Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Exactly, if the shmuck coach and ex-captain thinks he is good enough to be captain then why was he not part of WC ODI squad? I believe Waqar Younis is looking at another tenure to work with a sheepish captain
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
**New Misbah **
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Exactly, if the shmuck coach and ex-captain thinks he is good enough to be captain then why was he not part of WC ODI squad? I believe Waqar Younis is looking at another tenure to work with a sheepish captain
Well, Azhar is revenge of Misbah, Waqar and PCB management.
Pakistan has potential to be amongst 'top 3' in ranking, but if Pakistan improves their ranking than PCB management, Selection committee, Misbah and Waqar would look bad and ill of Pakistan cricket would become obvious. So, something has to be done ... and that is what been done.
Make Azhar Captain. Obviously, as captain he would always be in team and would bat at number 3 or 4. Most of the time he would do tuk-tuk according to his nature. Since doing tuk-tuk in ODI, you can make expensive runs, that is make 40 odd runs wasting 80 odd balls (or 13 odd overs). In other words, in many games Azhar would stay on crease for around 25 to 30 odd overs and since few singles would be made in those overs (other players would be slowed down too), Pakistan would mostly going to make 90 odd runs in those middle overs.
Due to Azhar captaincy promoting players to get runs without caring about 'how fast', many players would do tuk tuk too (as that would not matter). That mean, Pakistan would make another 100 odd runs in remaining 20 to 25 overs, giving Pakistan a potential of around 190 runs per inning.
Maybe aggressive Sarfraz as vice captain (with secure place) would try to accelerate scoring and since he would open, all would depend on first fall of wicket, because run rate would slow down drastically after fall of Sarfraz wicket and Azhar coming to bat. So, when Sarfraz as opener would make good runs, maybe Pakistan might succeed in chasing or giving higher target (I mean, few more runs).
Obviously, such team would not be able to chase or give target of more than 220 runs and would seldom going to make over 250 runs (white chasing or giving target) ... and that type of score would only give few successes in ODIs but mostly failures.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Well, Ijaz is revenge of Misbah, Waqar and PCB management.
ye kaun hay?
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
^^^ Sorry, I mean Azhar. I would correct my mistake. Thanks. :)
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^ I still think its mainly Waqar and PCB management who wants another ‘yes sir’ captain. People who think its okay to bring a player who is not even part of squad and make him captain will work because it worked in case of Misbah they are mistaken. Misbah commanded his position very well
and if below is true:
http://javedch.com/sports/
then they have f’d Pakistan very well, qom ko cheekhnay ka moqa bhi nahi den gai
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Pakistan kay bay-ghairat players retire nahi hotay, unhay dhakka day ker nikala jaata hay.
Unhay kaha jata hay kay bohut ho giya, aap nay Pakistan kee ab achchi tarah baja dee hay, jayean aur aaraam karyen. Then in Media these Players say that they are retiring meanwhile they keep sending various parchis to get back in team.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
^ sa1eem : but why other players will slow down. Azhar main role should be to stay at the crease at one end while others shud play their strokes which they love to do so.
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Misbah should stay on for an additional year as captain to groom Ijaz properly.
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^ sa1eem : but why other players will slow down. Azhar main role should be to stay at the crease at one end while others shud play their strokes which they love to do so.
First of all, there are only 300 balls to play, so to play tuk-tuk in any situation means losing the game anyhow. Secondly, if players are selected on merit than to play 50 overs should not be problem. Anyhow, if blocking is the requirement than even taileneders can play 50 overs on their own, and they regularly do that in test matches where wickets are made more difficult to bat then ODIs. In ODIs, batsmen do not get out because they could not play tuk-tuk and block the balls, they get out because they could not score fast.
As for why a slow middle order batsmen, especially if he is Captain of team, can slow other players too? ...
There are many Reasons and I will give you few:
Tuk-tuk players do not rotate the strike efficiently, and that means they do not make runs themselves as well as they do not let others make runs. Because both batsmen on crease have to run to make singles and turn singles to doubles, if one is slow or play too carefully, than other slow down too, as they then cannot take singles or doubles easily.
If one wants to observe that, one should see Pak vs Ireland, where Misbah partnering Sarfarz did not wanted to take runs that Sarfraz would have taken with most other players. If runs were taken, then ones were not converted into twos even when there was opportunity, and this not only made Sarfraz scoring slow, but made Sarfraz nervous too.
