Pakistan Cricket Board has announced young left-handed
batsman Umar Amin to lead Pakistan A team against touring South Africans at Sharjah.
Earlier it was speculated by many cricket pundits that Shoaib Malik may lead
Pakistan A team anticipating he can replace ageing Misbah-ul-Haq in near
future. However, Pakistan Cricket Board lulled these speculations by appointing
Umar Amin as the skipper of Pakistan A team.
Umar Amin was born on 16 October 1989 at Rawalpindi. He made
a patient 89 in five hours batting as opener in his debut First Class inning for
his native Rawalpindi against a strong Pakistan International Airlines team in
November 2007. It was followed by another half century in nearly three hours in
the second inning and instantly appeared on the national radar as a bright
future prospect for Pakistan.
He batted well in his second First Class season and scored
967 runs at 46.04 in 12 matches with the help of two centuries. It helped in
earning his Test cap against Australia at the neutral venue of Lord’s. He
played in four Test matches within a span of only 25 days but performed
miserably scoring only 99 runs at a meager average of 12.37 and was
subsequently dropped from national side.
Umar Amin made a strong comeback in 2012-13 First Class
season by scoring 1321 runs in 15 matches at an average of 45.55 with the help
of two centuries and eight fifties. He cracked his highest First Class score of
281 in the same season playing against Habib Bank for Port Qasim Authority in
Islamabad. A successful domestic season earned him a comeback in national
limited overs side and is now a regular part of Pakistan’s One Day International
and Twenty20 sides. Umar Amin has played in 9 ODIs and 4 Twenty20
Internationals for Pakistan so far.
Umar Amin has been among the most-talked batting prospect
for Pakistan along with Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq. His strength is
good technique and temperament both as an opening as well as upper middle order
batsman. Failure of other Pakistani opening batsman give our selectors an
option to include Umar Amin as an opening batsman. Is he being groomed as a
future captain of Pakistan? It seems that Pakistan Cricket Board has made up
its mind to do so despite though he has not led any side in domestic First
Class cricket. His sober and intellectual cricketing mind is Umar Amin’s stong
point and scarcity of regular players in the national team enhances his chance
of being a future captain of Pakistan cricket team
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