He is too slow. 16 runs in 92 balls and it is not a first time in tests. He is the best hitter in ODI games, better than Afridi after 45 overs. I saw him making 50s after starting from the last four overs.
Maybe he has problem of playing against spinners so that’s why he in struggling in tests.
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^ its not just spinners, he was playing defensive against seamers as well, may be he was instructed to do so, what do we know about that? Look at how all of our batsmen got out, people called him selfish on other threads, what was so selfish about his innings of 16 runs? it wasn't as if he was close to 50 or 100 and he wasted 10 overs to get that 50 / 100.
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Someone said about Abdur-Razzaq some while ago that he only knows to bat in either 1st gear or the 5th gear
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Yes, he can. :)
Maybe he has problem of playing against spinners so that's why he in struggling in tests.
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Many people suggested and I myself was one of them. Pakistan would have been better off to have Samiullah Niazi (since he was among the squad selected for first 2 tests) or in a home series, it would have been better to call in Sami or Naveed ul Hassan, since both are better bowler and recently doing pretty good with bat.
Razzaq is not in good touch, he couldn't even rotate the strike. He couldn't get a single on 5th and 6th ball of a over. Many times, he didn't run for 3rd run or single when he was batting with Malik, because he was not comfortable to face any bowler. He was lucky that Collymore was unlucky and couldn't get his wicket despite beating his outside edge many times.
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
I mean common he is a best hitter in ODI games. He can hit very excellent against seamers.
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Razzaq somehow always seems to be double minded in tests, maybe it is because that he is never sure of his place in the test side,but that pressure is mostly created by none other than himself,Even Afridi has a better record than him both batting and bowling in tests,and he has got 2 hundreds in last 3 tests against this west indian side,and also had a great last home season against England and India, and still he finds himself dropped and what,s even worse that in ODI,s where he actually needs to be dropped he is going to be included again.
To me Razzaq is just not good enough to play as a third seamer in the side specially on a flat track like this,and what,s more they r sending him ahead of Akmal,now if he was playing as a batting allrounder that would have made some sense but playing as a bowling allrounder and still coming ahead of Wicketkeeper batsman who has got 4 test 100s does not make any sense at all.and he himself has got only 3 test 100s in 40+ tests ,2 of which r against BD.
Re: Can't Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Like captain like team, Inzi's defensive mindset of going in with 3 and a half bowlers when you're 1 up in a 3 match series, is reflecting on the team.
Re: Can’t Abdul Razzaq play his one day game?
Pakistan v West Indies, 2nd Test, Multan, 3rd day
Razzaq’s Test credibility questioned again
Osman Samiuddin
November 21, 2006
Abdul Razzaq’s batting has been found wanting in Test cricket © Getty Images
It is a question that comes to haunt Pakistan every now and again. It rears its head once again during this Test. Is Abdul Razzaq really worth a place in the Test side as an all-rounder?
From his contribution here, over three days, tottering as it has somewhere between damaging and utterly irrelevant, the question isn’t even worth asking. As Pakistan tumbled yesterday morning, runs were the hour’s need. Razzaq proceeded then to make possibly the strangest unbeaten 16 in Test cricket. Off 92 balls, in over two hours, it was almost exactly what West Indies, not Pakistan, needed. He achieved the doubly difficult task of neither farming the strike nor scoring any runs. Singles were refused, yet the tail was still left with entire overs to face, it was inexplicable.
It was not a stray incident. At Melbourne in 2004-05, he made a painful, unbeaten four from 76 balls, though it was said he was unwell. In Colombo, also against Australia two years earlier, an excruciating four, from 52 balls, allegedly set the platform from one down for a 300-plus chase. Each time, it was so at odds with the surrounding context that you could only ask why. People say he knows only two gears in his batting - first and fifth - but an experienced ex-Test player and coach also observed that “he gets locked into the two modes, unable to switch between the two.”
Move on: he’s an all-rounder, so you expect some compensation with the ball. Except today, Umar Gul and Shahid Nazir might have received more support from West Indian batsmen. Nominally as a third seamer, Razzaq bowled a piddling ten overs all day, many without a purpose other than allowing us to appreciate the breadth of Brian Lara’s off-side game between cover and third man.
Waqar Younis disagreed with reporters at a press conference later in the day that Razzaq wasn’t a regular bowler. “All four are regular bowlers. Razzaq isn’t in great form but his batting gives us a big edge.”
Ninety-five wickets from 45 Tests at near 40.00, with one five-wicket haul are figures that would concern part-time bowlers. And a circle has more edge than his batting, if just two fifties in his last 25 Tests are anything go by.
Whichever angle you look at his Test career from, it doesn’t make for pretty reading. Arguably, on only one Test has he had a genuine all-round influence - against India at Karachi recently, where seven wickets were complemented by innings of 45 and 90. Centuries, a hat-trick, occasional four-wicket hauls he has as well but they’ve been stretched out so much over an entire career it almost isn’t worth noting.
Pakistan could have done with either a specialist batsman or a specialist bowler in this Test and currently Razzaq is neither. His place in the ODI side is the subject of less debate and rightly so, for he serves a purpose there but in Tests, increasingly it seems he is there on reputation and hope alone, neither of which is the right criteria. He is a big name in Pakistan cricket but as the West Indies showed with Ramnaresh Sarwan, they are not indispensable.
To be fair, Razzaq isn’t the first, nor will he be the last, to look ordinary when the mood grabs Lara. Certainly not Danish Kaneria, who if he didn’t know it already in his fourth Test against Lara, must know by now that the man can play spin. It’s not as if Kaneria bowled badly and even Lara acknowledged that. He got sharp spin and bounce on occasion and troubled almost everyone else. Sure, the good balls didn’t come consistently enough but he wasn’t as bad as four an over from 41 overs, with only three wickets, was he? Though he rarely seems to bowl a genuinely poor spell, it just isn’t happening for him right now, which can be either cause for worry or frustration. Time will tell.
Sometimes though, like Waqar chose to do, you just have to applaud genius. “It isn’t the easiest pitch to bowl on. The bowlers tried their hardest but you also have to give full credit to their batsmen. Lara is a genius and you won’t find many cricketers in the history of the game like him.”
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