nor Nazir Jr who, for info, is with Afridi the only spinner of the 10 Pakistani Test bowlers who took a 5-fer on debut (the 8 other obviously being fast bowlers)

Ashraf Ali was without doubt the most irritating and talkative wicket keeper in the history of cricket.

 

[umarf76]

Thanks again... for some great pics...


OK... can somebody answer the questions about the picture below (that akhaR posted)?

1) Who is the player standing between Mansoor and Rashid?

2) Which tour is this? If I have to guess, it is 1983-84 tour of Australin (tri-series) but according to scorecards, Sarfraz Nawaz, Saleem Malik and Ijaz Faqih also played on that tour. Yet they are not in the picture.

Sarfraz played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65356.html

Ijaz Faqih & Saleem Malik played in this match;
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65368.html

That is a very good question. He is the only one I could not get either. Would be interested in the answer. Looks like a fast bowler.

 

[kamranwasti]

Well, I am confused because when I was looking the score cards the day Akher posted that picture, it seems like Sarfraz was sent home after playing 5 of the WSC matches ... and not recalled.


Yet, he was played in only last 3 out of 10 ODIs.



Thanks for wonderful information!

The most important thing about this tour I read was, that it was a come back series for Imran ... after he suffered an injury during 1982-83 series.... when he bowled his heart out by taking 40 wickets. So, he was so determined to come back early that he joined the test tour of Australia during the series... and played the last two tests just as a batsman.... and of course during the 10 ODIs, he never bowled a single ball.

Someone posted that Nadeem Farooq Paracha write-up too about Imran's return for the series in Australia - I'll give the actual picture.

Imran actually bowled a bit as a bowler after the Indian series. He bowled in one 2-innings 12-a-side match in Dubai (or may be it was Sharjah) where he scored 75 and got a few wickets too. It was immediately after that series. His injury became known after that. He played the 1983 World Cup as a batsman and topped the batting averages where he scored his only one-day hundred (rescuing Pakistan from 5 down for 44), a 30-ball 56 (both against Sri Lanka) and an absolutely brilliant 79 against New Zealand where he straight-drove Hadlee for six (Hadlee conceded almost 50 runs in his last 5 overs).

Imran actually bowled a few overs for Sussex - around 20-30 and took 12 wickets at 7 per wicket. He took his first-class hat-trick too in a spell of 6 for 6 and topped both batting and bowling averages for Sussex but all this did far great damage to his injury.

Pakistan then toured India in September (where Javed Miandad was out for 99 on Eid day) and Imran and Abdul Qadir did not go. Sarfraz was declared unfit by the selectors anyway. Indians were basically a very poor team and Pakistanis ended up drawing a series they should have won thanks to Zaheer's negative captaincy. But anyway Tahir Naqqash and Nazir Junior (almost 40 at that time) did decently enough to give the selectors false hopes.

The Australian tour was catastrophic. For starters, Zaheer Abbas engaged in his usual politics claiming that the team he was leading was not his team. Imran was then forced to join mid-way: I say forced because Pakistanis were given a 5-match series only because Channel Nine wanted to cash on Imran's presence. So he joined the team as a batsman for the Melbourne and Sydney tests. He was woefully out of form in the side games but scored 83 and 72 not out (another match-saving innings) in the Melbourne test before Pakistanis were hammered in Sydney.

Sarfraz and Saleem Malik joined the squad mid-way. Malik was never the first choice player in ODIs anyway and I remember very clearly that when he came out to bat in what would turn out to be his most famous innings (Calcutta - 72 not out, 35 balls), his average was under 20. So it is likely that he was dropped after his failures.

Sarfraz - must have been some petty reason. Frankly I cannot recall. You can make conjectures from the scorecards for yourself.

The reason why I am not 100% of the nitty gritty of the series is that PTV could not afford the money Channel Nine was charging. So not a single clip of this series (both tests and ODIs) was aired in Pakistan as far as I can recall. I was almost 30-years-younger then.

And secondly, ODIs have always taken a back seat. I am a test match fan. So cannot recall the details. All I remember is that Imran played as a batsman. By the last few games, he was injured once more. Zaheer too was no longer available so Javed Miandad led the side.

