Pakistan Performance in ODI's

Sannan · February 23, 2012, 6:48am

Re: Pakistan Performance in ODI’s

Hafeez is the most over-rated player in the team. Anyone who has an average of 25-26 will not win you matches at the top of the order. If you look at Pakistan’s supposed first choice of top five batsman in ODI’s - here is their pathetic ODI career average:

Hafeez 95 ODIs - average 26.24
Farhat 50 ODIS - average 31.10
Younis 237 ODIS - average 32.91
Akmal 58 ODIS - average 38.04
Malik 203 ODIs - average 33.03
Misbah - 94 ODIS - average 42.31

Top that off, with a keeper who cant bat (Mohammad Salman, Sarfraz Ahmed, Adnan Akmal) and a slogger in Afridi - means you are basically hoping against hope that the opposition bowlers have an off day for most of these guys to score.

There is a distinctive lack of class in this batting line up. Maybe Umar Akmal can become a class player one day, but hes not there yet. Compare the averages of these guys to any other top team - where all their top 5-6 batters average over 40 and even close to 50 and you know why we struggle once we are playing against top teams.

Below is the Average of Top Pakistani ODI players. So 38 or 42 is not a bad average else you ll say Inzi having aver 39 and Saeed Anwer 39 was just pathetic

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Player

Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
SR

Zaheer Abbas
62
60
6
2572
123
47.62
84.8

Misbah-ul-Haq
94
83
20
2666
93*
42.31
75.2

Mohammad Yousuf
281

267
40
9554
141*
42.08
74.91

Javed Miandad
233
218
41
7381
119*
41.7
67.01

Inzamam-ul-Haq
375
348
52
11701
137*
39.53
74.2

Saeed Anwar
247
244
19
8824
194
39.21
80.67

Umar Akmal
58
51
7
1674
102*
38.04
84.16

Yasir Hameed
56
56
1
2028
127*
36.87
66.95

Salman Butt
78
78
4
2725
136
36.82
76.28

Basit Ali
50
43
6
1265
127*
34.18
75.79