 Argentina's Jorge Lombi and Netherlands's Taeke Taekema are second in line.He is a natural short corner expert with a very strong wrist, a powerful drag flick and a perfected dummy "body dodge" action.He was Pakistani candidate for the FIH Player of the Year award in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004 but failed to outpoint Jay Stacy (Australia), Stephan Veen (Netherlands), Florian Kunz (Germany), Teun de Nooijer (Netherlands) and Jamie Dwyer (Australia) respectively.