Rate your opener on the scale of 1-10. 10 being the best opener ever played for any team.
since present Pakistani openers are not that great, so I am trying to find the “Andhon mein kana Raja”. Here is my rating
Yasir 4.4
Tofeeq 3.3
Akmal 4.9
Hafeez 3.9
Farhat 3.9
Nazir 4.1
Butt 4.5
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Yasir 2
Tofeeq 4
Akmal 2
Hafeez 4
Farhat 3
Nazir 7
Butt 6
**Afridi **5
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Afridi 4.5
Yasir 2.5
Tofeeq 4
Akmal 2
Hafeez 3
Farhat 2.5
Nazir 4
Butt 2
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Butt 6
Afridi 5 (should only open on sub-continental tracks excluding Sri Lanka!)
Malik (has opened in the past) 4
Imran Nazir (only in the one-dayers) 5
The rest are not even worth considering!
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Hafeez - 0
Butt - 6
IMHO - The rest are not and cannot be classified as international cricket openers.
Farhat, Nazir, Hameed, Hafeez, they are all useless.
Its time to try Khalid Latif & Khurram Mansoor in the Zimbabwe series.
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other than salman butt (who still needs to improvement) none of the openers have even shown signs of ever filling in saeed anwar's shoes....
imran nazir shows a glimpse of being a good opener once every 25 matches, other than that we've got no openers....
afridi is same at the opening spt as he wud be on #11 so cant classify him as an opener....
we need to find a decent partner for salman....
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I say we partner our golden boy Salman Butt with Ehsan Bhai. Ratings will automatically sky-rocket. :D
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I say we partner our golden boy Salman Butt with Ehsan Bhai. Ratings will automatically sky-rocket. :D
Nice try...post your rating please.
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Yasir ** 5
*Taufeeq * 5
*Akmal * 6
*Hafeez * 4
*Farhat * 5
*Nazir * 6
*Butt * 7
*Afridi * 6
**Malik 5
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Yaasir Hameed + Taufeeq Umer + Kamran Akmal + Mohammad Hafeez + Imran Farhat + Imran Nazir + Salman Butt + Shahid Afridi + Shoaib Malik
They can fluctuate anywhere from a scale of 1 to 10 on any given day. Honorable mentions (shout-outs) to the king of bandana-maker Imran Farhat for fluctuating very unpredictably for all of last year.
Let the ratings continue for:
"Andhon mein kana Raja"
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Rate your opener on the scale of 1-10. 10 being the best opener ever played for any team. since present Pakistani openers are not that great, so I am trying to find the "Andhon mein kana Raja". Here is my rating
Yasir 4.4 Tofeeq 3.3 Akmal 4.9 Hafeez 3.9 Farhat 3.9 Nazir 4.1 Butt 4.5
Best openers to play for any team are Saeed Anwar, Gilchrist, Hayden, Jaysuriya and others. With that in mind, these openers will make a combined rating of 0.
If you mean "Pakistan has ever produced" than;
Yasir 2
Taufeeq 2
Akmal 1, even though he is a great late order batsman, but has failed miserably has an opener.
Hafeez 1
Farhat 2
Nazir 2
Butt 3
Afridi 2
Malik 1
The only thing Salman Butt has proved so far is that unlike others, he can actually bat on flat wickets. He lacks aggression. There were many instances where he was playing defensive cricket. I liked the Salman Butt of 2005 India and England series. In those series Butt, even with mistakes and flaws, played with some sense of mission. He had a target in mind, right now, not so much. I have been watching him since the Abu Dhabi series and he is not taking the initiative away from the opponents.
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Younus Khan 8
Yousuf 9
Since they are virtually opening the inning for Pakistan for quite some time …its about time we recognize their effort 
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I Would Like To See Salman Butt & Asim Kamal Opening In Tests.
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Best openers to play for any team are Saeed Anwar, Gilchrist, Hayden, Jaysuriya and others.
and Tendulkar!
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^ yes, Tendulkar. He once was a middle order batsmen like Yousuf and Younis, but during '96 world cup became a legend in the game of Cricket.
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The poll is not over yet, but here are the numbers so far
Yasir 15.9
Taufeeq 18.3
Akmal 15.9
Hafeez 15.9
Farhat 16.4
Nazir 28.1
Butt 34.5
I did not mention Afridi or malik, but since many people rated them also so I am including them here.
Afridi 26.5 (my rating 4.0)
Malik 17.6 (my rating 3.7 - though I dont think we will see him opening again)
Based on this poll, we can see Butt and Nazir as people's choice (so far). Interesting, I wonder if we should give this pair a shot :).
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I Would Like To See Salman Butt & Asim Kamal Opening In Tests.
Interesting choice. Asim Kamal can provide what we have been missing all along, i.e. the guts to stay on the wicket.
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Based on this poll, we can see Butt and Nazir as people's choice (so far). Interesting, I wonder if we should give this pair a shot :).
Well thats what I have been crying for at the Indian tour. I'm pretty sure both openers as a pair would have done some more damage to the Indians.
Nevermind, games over.
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Best openers to play for any team are Saeed Anwar, Gilchrist, Hayden, Jaysuriya and others. With that in mind, these openers will make a combined rating of 0.
I do not think Saeed Anwar consistently performed at the same level as lets say Hayden. But interestingly, his highs were very high. On his day he could have out-performed anyone in the world. His innings of 194 runs took just 147 balls. Compare it with Viv Richards 189 which took 167 balls. Twice in his ODI career, he had 3 hundreds in a row, followed by a run of many inconsistent and below par performances. He was the sweetest timer of the ball that I have seen though, indeed a very very talented player.
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