Re: Misbah?
When a person is one eyed (Kana) then it is best that he gathers blinds (andha) all around him and then he would become King. Misbah is doing the same. He make sure that all who can really play good cricket and can perform, do not get into team, as their presence in team would make Misbah performance look pathetic. So, with pathetic players in team, many unwary would say that since all batsmen in team cannot play, Misbah has to play slow.
Fact is that, Pakistan with 200 million people, and long history of cricket, where cricket is played in every corner, there must be 100s of quality batsmen, but they are kept out of public notice so that pathetic one-eyed players could dominate the team as hero.
Just imagine, we only know few players who somehow got exposure and thus we can talk about them. Hence I am putting down the performance of some top Pakistani batmen who got chance to play ODI in 2014. One can see that performance of one player, with average 69 and SR 77 was outstanding. So, it is obvious that he (Fawad) was kept out of team so that lowly pathetic players could play.
Performance of Pakistani batsmen in 2014.
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Players
Fwd.
Msbh
Shzad
Hafz
Haris
Yunis
U Ak
Shob
Srfrz
A Shf
N Jmd
25 Feb (SL)
73
28
18
74
17
27 Feb (Af)
0
50
10
102
13
2 Mar (Ind)
1
42
75
4
38
4 Mar (BD)
74
4
103
52
14*
2
8 Mar (SL)
114*
65
5
3
59
23 Aug (SL)
62
13
49
21
3
15
89*
26 Aug (SL)
30
36
56
62
1
9
30 Aug (SL)
38*
18
10
1
7
7
7 Oct (Aus)
7
0
4
46
34 (o)
13
10 Oct (As)
20*
15
61
5
61 (o)
29
12 Oct (As)
0
26
34
32 (o)
50
8 Dec (NZ)
13
28
6
85*
4
26
5
12 Dec (NZ)
47
0
76
33
6
23
1
14 Dec (NZ)
113
33
39
35
0
30*
23
17 Dec (NZ)
0
3
13
103
29
18
30
19 Dec (NZ)
12
65
54
6
26
7
0
Total Runs
345
285
587
360
235
205
362
209
250
128
30
Average
69
23.75
36.68
30
58.75
41
30.16
29.85
35.72
18.28
15
Note: After 12 Oct, it was obvious that if Fawad would be in team, performance of players like Misbah would become joke. So, Fawad was dropped before NZ ODI series. Here is performance, and what happened before Fawad was dropped. Actually, Misbah used to send him low in order so that he could not make much runs, and that is the reason, 3 out of 8 times, he stayed undefeated with no partners. Still, even at low batting order, he performed exceptionally well.
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Players
Performance before NZ series in Dec
Innings
Runs
Average
SR
Fawad Alam
8
345
69.0
77.35
A Shahzad
11
434
39.45
74.82
Umar Akmal
10
327
40.87
102.5
M Hafeez
8
242
30.25
78.57
Misbah
10
225
22.50
69.65
One can see from figures above that Misbah strike rate was always pathetic. One should also see from overall figures (presented earlier) why Sarfraz is not playing in World cup. He is in team as wicket-keeper, but his batting performance is also much better than most players (Sarfraz test average is above 40, and that is rare for Pakistani test players). Sarfraz can even open and his performance as opener is much better than Shahzad or any Pakistani opener. Sarfraz opened Pakistan ODI matches against Australia and scored over 30 runs in each inning. Actually, he made 126 runs in 3 innings he opened at an average of 42.
In those 3 innings against Australia, Shahzad made 91 runs at an average of 30.
What was done after that? Sarfraz was demoted to number 7 or 8 against NZ, so that he comes, make few quick runs and get out. This step can demoralize and player, and must have demoralized Sarfraz too (he was making fast runs as opener, still he wad demoted for no reason). Anyhow, Sarfraz performance lower down the order was also good (he made quick runs at reasonable average of 31 ... Sarfraz over all average in 2014 was 35.72).
This is how pathetic Pakistani players like Misbah and his group do politics victimizing players (at the expense of country).
), Sohaib, Shehzad etc., but they still continue to not perform in these games and Misbah continues to perform better than them.
