Younis paints bleak picture of Pakistan

This time around we are talking about the cooler younis



ADELAIDE: Pakistan Test batsman Younus Khan says cricket in his homeland will wither away through a lack of top-line competition.


The 30-year-old right-hander is playing a part-season for South Australia in Australian domestic cricket and last week scored a match-saving 71 not out in South Australia's second innings against New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield game here.

Australia have not toured Pakistan over security fears since 1998.

They forced Pakistan to relocate a series to the neutral grounds of Sri Lanka and Sharjah in 2002 after the Australian government advised them against touring in the wake of the September 11 attacks the year before.

Australia again postponed their full tour of Pakistan in March this year over security fears and only agreed to reschedule the tour into two visits for a one-day series in 2009 and for Tests in 2010.

And Australian players were at the forefront of boycotting the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September, which has now been postponed until October next year.

Younus warned cricket in Pakistan will fall away if it remained starved of visiting top-line opponents.

'At the moment we are in very bad shape,' Younus told The Australian newspaper Saturday.

'In Pakistan there are a lot of very good people. But because of some mad people, perhaps five percent of the population, because of them we are suffering at the moment.

'The Pakistani people are not like that. They love Australian cricket. They love to watch Brett Lee bowling, or Shaun Tait, or Ricky Ponting, they say 'oh what a fantastic player Ricky Ponting is.'

'If they're not touring, we will be suffering. It will be very bad for us.'

Less than two weeks after arriving from Pakistan, Younus has some claim to being the most popular member of the South Australian team, the newspaper said.

Team physio Jon Porter said of Younus: 'Mate, he's brilliant. I've never met a happier bloke. Even when (New South Wales) made 550 he didn't stop smiling.'

Younus has scored 4,816 runs in 58 Tests at an average of 49.14, with 15 centuries, and has played in 175 one-day internationals for Pakistan since 2000.

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Spot on! My favorite Pakistani cricketer since Imran.

He would make for a solid captain but as some one recently said there is TOO much b.s in PAK cricket for an honest and simple individual like him to be the captain.

He's currently struggling to make runs here in oz.

PlanetPakistan wrote:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/sport/cricket/younus-warns-tour-isolation-will-harm-pakistan-ts

Spot on! My favorite Pakistani cricketer since Imran.

He would make for a solid captain but as some one recently said there is TOO much b.s in PAK cricket for an honest and simple individual like him to be the captain.

Your loss is our gain as Waqar wil be working with our Development Squad in India. But don't you wonder why he has not put himself in the frame to be your national coach?

Red wrote:He's currently struggling to make runs here in oz.

article says he just scored a match saving 70+

Basil wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/sport/cricket/younus-warns-tour-isolation-will-harm-pakistan-ts

Spot on! My favorite Pakistani cricketer since Imran.

He would make for a solid captain but as some one recently said there is TOO much b.s in PAK cricket for an honest and simple individual like him to be the captain.

Your loss is our gain as Waqar wil be working with our Development Squad in India. But don't you wonder why he has not put himself in the frame to be your national coach?

oh...i think you have your younises mixed up.

As for Waqar he was PAK's bowling coach but then DNA(ex chairman) but was humiliated and fired due to the usual PAK cricket bs

PlanetPakistan wrote:

Basil wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/sport/cricket/younus-warns-tour-isolation-will-harm-pakistan-ts

Spot on! My favorite Pakistani cricketer since Imran.

He would make for a solid captain but as some one recently said there is TOO much b.s in PAK cricket for an honest and simple individual like him to be the captain.

Your loss is our gain as Waqar wil be working with our Development Squad in India. But don't you wonder why he has not put himself in the frame to be your national coach?

oh...i think you have your younises mixed up.

As for Waqar he was PAK's bowling coach but then DNA(ex chairman) but was humiliated and fired due to the usual PAK cricket bs

Whoops yes! Anyway, what do you think of the idea of Pakistan playing "home" tests at Headingley?

Basil wrote:

Whoops yes! Anyway, what do you think of the idea of Pakistan playing "home" tests at Headingley?

Not a bad idea. At least the pitches will be slightly better there because now the PAK bowling attack needs some help as there has been a transformation from the 2 Ws to 2 Idiotic As who barely ever play.

plus we can expect more than 8 people to show up for the games.

PlanetPakistan wrote:

Basil wrote:

Whoops yes! Anyway, what do you think of the idea of Pakistan playing "home" tests at Headingley?

Not a bad idea. At least the pitches will be slightly better there because now the PAK bowling attack needs some help as there has been a transformation from the 2 Ws to 2 Idiotic As who barely ever play.

plus we can expect more than 8 people to show up for the games.

You'd probably fill the ground on all five days.

Basil wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:

Basil wrote:

Whoops yes! Anyway, what do you think of the idea of Pakistan playing "home" tests at Headingley?

Not a bad idea. At least the pitches will be slightly better there because now the PAK bowling attack needs some help as there has been a transformation from the 2 Ws to 2 Idiotic As who barely ever play.

plus we can expect more than 8 people to show up for the games.

You'd probably fill the ground on all five days.

excellent!

OT will be nice too. Pace, bounce and S AKhtar will be a good sight.