Pakistan Performance in ODI's

[Captain1]

Re: Pakistan Performance in ODI’s

@ManiaX

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.

To defend Hafeez, his average has been 34.40 since his re-emergence in 2010, it was 37 before this series.
Imran Farhat’s ave is 32.4 for same period (coming back in 2010). But Hafeez is an ‘all-rounder’ while Farhat is so called specialist batsman.
Younis averages 32.91, I agree he should not be in the ODI/T20 team.
Shoaib Malik averages 8 runs since re-inclusion in Sept 2011.
Misbah’s overall average is 42.31 which is NOT pathetic by any means, he is averaging 47 since his come back.

I would axe Farhat, Younis and Malik from the team, bring another opener (may be Nasir Jamshed or Ahmed Shehzad) and pair him with Hafeez for 2-3 series to see how they perform.