Greatest Pakistan test XI

What would be the greatest Pakistan test XI:

this would be mine;


1.Saeed Anwar
2.Javed Miandad
3.Younus Khan
4.Mohammed Yousuf
5.Inzaam-UlHaq (c)
6.Imran Khan
7.Rashid Latif (wk)
8.Abdul Qadir
9.Wasim Akram
10.Waqar Younis
11.Shoaib Akhtar

Would open with Hanif Mohammed & have Imran as captain, otherwise looks pretty unstoppable. Not a bad pace attack.

i thought it was a very good pace attack lol....Very frigthening..pace, swing, bounce the lot.

How about Fazal Mahmood for Shoaib?
No room for Zaheer Abbas?

i about Mohammed, but i went for Shoaib he has a very good record in tests, also he is pure out and out pace, and compliments wasim and waqar very well....tried to get abbas in, but thought the other players i picked were better options..

Anwar
Hanif
Younis
Abbas
Yousuf
Inzy
Imran
Bari
Akram
Waqar
Qadir

Only four bowlers but I believe Zaheer bowled a few leggies?

cricketfan90 wrote:i about Mohammed, but i went for Shoaib he has a very good record in tests, also he is pure out and out pace, and compliments wasim and waqar very well....tried to get abbas in, but thought the other players i picked were better options..

Fair enough cf.
Do agree about picking Hanif, though. Possibly Pakistan's best opener, and the man to have if you want to save a test.

cricketfan90 wrote:What would be the greatest Pakistan test XI:

this would be mine;


1.Saeed Anwar
2.Javed Miandad
3.Younus Khan
4.Mohammed Yousuf
5.Inzaam-UlHaq (c)
6.Imran Khan
7.Rashid Latif (wk)
8.Abdul Qadir
9.Wasim Akram
10.Waqar Younis
11.Shoaib Akhtar

I like your team, but no place fr Abdur Razzak?

nope, especially as he plays for Bangladesh :P

Abdul Razzaq was a better odi player for pakistan IMO

imran khan is much better as well.

Thought his name was abdur. well i have always liked him, but looking at his stats not a great test player.

Imran Khan was a hell of a lot better, in both formats of the game.

cricketfan90

Nice team BUT did Maindad ever open?

i needed to accomdate him somewhere, and he opened a few times.

He played a few times with his son.

Did you know that?

yes i did know that

cricketfan90 wrote:yes i did know that

Do you know his name?

yes...is there a reason for all these questions?

cricketfan90 wrote:yes...is there a reason for all these questions?

There is. What's his name?

Cricketfan90

It was supposed to be a joke

Miandad (Me and Dad)

An old one but quite funny

well his son's name was junaid anyway.

cricketfan90 wrote:well his son's name was junaid anyway.

I never knew that.

Stella wrote:Cricketfan90

It was supposed to be a joke

Miandad (Me and Dad)

An old one but quite funny

just don't mention aluminium bats...

Some great Pakistani players there.

I'd go along with cf's team but with Hanif in for Saeed.

that was a tough one LB, however just went for anwar

It's a tough choice. Again a modern v a more classical player. Either one wouldn't look out of place in an all-time side.

What about the 1987 Pakistan side that toured England being the best ever test XI that Pakistan have fielded:-


1 Mudassar Nazir (Pakistan's 1980's version of Shane Watson)
2 Rameez Raja (Pakistan's answer to a Geoff Boycott type batsman)
3 Shoaib Mohammed
4 Asif Mujtaba (Pakistan's finest ever middle-order left-hander)
5 Mansoor Akhtar
6 Ijaz Ahmed
7 Mansoor Elahi (Pakistan's greatest all-rounder bowling medium pacers)
8 Salim Yousuf (Pakistan's best Wicketkeeper in the 1980's)
9 Saleem Jaffer (One of Pakistan's finest ever tall left arm seamers)
10 Zakir Khan
11 Mohsin Kamal (One of Pakistan's finest right arm seamers)
12th Tauseef Ahmed (Pakistan's best finger spinner in the 1980's)

Imaran , Miandad and Akram toured in 1987.

They are perhaps to good for your team

wasim has to be in any pakistan side, and probably most world sides.

Stella wrote:Imaran , Miandad and Akram toured in 1987.

They are perhaps to good for your team

My named Pakistan XI don't need these 3 big egos.

gboycottnut wrote:

Stella wrote:Imaran , Miandad and Akram toured in 1987.

They are perhaps to good for your team

My named Pakistan XI don't need these 3 big egos.

pfftttt wasim one of the best bowlers of all time, imran 3rd best all rounder of all time, miandad phennomenal batsman

he's taking the mickey cf, don't worry

my pakistani all-time XI would look like this BTW
Anwar
Mohammed
Younus Khan
Miandad
Ul Haq
Abbas
Imran Khan
Wasim Bari
Wasim Akram
Abdul Qadir
Waqar Younis

Just four bowlers, but reckon there's more than enough for 20 wickets there.

Like your team (assuming "Mohammed" means Hanif) , mfc

[quote="Mad for Chelsea"]he's taking the mickey cf, don't worry

he aint trust me, he's doing it on all 'the best of' threads.

Mad for Chelsea wrote:he's taking the mickey cf, don't worry

my pakistani all-time XI would look like this BTW
Anwar
Mohammed
Younus Khan
Miandad
Ul Haq
Abbas
Imran Khan
Wasim Bari
Wasim Akram
Abdul Qadir
Waqar Younis

Just four bowlers, but reckon there's more than enough for 20 wickets there.

Mad - as Alfie said first, like your team. Not sure if or where they would fit in but I'd add Hanif's brother Mushtaq Mohammed and Saqlain Mushtaq to the squad.

qadir IMO was much better than Saqlain.

cricketfan90 wrote:qadir IMO was much better than Saqlain.

Saqlain had a great run. Then he got "figured out" at international level (joys of video analysis), hence why his international career finished rather young.

Kiwi - injury also played a part with Saqlain.

Saqlain's greatness is probably best shown by helping hoodwink the England selectors into believing that his Surrey slow bowling partner Ian Salisbury was Test class. So many of Solly's wickets were due to the batsmen losing concentration when so relieved not to be facing Saqy.

guildfordbat wrote: Saqlain's greatness is probably best shown by helping hoodwink the England selectors into believing that his Surrey slow bowling partner Ian Salisbury was Test class. So many of Solly's wickets were due to the batsmen losing concentration when so relieved not to be facing Saqy.