Sunday, October 28, 2007

Abdul Razaq returns

Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has announced that he is taking back his decision of retirement from the International Cricket and is returning back to the International arena. He thought that upon his decision, Dr. Nasim Ashraf, the chairman of PCB would go delirious with joy, and Salahuddin Sallu, the chief selector would perform a “Bhangra” and the rest of team will throw a party, while nation will celebrate an Eid-like day.

Amazingly enough that didn’t exactly happen. Dr. Nasim Ashraf expresses his “utter” amazement at Razzaq’s decision and said that he thought perhaps Razzaq was somewhere out there fitting the CNG kits in the cars, and Salahuddin Sallu said indifferently that Razzaq cannot join the national team straight away and he would have to show his performance in the domestic cricket.

Abdul Razzaq has said that he made a mistake in haste, when he took retirement from the cricket after getting dropped from the Twenty20 squad, and now after much ponder and discussion with his coach and club, he realized his blunder and now want to play again for Pakistan. Now Abdul Razzaq will represent Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, and if he succeeds in showing his form and fitness in the first class matches, then he might get a chance in the team.

Abdul Razzaq has always been a dumb thingie. He never was able to show any consistency in his performance. He was neither a bowler nor a batsman, rather a bizarre mixture of both. He only performed in some of the ODIs, where he used to slog in the final five or so overs. But now for quite sometime he had become a useless component of team. Then, he demanded that he should be made captain of the national team, after the ignominious departure of Inzi. Upon this dumb and ridiculous demand, everybody laughed and board just ignored him. He then went to Indian Cricket Leauge (ICL), and still his status is unclear in ICL.

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