Junaid Khan...

[superman85]

Re: Junaid Khan…

@Nikema

I doubt it. dont think Junaid would have made too much of a difference on the 3-0 result. You need batting to score some consistent runs to make any difference on 3-0, which I never expected from this batting lineup.

While I may normally agree with you here, the fact is that the 0-3 result is in many ways unrepresentative of how things went in the series. There were some session where we matched South Africa, a couple where we floored them, and then obviously the ones where we folded badly. But for all intents and purposes this was not as bad a showing as the one we put up against Australia in Australia a few years back. That was horrific, even with batsmen like Yousuf and Younis in the team.

Here I thought we matched up with South Africa, at least in the 2nd test.

Ajmal did some nice damage upfront, but we lacked penetration. The bowling attack had distinct trouble taking care of lower order and tail-enders, and I feel someone like Junaid may have had a bit of a say there.