PSL 2nd Q.Final: Islamabad United v Karachi Kings at Dubai (DSC), Feb 20, 2016

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He is the Ahmed Shehzad of bowling.... had so many chances in lifetime but performed occasionally. May be he could've been given a chance in Misbah's captaincy where he could've been better utilized.

lolz

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Nahi bhai khuda key liye nahi. He already had his best of all time pitai. Let give more chance to hassan ali . M Asghar. . Nawaz n other young guns. T20 is for youngsters not for chale hoye kartoos

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A pretty one-sided contest

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Haddin 52* & Smith 50* :k:

Karachi Exit! :smiley:

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Islamabad must now believe that they can beat talented but unpredictable (with the bat) Zalmis as well

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Hoping for a Quetta-Islamabad Final

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Me too.

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Me one
We two

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Aap nay yea baat kaisay kah dee? See, how people got agitated, even on this forum, when you mentioned that ... even though none here are selectors. :)

Bura na manna, but you should know that, Sami has to born again from outside Karachi to be in national team. Don't you know? ... Even though Sami has lowest average (15.71) amongst Pakistani fast bowlers who played T20 international, has the best strike rate (gets a wicket every 10 balls), played only 7 matches.

Whereas players like U Gul (second best after Sami), whose average in T20 international is 16.92, strike rate is 1.4 wickets per match (gets a wicket every 14 balls) played 60 matches.

Even player like W Raiz, Irfan and Amir .. all having worse averages and SR than Sami, with big difference, played twice more matches than Same. Even Shoaib Akhtar bowling figures are worse than Sami in T20 international. It is true that Sami's economy is worse (by 1 to 2 runs per over), but a bowler who has such strike rate and such low average per wicket, can shatter the opponent, but, we are talking about Pakistan.

So ... forget Sami playing from national side, as for that, he has to reborn outside Karachi (just like Fawad Alam and many other cricketers). I hope you get that. :)

Here are figures of current fast bowlers in Pakistan who played T20 international.

Figures for T20I … (T 20 international)
[TABLE]

Mat-ches

Balls

Runs

Wkts

Wkts
Per
Match

Best figure

Ave

Eco

S/R

M Sami

7

144

220

14

2

3/16

15.71

9.16

10.2

W Raiz

15

282

392

16

1.07

3/14

24.50

8.34

17.6

M Irfan

13

256

316

8

0.62

2/25

39.5

7.4

32.0

U Gul

60

1203

1443

85

1.42

5/6

16.97

7.19

14.1

M Amir

21

456

557

24

1.14

3/23

23.2

7.23

19.0

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PSL 2nd Q.Final: Islamabad United v Karachi Kings at Dubai (DSC), Feb 20, 2016

Sami has very bad bowling average in test but has very good average and strike rate in shorter format.

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Sami was brilliant today and I have always been a fan of his aggression and hard work.

He was given a fair number of chances in both tests and ODIs and you have got to say that he performed dismally in tests (not sure why? because he has all the ingredients to become a world-class bowler; height aggression, smooth action, genuine pace, ability to swing the ball both ways etc.). An average of 52 might be good for a batsman in this day and age of batting-friendly pitches & rules, but not a bowler!! ODI stats are decent though.

Mohammad Sami | Pakistan Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

With that kind of record, Sami deserved to play at least more ODIs & T20Is for Pakistan

I would have him & Rizwan over Iftikhar (not sure what’s so special about him, ? parchi) and Khurram in my T20 squad any day

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On a side note, if Khurram flops in Asia Cup, Afridi's favourite Shehzad could be back for World T20

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**GoldenAsif: **You are right. Sami has very bad performance in test but has quite reasonable performance in limited overs, better than many who are playing. In ODIs, Sami has similar performance figures to U Gul (same number of wickets per match, similar averages, similar economy and SR) but certainly his records are better than Wahab Riaz and others. Sami's performance in T20I is obviously better than any Pakistani bowlers (present or past).

Mystery is that, regardless of his performance, he was chucked out from all format of game (test understandably, but cant see any reason why he was/is dropped from ODIs and especially T20I).

As for performance of Players from Karachi in national team, most of the time it get subdued because of experience, especially due to discrimination, biases, treatments, behaviours and pressures from team management (Captain and Coaches).

Just imagine, the way Sarfraz was treated in world cup, leave performance, most players would have broken down. Well, when Sarfraz was made vice captain of T20I, and had sterling performance in matches, still Afridi (captain) and waqar (coach) did not hesitated to drop him from playing 11.

Players also see treatment of other players like Fawad (FC ave 57), Mujtaba (FC ave 49), Hasan Raza (FC ave 45), and others, that also make them feel nervous when selected. It naturally effect their performance on ground.

Similarly, if one see List A (domestic 50 over matches) averages of Karachi players, we see that those having averages over 45 get ignored ... for instance Fawad (ave 48), K Latif (ave 45), Khurram (ave 47), etc, ... but at the same time, players like Shahzad (ave 35), Hafiz (ave 35), Umar Akmal (ave 34), Kamran Akmal (ave 30) are regulars in national ODI team. If these players were so good than their averages in domestic games should be higher too, but they make 10 or more runs less per innings than some of Karachi players, but still are in team and Karachi guys are out. Kuch tou majra hay na? :)

So, maybe Sami's bowling performance in test could be result of other factors, as his performance in domestic cricket is similar to other Pakistani fast bowlers ... but then, you are right that Sami got enough test and his performance in test is questionable.

I think, Sarfraz is in national team, because he has cool nerve, and thus kept his nerve and performance intact under pressure and intimidation by coach and captain, else today he would not be playing in national level.