1st Test: Bangladesh v Pakistan at Chittagong, Dec 9-13

[Nikema]

Re: 1st Test: Bangladesh v Pakistan at Chittagong, Dec 9-13

@Ajju

For somebody claiming to hate the Karachi-Lahore rivalry thing, you seem to be upset exclusively at inclusion of Karachi players. What is your opinion of Sohail Tanveer playing in the team? How do you feel about Tanveer Ahmed getting kicked out of the team after his performance in tests?

Shail Tanveer: I never had high hopes from him…Never…Proof is given below

Sohail started playing Int cricket on 14th Sep 2007, this thread was created 3 days after that by Captaan asking So who is Sohail Tanvir?

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/cricketnama/264291-so-who-is-sohail-tanvir.html

and here was my reply to Captaan’s Qs…

@Nikema

he is being successful because he keeps the batsmen surprised with delivering the ball of wrong foot.

Speed: basically 80-84 MPH, not bad can always get better.
LnL: Slightly outside Right handed’s off stump, angles across batsmen, length is quite correct for new bowler, slightly short i think but batsmen have not be able to capitilze on (slightly)shortness of bowling coz right now they are trying to figure out his action too much…and are preoccupied with that…

Variety: Not much from what i saw, doonoo if he uses Slow ball or changes length very often…when he went around the wicket in game against SL…surprised batsmen a bit but i think will be lollypop bowler from around the wicket for batsmen as soon as they get over his action…and wait for him to pitch the ball up in attempt to get batsmen out as that will be the only way for him to geta wicket as by bowling around the wicket, with his action, it will bevery hard(nearly impossible) for him to get the ball to move across the batsmen.

What he needs: needs to develop in-Cutter like Pathan and Vaas…obviously needs to learn reverse swing, but with his action, i dont see him being able to generate reverse…BUT on bright side, if he does get any amount of reverse…that will be lethal…even more than Shoaib akhter’s…coz his action is just way too strange one to expect reverse from.

If he helps Pak to T20, i ll be glad….but do not expect this guy in Pak, reversing the ball, gaining pace or developing in cutters like wasim or even Irfan…thats just the reality but i will be glad if he proves me wrong

Tanveer Ahmed I guess you have either not seen him huff and puff trying to run in and bowl after his 1st spell or even during his first spell in test matches and noticed how much his fitness is behind what is required from a cricketer, let alone a fast bowler…Or you are genetically programed to support names from certain parts of Pakistan regardless of their cricketing abilities or lack thereof…My best guess is that you are little bit of both.

Moral of the story: Next time you want to try to bring Karachi-Lahore into a discussion and try to throw random Karachi players name or punjabi players name, try to pick on some KK member whose understanding of game is around same level as yours.

Thanks