Same happened when Pakistan played SA. Pakistan was 92 for 1 after 16 overs when Misbah came. Before that Younis with Sarfraz was making runs at reasonable pace. Anyhow, once Misbah came in, Younis run rate also dropped because Misbah was blocking and was not even letting Younis take runs. Together, even with opportunity, they were not converting singles to doubles. Under pressure, Younis lost his wicket too. Misbah manged only 9 runs in first 29 balls he faced.
Finally, when Captain himself score slow than Captain cannot say to other batsmen (or expect from them) that they should score fast. Other batsmen seeing Captain playing slow, play slow too. Obviously playing slow makes batsmen life easy, and it also means less chance of they loosing their wickets, at least that is what they would believe. Thus batsmen try to increase their time on crease and slowly increase their score too, at the expense of run rate (and team winning chances).
That is the reason, under Misbah, Pakistan was 220 runs team and 'pathetic losers' written on their forehead. With Azhar, Pakistan would be 200 runs team and eventually would struggle to win ODI matches against Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or Ireland.
Note: If it was 1990s than 220 runs team was fine, but in present day and age, where batsmen have undue advantage because of batting friendly pitches, newly introduced bowling and fielding rules, even 300 runs is not a challenging score anymore.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
I’ve a sense he’ll come back (once again) too…
And well-informed Cricinfo put it this way:
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RIP Pakistan cricket! He is actually worse tuk tuk than Misbah. He will be another Misbah like, non-century maker in ODIs with 50s because his strike rate is 65 in 14 ODIs and he will play slow cricket and others around him will get out trying to pick up the pace of scoring runs. And he will look like a hero in the end because he bats slow and doesnt rotate strike. He can bowl a few overs so hopefully he can become an allrounder and be more useful than tuk tuk. Thats only good thing I see about him. he bowls regularly in domestic cricket.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Wrong choice...Azhar Ali like Asad Shafique is simply not an ODI player...Period!
Hafeez could still be a better choice as Captain ... :D
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Very good decision. Azhar seems to have all the right ingredients to make a successful caption. As far as his slow batting is concerned, the guy has improved his game over the years. He is not a big hitter of the cricket ball and perhaps will never become one, but he has it in him to bat through an ODI innings, time and again, while keeping his strike rate into eighties and nineties.
Overall, there is a very good chance that Pakistan ODI cricket (and test cricket too later on) will improve a lot under his captaincy.
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In the current squad, either the players are too junior or politically tainted. From the WC lot, if Shahzad had performed he would have been a good choice.
Azhar Ali is Misbah Junior. A safe approach would do for now...stay away from Akmals, Shoaib Malik etc
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his current SR is around 65, he would have to tremendously improve his rotation and hitting capability to bump the SR into 80s/90s.
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He has played only 14 ODIs, last of them in 2013. Going by his recent limited overs performances, (Innings:9, Runs: 535, AVG:60, SR:87, 50s:3, 100s:2) it can be said that he has the ability to improve all aspects of his statistics.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
He has played only 14 ODIs, last of them in 2013. Going by his recent limited overs performances, (Innings:9, Runs: 535, AVG:60, SR:87, 50s:3, 100s:2) it can be said that he has the ability to improve all aspects of his statistics.
Well, the "average" has the flaw, as you can see how many innings were actually with good SR and how SR is skewed:
39/65, 31/50, 5/13, 58/89, 3/2, 96/119, 7/14, 81/126, 30/49, 5/6, 59/86, 27/30, 9/38, 2/10
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
He has played only 14 ODIs, last of them in 2013. Going by his recent limited overs performances, (Innings:9, Runs: 535, AVG:60, SR:87, 50s:3, 100s:2) it can be said that he has the ability to improve all aspects of his statistics.
Well i really hope he improves his Strike Rate as it's not an option but a requirement. As i said, Misbah had ability to hit BIG whenever he wanted but his issue was strike rotation and hence the criticism. In Azhar's case, he is equally bad in rotating the strike, can't hit big and struggles against spin.
Anyway it's too late to argue over this, let's hope he is successful for Pakistan's case but i don't have high hopes of him at all.
Re: Meet the new ODI captain - Azhar Ali
Haris Sohail would be a better option.