Pakistan vs Australia - 1st ODI - Sharjah

Howzat_1 · October 8, 2014, 6:51am

Re: Pakistan vs Australia - 1st ODI - Sharjah

If you just look at the pitches used in AUS (not NZ), some are really spin friendly, and thats enough to merit AFRIDI a place in the playing 11 in AUS… though I also think he should have left atleast a year ago.

Misbah on the other hand doesnt really merit his place in the team just on his batting. Last year he made highest odi score in the world, but then hafeez was close second and we all know how hafeez fares against swing bowling… and has already become Steyn’s fav bunny. This year Misbah had 2 ducks already!!!

73
0
1
4
65
13
36
18
0

These are Misbah’s scores this year. 210 scores in a total of 9 matches, making an average of almost 23 runs only.
For once I would like to see our playing under 19 in the original squad. Most are/were good players, but lost in lime light of the PCB selectors every now and then.

And then we dont have another Imran or a Javed to pluck some marvels outa mud, like waseem, waqar, inzamam…e.t.c

Just look at the Pakistan Batting performance in year 2014. Except Umar and Fawad no one has decent average/SR. I think PCB should give chance to Fawad in Test as they have already done injustice with this nice player. I am sure he is great player then Azhar, Asad or even Sohaib. Sohaib has done well only in one inning of 89* and if we taken out this inning he has nothing on his credit. Sharjeel has also given chances but unable to make his place in squad. Ahmed Shahazad on top but he is playing innings only for him like chandar paul. He does not know how to rotate strike.

As I earlier said we are not getting talented players or after one or two matches they stop performing well.

Misbah is also completely out of touch. Hafeez is not doing good with bat but at least he is bowling nicely in ODIs.

Enough has been said about Afridi. Shafiq who came in ODI squad after one year couldn’t show some performance in this match.

So we have these bunch of batsmen and do we have any other choice ?

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