South Africa tour of Pakistan

[andrew_nixon]

The tour is back on and will feature 2 Tests and 3 ODIs.

The new schedule hasn't been announced yet, but here is the South African squad.

Graeme Smith (captain)
Mark Boucher (wk)
Paul Adams
Alan Dawson
Boeta Dippenaar
Herschelle Gibbs
Andrew Hall
Jacques Kallis
Gary Kirsten
Charl Langeveldt
Neil McKenzie
Andre Nel
Makhaya Ntini
Robin Peterson
Shaun Pollock
Jacques Rudolph

 

[imported_fastbreaker]

If Pakistan beat South Africa, PAK will be considered a world class team. By "world Class", I mean one of the top teams.

 

[temp]

There will be 5 ODIs and 2 TESTs.

Here's the schedule

September 29 - Arrival in Lahore
October 1 - Practice one-day game in Lahore
October 3 - First one-day international in Lahore
October 5 - Second one-day international in Lahore
October 7 - Third one-day international in Faisalabad
October 10 - Fourth one-day international in Rawalpindi
October 12 - Fifth one-day international in Rawalpindi
October 17-21 - First Test in Lahore
October 24-28 - Second Test in Faisalabad.

I hope Pakistan at least win 1 TEST and 2 ODIs. :

 

[Neo!]

GO PAKISTAN GO

 

[imported_zulaid]

Yep....Yeah.... this should be pakistans strongest opponents for the new squad....hope they will do well....and would like to see mushtaq ahmed in the test squad as well...he has improved a lot....but he will at first play Asia Vs rest of the world on the 4 and 5th oct....then the selectors will see if he is good enough....but I think mushie will be included in the test side...

 

[andrew_nixon]

Rashid Latif has resigned as Pakistan captain!

 

[Simon_pope]

:o That's terrible news for them with the South African tour so close and such crisis encircling Pakistani cricket.

 

[imported_akeel]

very sad news

and i nice step by south african cricket board :tease:

but i am in karachi and bad news for me

good for cricket fans in pakistan and 1 more thing that they r gonna play 5 odi`s .lots of excitement. ;D:

hope pakistan perform well. :

 

[imported_Rollo]

Yeah. I was listening to BBC asian network while having some tea and when I heard this, I nearly choked!

:

Inzaman-ul-Haq is going to take over captaincy.

 

[Neo!]

I dont understand whats wrong w/ PCB? they seems to change captain so often

 

[temp]

Well I was thinking that Inzimam would remain as a captain. Rashid Latif did well as he announces his retirement from captaincy before PCB do any thing to him.

 

[imported_fastbreaker]

I think Pakistan will win one or two ODI's. The Pakistani team is quite good in ODI's. As for tests, I just hope they are competetive and try their best. The results of the tests wont matter much to me..

 

[Neo!]

Originally posted by sohaibaslam@Sep 25 2003, 12:33 AM
Well I was thinking that Inzimam would remain as a captain. Rashid Latif did well as he announces his retirement from captaincy before PCB do any thing to him.

yeah I agree but rashid latif just became a captain and retired already watch now inzi will retire soon.. its become a habit for PCB to change captain in couple of month time period

 

[temp]

inzi will retire soon.. its become a habit for PCB to change captain in couple of month time period

Yes, they have habbit. But Inzi says a couple of months ago that will play for Pak for next 5 years.

 

[temp]

Here's the Pakistan Squad

Squad (for the five-match one-day series against South Africa):
Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain), Younis Khan, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Malik, Rashid Latif (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Shabbir Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal and Salman Butt.
Reserves: Asim Kamal, Imran Farhat, Faisal Athar, Danish Kaneria, Kamran Akmal and Abdul Rauf.

Shoaib Mohammad XI (for October 1 practice match against South Africa):
Faisal Athar, Imran Farhat, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Naved Latif, Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Kamran Akmal, Sajid Shah, Najaf Shah, Wahab Riaz, Tariq Mahmood, Bilal Asad and Sohail Ahmed.

Good to see Saqi and Mushi is back and Shoaib and Sami.

I think Saqlain and Mushtaq will not play in the same match together.