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Title: Qadir Beaten for a Turn
Author: Ron Reed
Source:  Herald-Sun (October 10, 1995)

For afficionados of the noble art of leg-spin bowling, the prospect 
of Shane Warne and Abdul Qadir on opposite sides this summer was too 
good to be true.

And sadly, that's the case - apparently for the same reason that 
usually dictates who's in or who's out of any Pakistani team.  Office 
politics.

There have been rumors for months that the rubber-wristed Qadir, now 
40, would make a comeback for Pakistan in Australia ths summer, but 
they were as good as dashed on two fronts yesterday.

In Islamabad, the Pakistani selectors named a squad for this week's 
one-day series against Sri Lanka and the West Indies, the final 
warm-up before leaving for Australia the weekend after next.

Qadir, who took 236 wickets in his 67 Tests, wasn't in it.

>From Perth, organiser Keith Slater admitted defeat in his attempts to 
get Qadir to play on the same side as Warne in the Lilac Hill 
festival match that will open the Pakistanis' tour on October 26.

Slater, who said arranging travel from Lahore had proved too 
difficult, said Qadir had told him he had been asked to be on standby 
for the national team.

"He is still playing first-class cricket and he told me he is still 
the best and fittest bowler they've got, but that he won't be making 
himself available because he doesn't get on with some of the others 
in the team," Slater said.

It's such a laughably common story in Pakistani cricket - and rarely 
more so than when the eccentric Qadir used to be involved - that it's 
a wonder they ever manage to field a side at all.

Former Pakistani captail Imran Khan also refused an invitation to 
play in the festival match, leaving Warne, Merv Hughes, Matthew 
Elliott and the 47-year-old Dennis Lillee as the guest players.

They will be joined by WA's Damien Martyn, Justin Langer, Tom Moody, 
Mark Lavender, Adam Gilchrist, Brendon Julian and new left-hand 
batsman Simon Catich who will be 12th man.

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