Re: Misbah Ul Haq speaking and criticizing after the loss
When a guy says SR of 73 is pathetic and ‘unacceptable’ and somehow SR of 75 is amazingly good, one should better keep quiet and not respond to such mindless ramblings. One can always pick and choose statistics to make a point.
Fawad Alam is a good batsman and perhaps should be in the team but he certainly is not the greatest thing that happened to Pakistan since sliced bread.
Sa1eem bhai keeps crying about Fawad Alam’s 3 innings in Australia. Umar Akmal played in those matches as well and made more runs in each innings with much higher average and similar strike rate. Does this make Akmal better batsman than Fawad? Misbah never played in Australia before world cup. How does comparing them make any sense? And when he played, his strike rate is better than Fawad. Why cry about him being slow? How does comparing Fawad (5 down batsman) with openers make sense? If you blindly look at Averages and SRs, then even Wahab Riaz’s (AVG 37 SR 106) batting record in Australia is better than Fawad’s (AVG 39 SR 67).
I don’t really have time but almost all comparisons he presents are flawed, in statistical sense. And when I do challenge, he says “You don’t know about cricket”.
Thanks.