Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistan – Player profile

Inzamam-ul-Haq is Pakistan’s captain and one of our longest-serving heroes. As fat batsmen go, Inzy’s probably the best. Disappointingly he’s not quite as large as he used to be, but he’s still solid enough to make running between the wickets seem a little bit arduous.

Fortunately for Inzy, he’s one of the few batsmen who’s good enough that he can avoid running between the wickets wherever possible. He stands at the crease like the fat kid from school who couldn’t do sport. If you’d never seen him bat before you’d wonder what he was doing in an international team. Then suddenly as the ball’s just about to arrive, his body moves into exactly the right position and the ball is dispatched to the boundary. Then he just stands there like nothing’s happened and he looks like a malcoordinate again. A malcoordinate’s someone who has staggeringly bad co-ordination.

The point is that Inzy moves only if he absolutely has to. Economy of movement doesn’t describe it. This is someone who can play every shot in the book and refuses, point blank, to do anything else.

We’re realising that we could probably write about Inzy forever. We’re going to stop though.

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