 Four months later, he was dropped from the Pakistan Junior squad.Pakistan Junior team manager Samiullah Khan and coach Ayaz Mahmood were not convinced to include him for the 1997 World Cup staged in Milton Keynes - an underwhelming squad that failed to making it to the Junior World Cup semi-finals for the first time in the cup's 25-year history.Finally, he made his debut the following year on the national team and has since become arguably hockey's most prolific goalscorer of all time.