Bravo Butt!

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Re: Bravo Butt!

@aliyish

I wonder if he can craft something like this on bouncy pitches

Yeah, i wonder too. Though he did get a test century in australia once.

@Some1

But quite frankly, though he played superbly yesterday - **one could see that he has a very limited array of shots. **Once Zaheer/RPS started to come around the wicket limiting the width for Butt to slash his bat, there was not much Butt could do. Also, he does not seem to be very comfortable against spinners.

I agree. It was all point and cover and mostly offside. He just has that one slash and the occasional pull. And to be honest no his whole innings was not pure class. He started off being extremely lucky with quite a few edges and some beautiful gold medal performance fielding by indians. And did the runs dry up or what once the spinners came on.

He is far from being a complete batsman, though he has shown major improvement on this tourny. But then again, like Some1 said, indian (and pakistani) pitches are no place to guage a batsman’s worth.