Comments on: Keeping Kamran

By: Vim

Vim — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:33:52 +0000

It’s concentration. I’m sure sometimes he is thinking about what he watched on telly last night or his kids or something far unrelated to cricket even as the ball is being bowled.

That miss off Asif, sure he might not have got it, but he literally stood there like he wasn’t the keeper.

It’s so weird watching him have these games of death where he may as well have saucepan lids on his hands and medicine balls around his feet.

By: knowledge_eater

knowledge_eater — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:19:31 +0000

ohhh man Keeping is not easy at all, I am good slip catcher and they decided to give me gloves. I failed many times. So, gave up on that. Must need good keeper in Test at least. Because one drop can cost you millions of runs. I like Akmal, I am sure he has forced himself to be a keeper to get stable into side. I don’t like forced keeper unless you are Dravid. Pakistan must come up with better keeper and retain Kamran as a batsman. Keepers are allrounder of team. Their importance as a batsman was started from Gilly, and that good mutation spread to all the countries. Well, Alec Stewart was all right keeper/batsman though. This guy looks like he is afraid that Is he going to catch that or not, in process your mind tell you to be extra cautious and your hand even become more stiff, eventually you drop even more catches. Its terrible feeling to drop a catch.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:43:27 +0000

Even Tait can do better wk then him. Whos with me?

By: Farrukh

Farrukh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:58:41 +0000

Kamran….. a well know wicket keeper not becoz of his good keeping but coz of his attitude behind the stump…. if he miss one chance in any match … make sure he will miss atleast 4-5 more chance … Dear believe it he is only regular paki player in the whole squade of 14 players even wid did performance…..

By: MartDawg

MartDawg — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:11:54 +0000

I like him, He is funny. But it’s part of the general cricket thinking of picking batsmen who own gloves rather than keepers. Not that anyone else picks one that shit.

Top marks for this line:
If you showed this to Bert Oldfield, George Duckworth and Tiger Smith they’d die again.

By: Valerio

Valerio — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:36:28 +0000

Jrod,

I cannot forgive Kamran Akmal for his performance in the Sydney Test Match. As all cricket fans will recall he missed 4 catches and a run out opportunity. The final catch he missed off Peter Siddle on the 4th morning defied belief. Many people including myself questioned the integrity of his performance after that display. As far as I could ascertain he was not carrying an injury or suffering illness.
Once again I am disgusted by his incompetence. These displays for me are bringing Test cricket into disrepute. It is bad enough for us fans to suffer the disgraceful batting pitches that are rolled out, but too add to that wicket-keepers who are not even first-class standard is too hard to cop. I hope this is not another performance where we will be left questioning his integrity and therefore the integrity of cricket.

By: Subash Jayaraman

Subash Jayaraman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:18:59 +0000

Parthiv Patel was terrible when he had to keep to the spinners. He did alright to the (medium) pacers. Funny thing is: He had the hardest time against Kumble who does not turn the ball much at all.. I don’t know what to make of that..

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:02:04 +0000

Even worse than Party Patel?