We have already seen him bowl brilliantly in SA
In this series too despite playing only one match, he had only 3 less wickets then Nahid with a way better economy(best among fast bowlers, 2nd best overall)
He has an alright list A career as well averaging less then 30 and economy under 6
Should he be considered for the ODIs especially considering the injuries of naseem and salman mirza
atleast bro is resigning himself instead of getting kicked out.
now its time for aqib javed to get out and leave us in peace
lets see if wheel turns once more and babar/rizwan becames captain or it goes to salman
Farhan and Mazz to open again.
lets just hope PCB dont slot someone new in the mix and instead persist with these two who have opened the batting last series as well
A lot of people have been criticizing Shan's defensive fielding and rightly so but i think its not just Shan.
This team has 5 national team captains:
Even Saud has been leading Quetta in PSL and domestic sides for a couple of years now.
Sarfaraz, our current head coach, was all-format captain for Pakistan for 4-5 years.
Asad Shafiq was a Test-match specialist with over 75 Tests, and Umar Gul played nearly 50 Tests.
So this is not a one-person problem. I have been against Shan's captaincy too, but these other senior players are also responsible, and this problem has been going on for a long time. It's not like this happened in one ODI and might be resolved in the next match. No — this has been happening for at least 4-5 Test matches spanning months.
Every day they go back to the dressing room completely hopeless, with opposition batters dominating, and yet does no one discuss what they did wrong? Does no experienced player have enough brain cells to suggest putting on a more attacking field, applying pressure on a new batter, or stopping easy singles and making batters work for runs?
I can only think of two possibilities: either everyone is equally dumb, or Shan refuses to listen to anyone.
please prove me wrong, pls chase down the target and shit on everyone who doubted, pls atleast score 200
i have no faith in this team and I know we will get all out before tea but one can dream.
nearly 165-170 overs to chase 440. 2.5 run per over.
First of all i am not making this post to take the blame of anyone, most of the players in the team played really badly despite the umpiring.
If you have watched the test today you would have heard ramiz basing the umpires for wrong decisions and unfair umpiring and i think he is right but i am not gonna talk about it.
What i wanted to point out is the fact that in previous game too on one or two days the umpires had ended the day early when bang was batting bcs of bad lights and shan argued with them over it but those decision were understandable bcs there was alot of cloud cover.
But today I (and furqan bhatti also mentioned it ) that when only one minute(or even less) was left in lunch and tea, the umpire still decided to have one more over, but in the last session when pakistan got the last wicket, umpire called it stumps despite there being a lot light still left.
What do you guys think, am i overreacting or is there actually unfair umpiring??
the day ended an hour before the sunset