 

[kamranwasti]

On Atiq ur Rahman

Atiq was basically a bowler of raw pace and was taken on two tours where his lack of experience stood up. After that he was never in the reckoning though his name kept coming up till the New Zealand tour of 1984-85.

In late 1984, the Cricketer (English, Pakistan) profiled the domestic fast-bowlers too and Atiq was part of the list.

When Pakistanis were selecting the squad for the tour, Akhbar-e-Watan (edited by Munir Hussain) campaigned a lot for Rashid Khan, Sikander Bakht and Atiq ur Rahman's return. This became very vociferous when New Zealand racked up a record total in the first test (which was ultimately saved by the tail).

However, by that time, two things happened: The Pakistani team in New Zealand had an 18-year-old schoolboy who had earlier made his debut in a first-class match in Rawalpindi and had taken 7 for 50. Instead of recalling the dated Sikander Bakht, the hopeless Rashid Khan and the directionless Atiq, they played this kid and after taking 2 for 105 in his first outing, he had 5 for 56 and 5 for 72 in the second - Wasim Akram had come to the fore.

The other was Imran Khan's return. Instead of joining the Pakistani team in New Zealand, he landed in Sydney one fine morning and joined the Sydney University Cricket Team for a grade cricket match. He then played for New South Wales and topped their bowling averages with 28 wickets at 19, including 9 for 100 (4 for 66 and 5 for 34) in his team's Sheffield Shield Final victory over Queensland (led by Allan Border against whom Imran won a fierce tactical battle in the field and with a bowling attack of a rampaging Jeff Thomson and Carl Rackemann). He later played against the West Indies in New South Wales side match which again was won by New South Wales. To make things perfect, he led New South Wales' charge in McDonald's Cup Final as well winning the match award for his 73.

His next game was for Pakistan where he opened the bowling with Wasim Akram and took 3 for 27 with some seriously quick bowling.

It meant the end of the road for Azeem Hafeez and Tahir Naqqash. Azeem never played for Pakistan again after that season, his last match coming when he was just 21 while Tahir played a couple of ODIs against Sri Lanka.

Of the other three, Atiq disappeared for good, Rashid was only seen in action for PIA (usually on TV in the Wills Cup games) and only Sikander played for Pakistan again: In 1988, with Wasim Akram not fully fit and Saleem Jaffer still trying to overcome the horrors of the World Cup Semi-Final, Imran, making his comeback called out for Sikander. Sikander was in the probables but not in the final touring party. Imran struggled through the one-dayers but was back at his best by the time the tests started - he took 20 wickets in the first two matches before his injury returned. I think it was Wasim Akram or someone else who at one point said that his socks would be carrying blood stains after his bowling spells. Imran struggled through the last test which Pakistan lost (amid dubious umpiring) - a test that put so much stress on Viv Richards that he was crying after West Indies won and leveled the series.

It was not all over for Sikander - four years after his returned was campaigned by Munir Hussain during a Pakistani tour to New Zealand but was blocked by the emergence of Wasim Akram, the team landed to face the Kiwis once more. This time, Wasim Akram started off brilliantly but got injured and Imran immediately called for Sikander. He played one ODI - his last appearance for Pakistan - but was not impressive, his only wicket coming off a long-hop that somehow ended up in the hands of a boundary fielder.

All through this timeline, Atiq never figures. He was just not good enough.

 

[Saj]

Just a quick one..

Front row - Left to right
Tony Greig, Lawrence Rowe, Dennis Amiss, David Hookes, Imran Khan, Bernard Julien, Allan Knott
Second row
Wayne Daniel, Deryck Murray, Doug Walters, Len Pascoe, Asif Iqbal, Zaheer Abbas, Gordon Greenidge
Third Row
Collis King, Ian Davis, Rod Marsh, Wayne Prior, Majid Khan, Martin Kent
Fourth Row
Mushtaq Muhammad, Jim Allen, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards (in beard), Trevor Chappell,
Fifth Row
Andy Roberts, Rick McCosker, Bob Woolmer, Gary Gilmour, Ross Edwards, Max Walker, Dennis Lillee
Sixth Row
Kerry O'Keefe, Richie Robinson, Ian Chappell, Garth McKenzie, Eddie Barlow, Derek Underwood, Bruce Laird
Seventh Row
Mike Proctor, Clive Lloyd, Michael Holding, Ray Bright, Ashley Mallett, John Snow
Last Row,
David Holford, Joel Garner, Albert Padmore, Ian Redpath, Mick Malone, Roy Fredricks, Viv Richards

Very impressive indeed

 

[W63L35]

Any guesses..... who this player is?


