Debutant Abdur Rehman impressive

I couldn't even find a picture of Abdur Rehman on CricInfo or the internet, but one thing is for sure, he was quite impressive on his debut against the Windies. He has a lot of control and more importantly, he bowled to his field. Inzamam understandably kept his long-off and long-on fielders near the ropes. It was the middle overs, and as a spinner was making his debut, there was no telling how nervous he might be or if the Windies would attack him. Safe bet in the end.

Turns out Rehman did well, and in hindsight Inzi should have probably brought in the men to mid on and mid off, to attack the batsmen more. Rehman gives the ball a quick whirl, has enough loop and is a very attacking left arm bowler. Very similar to Panesar in my opinion. He played with a packed off-side field and bowled on off and just outside off so that those fielders would come into play. The right handers found him troubling. Samuels, for one thing, kept misreading his turn and was eventually out to one that brought Younis Khan at first slip into action. The ball rose up on him while Samuels drove towards cover.

Dwayne Smith was LBW to a perfect arm-ball. Still too early to say, but I like what I see so far. It would be interesting to see if he can be continue to be wicket-taking and containing at the same time. 2-20 on debut is something he would probably be very happy with. I'd like to see him play the rest of the games as well. He may be a really good candidate for our World Cup plans. If all goes well, there is the chance that Pakistan may return to those successful days in the 90's when we played specialist spinners in ODI's (Saqlain and Mushtaq). I'd be up for that and Rehman could very well be our man.