The whole world leaves you alone if you are in trouble even your own shadow, especially when someone himself invites those troubles. Pakistan cricket is going through miserable times and even a legend that made his name by playing for Pakistan doesn’t want to discuss his own country’s team. He instead preferred to talk about the promising Indian team which is just getting better and better with every passing day.
Wasim Akram praised the decision of Indian selectors of inducting youngsters into the squad, as the world cup gets closer and who knows they might find a star that can help Indian team to get even stronger.
This induction is a step of rotation policy which was first started by Australian team to rest the key players before big events and throwing emerging players in the team to get a feel of international cricket.
Wasim Akram said, Indian cricket is moving on the right path as it prepares for next year’s World Cup which will be hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh jointly. Meanwhile he added that resting top five players for the One day International (ODI) series will help them to test the metal of players who have been inline fighting for a place to get in the team.
Indian selectors decided to leave out opening duo of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir alongside batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan. Wasim feels that it is quite a brave call to leave out your best players in a series against one of the top sides of the world who will be itching to take the revenge of Test series white wash.
But he admitted that the decision will be helpful for Indian future as they look to build a best possible side who can dominate for years to come just like West Indies did in 80’s and Australia did it all through last decade.
Wasim added that the recent resounding victory of India against the kangaroos at home shows that they are rightly at the number one spot in Test ranking and their selectors should be applauded for the work they have been doing it for the betterment of cricket in India.
The former Pakistan captain who has been spending most of his time in India post-retirement believes that every team of the world is thinking about the upcoming World Cup and several changes are taking place in all the teams. But Wasim felt aggrieved by the acrimonious state of Pakistan cricket. He said that if the internal problems among the players and PCB are not solved quickly then things can get quite worse.
Pakistan Hockey team had already finished in twelfth position at in their respective World Cup and the same could happen to Pakistan cricket team as well if they do not fix their infightings and egos.
Wasim affirmed faith in the players who will be replacing the seniors in the One-day and by no means are they lesser than the out going players.
One could imagine himself that if a cricket team has players like Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Yuvraj Singh as replacements than how good the future of that nation would be. India will surely go on to rule the cricket for years ahead.