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[W63L35]

Why/where did Inzi get this trophy?

...and who are the two WI players with Butt and Misbah? Even I don't know the one on the front?


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[LethalSami]

its Sarwan on the back...

dunno the front one..

 

[W63L35]

Who is the player with YK... which match is this...what is the player acknowledging?

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[W63L35]

its Sarwan on the back...

dunno the front one..

Yes ....that was easy!

The other one ... I think, now I know..who it is.

 

[LethalSami]

Jamshed............ODI vs India, ACK a fifty

 

[W63L35]

Jamshed............ODI vs India, ACK a fifty

Which match?

 

[LethalSami]

abb itnay bhi na free ho jao

 

[W63L35]

abb itnay bhi na free ho jao

I thought, we were already "this much" free with each other!

Here is the match.... (his debut match);

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/325800.html

 

[ElRaja]

Why/where did Inzi get this trophy?

...and who are the two WI players with Butt and Misbah? Even I don't know the one on the front?


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is that sarwan and ridley jacobs?

 

[W63L35]

is that sarwan and ridley jacobs?

No .. I don't think so.

 

[shakil]

No .. I don't think so.

It is Ricardo Powell actually

Source:

 

[shakil]

Why/where did Inzi get this trophy?

Inzamam-ul-Haq top scored for Hyderabad Heroes, Chennai Superstars v Hyderabad Heroes, 11th match, Indian Cricket League, Panchkula, December 9, 2007

 

[shakil]

Any guesses..... who this player is?

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Shoaib Khan against Zimbabwe in his debut T20 match

 

[masterblaster]

Why/where did Inzi get this trophy?

...and who are the two WI players with Butt and Misbah? Even I don't know the one on the front?


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It's Daren Powell

 

[shakil]

It's Daren Powell

Yeah, it is Darren Powell

 

[umarf76]

just a quick one..

Front row - left to right
tony greig, lawrence rowe, dennis amiss, david hookes, imran khan, bernard julien, allan knott
second row
wayne daniel, deryck murray, doug walters, len pascoe, asif iqbal, zaheer abbas, gordon greenidge
third row
collis king, ian davis, rod marsh, wayne prior, majid khan, martin kent
fourth row
mushtaq muhammad, jim allen, greg chappell, barry richards (in beard), trevor chappell,
fifth row
andy roberts, rick mccosker, bob woolmer, gary gilmour, ross edwards, max walker, dennis lillee
sixth row
kerry o'keefe, richie robinson, ian chappell, garth mckenzie, eddie barlow, derek underwood, bruce laird
seventh row
mike proctor, clive lloyd, michael holding, ray bright, ashley mallett, john snow
last row,
david holford, joel garner, albert padmore, ian redpath, mick malone, roy fredricks, viv richards

very impressive!! How do you remember them all?
How old are you?

 

[kamranwasti]

very impressive!! How do you remember them all?
How old are you?

34 and well I just follow cricket a bit

 

[W63L35]

Shoaib Khan against Zimbabwe in his debut T20 match

Yes..

Inzamam-ul-Haq top scored for Hyderabad Heroes, Chennai Superstars v Hyderabad Heroes, 11th match, Indian Cricket League, Panchkula, December 9, 2007

I think, you are right... I only knew that it was an ICL match.

Yeah, it is Darren Powell

I think.... it is Jerome Taylor.

 

[Saurav]

Its Daren Powell

 

[shakil]

I think.... it is Jerome Taylor.

