Pakistan batsman Umar Amin: “So far, there’s no such plan. If I had such a plan, I would have made that decision two or three years ago. Then I wouldn’t have played so much domestic and other formats of cricket”
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Pakistan batsman Umar Amin has insisted he has no plans to move to the United States of America and continue playing cricket there.
Amin has been trying to get back into the national team since 2018, which was the last time he represented his country.
Despite being a consistently strong performer in domestic cricket, the 34-year-old is still waiting to get recalled.
The veteran batsman definitely took steps in the right direction in Pakistan A’s four-day game against Bangladesh A as he scored a sensational 177.
Amin reiterated his determination to keep trying to revive his Pakistan career and pointed out that if he had planned to go to the USA, he would have done so “two or three years ago”.
“So far, there’s no such plan. If I had such a plan, I would have made that decision two or three years ago. Then I wouldn’t have played so much domestic and other formats of cricket. I’ve been playing every national tournament since I was dropped from the team; I haven’t missed a single domestic tournament by the PCB,” he was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.
Amin was not part of Pakistan’s team for the 2024 T20 World Cup, where the men in green were eliminated in the group stage.
He also wasn’t selected for the ongoing two-match Test series against Bangladesh, where Pakistan trail 1-0 after losing the first Test by 10 wickets.
The second Test will start on August 30 in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan Squad for Bangladesh Test Series: Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Aamer Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Hurraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wicketkeeper), Shaheen Shah Afridi
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