Ramiz Raja: “Inzamam didn’t do the World Cup selection right because there was a lot of confusion”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja believes that outgoing chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq shouldn’t have made it so confusing when picking the World Cup team.
Ramiz Raja doesn’t think Inzamam-ul-Haq showed any favouritism towards Imam-ul-Haq
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has praised outgoing chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq for including a number of talented youngsters in the national team, including opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq.
Ramiz Raja: “If Pakistan was playing against India in the semis, the world would have stopped to see the match and the eyeballs would [have been] glued to see the encounter”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja was not impressed with New Zealand’s performance in their World Cup semi-finals clash against India, and believes that Pakistan would have made the match more entertaining.
Ramiz Raja: “Shaheen Shah Afridi only represented Pakistan in just five matches out of nine, the same goes with Haris Sohail, who was benched for no good reason”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja believes that the two biggest mistakes the national team made at the World Cup was not letting left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi and batsman Haris Sohail play more games.
Ramiz Raja: “We need to find batsmen and all-rounders, and this is how we [will] be able to make a team for the future”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has revealed that the national team will be on the lookout for talented batsmen and all-rounders after the World Cup.
Ramiz Raja: “Pakistan need to understand that if they want to win the World Cup, they need to throw away the unpredictability tag”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has admitted that in order for the national team to win the World Cup, they need to get rid of their unpredictability tag.
Ramiz Raja: “Pakistan should take their destiny in their own hands as their progress cannot depend on the wins and losses of other sides”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has noted that the national team “must take their destiny in their own hands” when they face Bangladesh at Lord’s on Friday.
Ramiz Raja: “It’s like 1992 in the sense we’re finding new heroes too. In that tournament, it was Wasim Akram; now it’s the likes of Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja believes that batsman Babar Azam and left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi have become World Cup heroes.
Ramiz Raja: “This team has finally stood up; and I am getting the feeling that it [will] be very difficult for any side to beat Pakistan now”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has revealed that it will be “very difficult” for Afghanistan and Bangladesh to beat the national team.
Ramiz Raja: “Pakistan [will] need to tweak their plans a bit against New Zealand”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has admitted that the national team will need to “tweak their plans a bit” for their World Cup clash against New Zealand at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