Okay, I cheated :

http://www.urdupoint.com/sports/sportsGallery-0-56-555-1403.html

According to the caption, it is Powell

 

[W63L35]

Okay, I cheated :

http://www.urdupoint.com/sports/sportsGallery-0-56-555-1403.html

According to the caption, it is Powell

There is no rule ... that says, you can't search the web!

 

[A-1]

Excellent thread this.

Rare and brilliant pics. KIU W63L35

 

[W63L35]

Excellent thread this.

Rare and brilliant pics. KIU W63L35

Thanks! But what does KIU mean? Kampala International University?

I can't keep up with hard to understand and uncommon abbreviations!

 

[A-1]

Thanks! But what does KIU mean? Kampala International University?

I can't keep up with hard to understand and uncommon abbreviations!

Teri khair

KIU yaar = Keep it up

 

[W63L35]

teri khair

kiu yaar = keep it up

i can't keep up with hard to understand and uncommon abbreviations!

 

[A-1]

^^lol I have officially lost my mind

 

[akheR]

Guess who :shakil

 

[kamranwasti]

Guess who :shakil

Aamer Nazir

 

[akheR]

Aamer Nazir

Looks like the mystery didn't last long.

What can you say about him ? Heard contradictory views, some saying that he was 'genuinely' talented and others that he came through sifarish (from an upper-class Lahore family which had connections, they say.)

 

[shakil]

A vicious in-cutter by Aamer Nazir gets through Richie Richardson's defense
Carl Hooper offers no stroke to an Aamer Nazir in-cutter and is given out LBW
Yet another in-cutter by Aamer Nazir traps Gus Logie, but the umpire refuses to budge

 

[kamranwasti]

Looks like the mystery didn't last long.

What can you say about him ? Heard contradictory views, some saying that he was 'genuinely' talented and others that he came through sifarish (from an upper-class Lahore family which had connections, they say.)

He was chosen by Wasim Akram for the 1993 West Indies tour on the basis of some decent shows for I think Income Tax or Pakistan Customs team in some non-first-class competition.

Aamer, as a bowler, was fast-medium. The reason for that was he simply did not use his left arm/shoulder at all when delivering the ball. His stock deliver was the late inswinger which, with the new ball, could swing really big. He had not payed a single first-class match when selected for the Pakistani team.

Pakistanis had come to the West Indies on the back of losing seven successessive ODIs (3 under Javed Miandad in Australia and 4 under Wasim Akram in South Africa). In the first two games, they were completely Larafied - he hit a 100 in one and a big 50 in the second. Wasim blooded Aamer Nazir in this second ODI. Those were Eid days and I would be staying up late to watch until Pakistan were in the game. So in this game, when Pakistanis scored 200 or something, I switched off and only came to know the next day that Aamer Nazir, in his debut game, had taken 3 for 43 and was denied a hat-trick after he hit Gul Logie plumb in front of the stumps as Shakil has pointed out. He made a decent debut in the second test that Pakistanis lost but that was the close of the season.

Pakistan's 1993 season started with a series in Sharjah. First Aqib Javed and then an already unfit Waqar Younis dropped out after Pakistan's first match defeat and then Wasim Akram, who had been bowling brilliantly, was not available for the final. As a result, Waqar was played despite carrying an injury and Aamer Nazir was flown in from Pakistan on the eve of the match. The final was notable for Basit Ali's crazy assault on Ambrose, Walsh and Co. before Brian Lara hammered Waqar and Aamer Nazir and the rest into submission.

Aamer did not play in any of the tests in the Zimbabwe series that followed but made an appearance in the ODIs and I think he got Alistair Campbell or Dave Houghton bowled with a good ball which prompted Chishty Mujahid to exclaim 'Completely castled!'.

He then made a token appearance in the New Zealand series before which Wasim Akram had been replaced by Salim Malik and did not impress much. With Aqib Javed injured, Ata-ur-Rahman was pencilled in as the third seam bowler and although seemingly unimpressively, was giving Aqib-like returns in tests. Aamer should have been the fourth seamer but Pakistani management, around this time, was fascinated by two bowlers: One was Ashfaq Ahmad, a wiry young bowler who bowled steady, unthreatening medium pace. The other was Irfan Bhatti, a Rawalpindi veteran in his 30s who had put up a good show in the Wills Cup. So Aamer, instead of being the prime backup bowler was unnecessarily dragged into a pointless competition with two bowlers who were never going to make it - a clear consequence of the Pakistani mindset to 'give chance to everyone'.

