Re: QF Australia vs. Pakistan 20th March 2015 @ Adelaide (3rd QF)
It would have been better to say that … thanks Misbah that you made sure only toddlers get in team so that a boy like you, with your tuk tuk, seems good.
[One reason Fawad was not included in team, and was always ignored, was that performance of Misbah looks good].
As for Afridi: I think with whatever fault he has, he is not proper batsman that one should expect runs from him, neither he is world class bowler (he is average bowler). But together, as pinch hitter and useful slow arm (leg break) bowler, he has done good job. Anyhow, because Pakistan have no proper batsmen in team, consisting of 3rd class batsmen, some started looking at Afridi as batsman too and start expecting too much from him.
Just imagine … in test:
Afridi (not batsman) … who played 48 innings, has Ave 36.5 @SR 87 … with 5 centuries … is better than most Pakistani batsmen .. for instance, looking at test matches, we see the performance:
Shahid Afridi … played 48 innings, Ave 36.5 @ SR 87 … 5 centuries
Umar Akmal … played 30 innings, Ave 35.8 @SR 66 … 1 century
Amir Sohail … played 83 innings, Ave 35.3 @SR 55.3 … 5 centuries
Shoaib Malik … played 54 innings, Ave 33.5 @SR 44.4 … 2 centuries
Ramaiz Raja … played 92 innings, Ave 32 … 2 centuries
So we can see that Shahdi Afridi is better batsmen than many .. and as for ODIs, he plays as pinch hitter and is the only Pakistani whose SR (117) is above 100.