Pakistan’s team management has finally decided that Umar Akmal would be used as wicketkeeper instead of his elder brother Kamran in the remaining group matches of the World Cup 2011 as Kamran missed three chances in Tuesday’s big loss to New Zealand.
Akmal has been criticizing in Pakistan for his poor performance in such a big tournament. Not only in the match against New Zealand Akmal also missed two stumps against Sri Lanka.
“It (keeping with Umar) is very much an option and we might try it in the next game,” cricinfo quoted captain Shahid Afridi as saying.
Afridi said Kamran was also behind the wickets for three T20s in New Zealand soon after.
“If you see him train, he puts in a lot of hard work. I don’t know why but luck has deserted him,” Afridi said. “He is also upset about his performance against New Zealand and he realizes it too.”
Meanwhile, the coach Waqar Younis said “After the World Cup maybe we can think about it, but we are in the middle of the tournament and I don’t think we can make such a change right now.”
Pakistan took a day off from training on Wednesday but the team management said it would sit down and go through the loss and plan for the next game, against Zimbabwe on March 14.
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