Friday, February 19, 2010

Akhtar dreams of captaining Pakistan

Shoaib has not yet given up hope of reviving his dormant international career and still believes that his return to domestic cricket for Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) might lead to a surprise international call-up. Shoaib’s last appearance for Pakistan was last year, a wicketless outing in a Twenty20 international in Dubai against Australia. Since then fitness issues, the rise of Mohammad Aamer and the return of Mohammad Asif have eased him further out of national reckoning. He has not played a Test for Pakistan since December 2007. But Shoaib is leading KRL in the ongoing National One-day Cricket Tournament in the absence of Mohammad Wasim.Shoaib has turned out in two games and has bowled just over 13 overs so far, for a solitary wicket.

“Captaining your country is the dream of every cricketer and I am no different,” Akhtar said. “As a young boy when I first started playing cricket it was my dream to captain my country. My aim and goal is to win back my place in the team and I strongly believe that I will be back. You know things change very quickly in Pakistan cricket and I’m confident that my chance will come again. I can’t say whether it will be the Twenty20 World Cup or later in the summer in England, but I believe my chance will come.” Pakistan are due to play its ‘home’ series against Australia in England before taking on England in the four-Test series this summer. The injury-prone Akhtar has played just 46 Test matches in a 12-year career, taking 178 wickets. In 144 ODIs he has 223 wickets.


Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\19\story_19-2-2010_pg2_3

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