Shabash Shabash Kakku Bhai Shabah Shabash

Kamran Akamal is one peculiar creature. He fluffs the nicks and edges that are off the batsman’s bat. Almost everything that comes his way. And then he makes a pig face or a poker face as if nothing has happened. Its a mystery that how far he has come along carrying this inadequacy of capturing anything that comes his way. Thats the basic skill every keeper must possess. He is dropped, he is back. He is in a cloud, he is cleared.

Pakistan has changed captains like Rakhi Sawant’s clothes or Veena Malik’s statements, but Kamran Akamal is a permanent fixture in the team. Right from Inzamam to Younis to Yosuf to Misbah to Butt S to Afridi, this lad has remained in the team. Razzaq came in, gone and again came in. MoYo ICL’ed, retired, came back, dropped and forgotten. Yet Kakku is in the team.

Asif, Shoaib, Amir spearheaded the bowling attacks and they were / are gone. Zulfi Haider came and fled. Kakku is still around. Afridi says this lad does the hard work in nets but in the real games his luck runs out. For 4 years in row ? Every time?  Everything changes in Pakistan cricket except Ijaz Butt and Kamran Akamal.  May be this 2 have had some secret pact.

Waqar is not yet ready to kick him out from the team. But the fans have given up. There was a very interesting video on this lad on You tube yesterday with the song ‘Teri G***d me danda re” which was good enough to crack anybody up.  The community in neigbhour country that follows cricket wants this man out. Who knows Kamran might stay in Lanka and seek a political asylum citing fear to his life. Or he might flee to Libya or Timbaktu.

He seems to be one creepy creature who has got weird smile, weird voice and you immediately feel urge to put on the tape on his mouth or mute the volume of your laptop / TV to avoid his torturous “Shahid Bhai Shahid Bhai”.

The next games Pakistan play would decide the future of this “Kaali Bakri” (as refered on cricinfo page 2) in the world cup. Yet as everyone believes he might cling on his place and even if he is dropped against Zim, he might return against Australia or in knock out stages.