That New Zealand test, as I wrote above, got him ordinary returns and the impression it generated was enough to keep him out of the Austral-Asia Cup despite Waqar's absence.

He did not play again till Pakistanis found themselves playing sole test in South Africa in early 1995 where he was famously travelling when the match began and Pakistanis fielded first. He was to replace the injured Waqar Younis and somehow managed to do well given his circumstances, which included two wickets in successive deliveries a few hours after he reached the ground.

Aamer was persisted with on the tour to Zimbabwe which immediately followed the South African tour and after Pakistan's shock innings defeat in the first test, played in the last two matches that Pakistan won. After providing useful support in the first three innings, he wreck Zimbabwe's innings with a killer opening burst to become the first Pakistani bowler apart from Wasim and Waqar in six years to take five wickets in an innings. In between, the best figures had been Imran Khan's 4 for 45 versus India at Faisalabad. Despite the major shake-up in the Pakistani line-up after that tour he was persisted with for the Asia Cup in Sharjah and made immediate impact in his first game against Bangladesh taking two wickets in his very first over. However, in the game game, as Sri Lanka sought shock Pakistan out in a run-rate clash, Aamer was taken on by Jayasuria and hammered for 47 runs in 5 overs to end his ODI career at the age of 24.

Later that season, he was called up to play for Pakistan at Sialkot in the series deciding test against Sri Lanka where Pakistan, famously, went for 4 fast bowlers on a wicket they were ultimately forced to bat last and were outdone by a 22-year-old Chaminda Vaas. Aamer bowled decently, taking 3 wickets in the game including a very good first innings dismissal through a lifter which hit the seam and reared up just around the off-stump to catch the edge. That was it.

Ignored for the 1995 Falls' ODI triangular in Sharjah involving West Indies and Sri Lanka (which saw Sri Lanka's 'official' rise in a famous 4-run loss), Aamer was recalled for the Australian tour as Wasim Akram became Pakistan's captain again. However, he was helpless in the opportunities that came his way and his international career was over before he turned 25.

He kept putting up decent shows in domestic cricket but was never even on the fringes of selection again. He was not express and he would never have been another Wasim Akram or a Waqar Younis but wit 20 wickets at under 30 in 6 tests, he could have been a genuine option for the long-term especially when one considers that Pakistani selectors were trying people like Zafar Iqbal, Naeem Ashraf and the likes. Subconsciously, Pakistan's vision was changing anyway - they would now have nothing less than tearaways and anyone of lesser pace would have to be an all-rounder. Aamer Nazir simply did not fit that paradigm.

 

[akheR]

kamranwasti, thanks, treasure of informations... I think you might get more POTWs in the near future.

So that's obvious that the boy was talented and nothing to do with 'upper class Lahore family' I read.

A vicious in-cutter by Aamer Nazir gets through Richie Richardson's defense
Carl Hooper offers no stroke to an Aamer Nazir in-cutter and is given out LBW
Yet another in-cutter by Aamer Nazir traps Gus Logie, but the umpire refuses to budge

He should have got his hat-trick, and in his first ODI!

Watch from 1:33 onwards (good comeback delivery after being hit for four)

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[W63L35]

^^
Logies was out but Hooper was not..... hit Hooper outside the line.

 

[kamranwasti]

^^
Logies was out but Hooper was not..... hit Hooper outside the line.

A batsman can be dismissed leg before wicket if hit outside the line of the off-stump if he is not offering a shot.

 

[kamz]

A batsman can be dismissed leg before wicket if hit outside the line of the off-stump if he is not offering a shot.

class bowler, as my humnaam said very talented, but career cut short

What do you say about Qasim Umar bro, in my opinion the first ever opener to bring out the idea of attacking in the first 10 overs

Do you remember the american cup in the 80s?

 

[kamz]

qasim umar