Now that the Pakistan domestic season of 2005 is over it's time for our WAT Pakistan selectors to put their reputations on the line and select the most deserving players who have performed well in 2005/06 and who fit the WAT criteria.

Criteria:
1. Players must be under 30 years of age when the team is selected.
2. They must not have played more than 5 Test matches.
3. The players must have potential to play Test cricket. Some players are only suited to one-day cricket. If you feel a player can develop into a Test cricketer then select him as a candidate.
4. To avoid anomolies the player should have competed in at least 8 first-class matches in the current domestic season ( the selectors may adjust this figure in exceptional or unusual circumstances ). The point of this rule is that a player has to be judged on performances in the 2005/06 season to warrant selection in the WAT team.

If you wish to be a WAT selector please start by nominating your list of contenders. The number in the list can be variable but the final Pakistan A team should be as balanced as possible. For example, all the bowlers shouldn't be spinners nor should the team contain more than one wicketkeeper.

Once all the selectors have nominated their contenders it's up to them to discuss the best candidates and formulate a final XI.

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Please make a note of any instances in which the above criteria (or any other) seems unreasonable: I raised this matter with regard to James Foster here and a suggested ammendment was made here.No set of rules will ever be perfect... and choping and changing in relation to very unusual cases strikes me as worse than living with rules that unfairly exclude unusual cases... but if clearcut improvements can be agreed upon then that has to be a good thing.

There has been interest in this recently, do any Pakistan fans want to select their team based on the criteria in admin's post?

Here are a few suggestions.


Bazid Khan
Saeed Bin Nasir
Zulqarnain Haider
Riaz Afridi
Ashar Zaidi
Rao Iftikhar Anjum
Misbah-ul-Haq exactly 5 test matches
Naved Latif
Shahid Yousuf
Mansoor Amjad
Adnan Akmal
Yasir Arafat
Mohammad Khalil

This is a couple of suggestions if you wanna help. help. Lets narrow it down

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Well My team Would be

Mohammad Hafeez
Ashar Zaidi
Naved latif (Cap)
Ali Naqvi
Adnan Akmal (WK)
Riaz Afridi
Mansoor Amjad
Rao Iftikhar Anjum
Faisal Athar
Zulaqarnain haider
Saeed Bin Nasir
Mohammad Khalil
Fazl-e-Akbar

Here is my 12 man squad For Now

Mohamad Hafeez

Asher Zadi

Misbah-ul-Haq CPT

Bazid Khan

Saeed Bin Nasir

Naved Latif Vice Cpt

Zulqarnain Haider WK

Mansoor Amjad

Riaz Afridi

Rao Ifthikar Anjum

Yasir Arafat


12thman
Mohammad Khalil

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I haven't decided on my team yet but I have checked the following players who featured in International matches or warm-up matches against International teams during 2005. Please check your teams and make sure they all qualify. Generally, they must be under 30 in 2005 and have played less than 6 Test matches. If they have played more than 5 Test matches they may qualify under the Exceptional Circumstance rule.

Non-qualifiers:

Abdul Razzaq; Asim Kamal; Arshad Khan; Danish Kaneria; Faisal Athar; Faisal Iqbal; Hasan Raza; Imran Farhat; Inzamam-ul-Haq; Kamran Akmal; Misbah-ul-Haq; Mohammad Sami; Mohammad Yousuf; Mushtaq Ahmed; Naved-ul-Hasan; Salman Butt; Shahid Afridi; Shabbir Ahmed; Shoaib Akhtar; Shoaib Malik; Taufeeq Umar; Yasir Hameed; Younis Khan

Qualifiers:

Amin-ur-Rehman; Ashar Zaidi; Bazid Khan; Iftikhar Anjum; Imran Tahir; Junaid Zia; Mansoor Amjad; Mohammad Asif; Mohammad Hafeez; Mohammad Irshad; Mohammad Khalil; Najaf Shah; Rizwan Ahmed; Shahid Nazir*; Shahid Yousuf; Shehzad Malik; Yasir Arafat; Zulqarnain Haider

*Shahid Nazir (8 Test matches - Last Test Mar 4-8, 1999 - may qualify under Exceptional Circumstance rule)

Following is my 12 man Pakistan A Squad

1. Humayun farhat WK BAT
2. Riaz Afridi Right arm Medium Fast
3. Muhammad Asif RH Fast Medium BWLR
4. Muhammad Khalil LH Medium BWLR
5. Najaf Shah LH Medium Fast BWLR
6. Shahzad Malik RH BAT
7. Junaid Zia ALLRNDR
8. Imran Tahir LGSPN
9. Tahir Mughal RH ALLRNDR
10. Bazid Khan RH BAT CPT
11. Naumanullah (30 yrs old) RHB
12. Farhan Adil RH BAT

This is the team i would play Batting order wise


1. Junaid Zia
2. Farhan Adil
3. Naumanullah
4. Bazid Khan (CPT)
5. Shahzad Malik
6. Riaz Afridi
7. Humayun Farhat (WKT)
8. Tahir Mughal
9. Imran Tahir
10. Mohammad Asif
11. Najaf Shah
12. Muhammad Khalil

My 12 men team is

Muhammad Hafeez.
Ashar Zaidi.
Bazid Khan.
Misbah ul Haq.
Naveed Latif. CAP.
Muhammad Asif.
Muhammad Khalil.
Adnan Akmal. WK.
Riaz Afridi.
Rao Iftikhar.
Yasir Arafat.
Junaid Zia.

Thats My Pakistan A Team.

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Mohamad Hafeez

Asher Zadi

Shehzad Malik

Bazid Khan

Saeed Bin Nasir

Naved Latif Vice Cpt

Zulqarnain Haider WK

Mansoor Amjad

Riaz Afridi

Rao Ifthikar Anjum

Yasir Arafat


12thman
Mohammad Khalil after reading the qulifirers here is my team.

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