Re: Rameez's comments on Yousuf
Its so annoying trying to explain it to people who are defending Yousef here... His performance with a 95 strike rate is GOOD on paper! If someone looks at the scorecard... its an excellent performance! But the way the last few overs were played was PATHETIC! That is EXACTLY the point!
Dont look at the score and the balls faced and say ah yeah,, good performance... see the way they batted in the last overs and you can tell that the nudges for singles and dot balls was just a horribly selfish display of batting... I mean fine, if someone tries, and doesnt succeed in getting boundaries, thats a different story, but god,, they didnt even try! There was no urgency. Fine, when someone opens that scorecard 6 yrs from now and looks at it,, yousaf played a good innings,, if he sees the recording of the last 10 overs,,,, he'll know it could have been a lot better.
The aim is to give your BEST to get the total as big as possible. The aim isnt to play a good individual innings and score 99 off 104 balls and come out and say, hay i did my part, look! the strike rate is 95.. what else do u want me to do. Why did the players build the innings and saved the wickets to the end?? why is it considered such an advantage? to have wickets at the death?? to freakin hit out! which they didnt!
Now dont give me one more stupid justification! it was pathetic batting by both Misbah and Yousef. They did a great job building the innings, and lost that advantage by not capitalizing on the wickets in hand.
Agree! But I think in the last ODI, both TRIED and failed so, whereas I have seen Yousuf playing with a different attitude in other ODIs. We could have done even more in these ODI's and yet he didn't even try to accelerate his game when badly needed so. Finally we been short of 10-15 runs in general.
And Tariq Sahib, I don't think that 255 was a good total especially, when knowing we have Indians to bat next. Almost 8 Batmen and then they are more consistant than Pak Team.