Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..)

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Well a great match ended between PAK and SAF, visitors won but they deserved to, and it was a great fightback from Pakistan after being 55-4 with yet another disappointing start.

Afridi played a terrific innings, I’m not an Afridi fan myself but this is definitely his best ODI innings in the last 2 years–under lights, a lot of pressure, and clean safe power hitting from the big man. I think his place is somewhere around 4 down…coming in with 15-20 overs left and smashing a quickfire 50. For the openers we have a solid choice in Yasir Hameed who can be a perfect foil to Imran Nazir’s aggression. Hafeez has been really disappointing for someone with solid technique and such a decent temperament

Anyway what interested me a lot was Sohail Tanvir’s batting. First of all he smashed a brutal 26 off 17 balls on debut, that’s excellent by any standards. Here’s a big powerful left-arm bowler with the ability to easily hoick bowlers over the leg side when batting…sound familiar?

I think he learned his bowling from Wasim Akram but his batting also brings back Akram’s batting style–walking across the stumps and creaming it to leg, huge follow-through with those massive hoicks over cow corner and those effortless flicks over square leg…He’s only played a few international matches, so it’s still early days, but if he keeps playing like this he could become the closest thing we’ve had to Wasim Akram in a while-if he keeps up this kind of performance and polishes up his bowling. When was the last time we had a good left-hand allrounder?

This match brought back that 2003 ODI vs New Zealand, also @ Lahore–except we won that one and SAF are a stronger team. But it was yet another great

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

fightback, I meant to say

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

i'd say he's more of a abdul razzaq than a wasim akram; all though if he improves his bowling like akram than its right on.

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

good enough!

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

'perfect foil', 'cow corner'... did you learn your English from CricInfo, by any chance? :)

Tanvir is good. Not sure about Akram double though. It takes a long time to become worthy of an all-time great. Tanvir has age on his side. Lets see how he shapes up.

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

A very very mediocre bowler at his best.

In the 20/20 cricket, any one can take wickets as the batsman is forced to play his shots left and right. To a lesser extent, the same phenomenon can also be extended to the 50/50 cricket. But the test cricket is a totally different animal in which the greatness of a bowler is measured by his ability to “force” batsman to commit mistakes. I simply don’t see Sohail Tanveer getting wickets in the test cricket as he lacks both variety and speed. His biggest asset – the unpredictability of his action - will soon become his biggest liability once international batsmen figure out his action properly. But he can definitely become a successful all-rounder for ODI.

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

He has to improve his bowling dramatically in order to be in foot steps of Sir Akram

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Re: Tanvir–the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

:smack: Ohh..and I thought Indian were good at building Hypes.

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

So you now have a STUD Bowler to go with the recently discovered STUD batsman. bas ek *STUD Fielder ki kami reh gayi*

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

why don't u indians worry about that monkey srisant and leave the pakistani prospect talk to us.

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Re: Tanvir–the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

:hehe:

good one really

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

Yeah I should have been clearer--I said it was too early to say yet, just guessing if he keeps up a good performance like this as a LONGTERM PROSPECT. Of course he's nothing on Akram after just 1 ODI.

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Re: Tanvir–the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

Difference here is this hype is not created by the media but it is his personal opinion. Same goes for stud comment. It was his personal opinion. No where in Pakistani media has ever called anyone STUD whatever or next Wasim Akram.

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

notice the TOO EARLY TO SAY and LONGTERM parts people

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

main hoon na!

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Re: Tanvir–the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

so far they all have been proved DUD… :nook: :stuck_out_tongue: :halo:

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

He is left handed ,right .But is that God's own left arm?

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For the last time...I'm talking about POTENTIAL

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

For the first time when did u start watching cricket ?

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Re: Tanvir--the closest thing to Wasim Akram?(Probably too early to say, but anyway..

bhai sahib, problem is that we have had way too many threads about "Potentials" who later on failed us i.e. Salman Butt, Imran Farhat etc. People don't care about "potential" now as much until they prove themselves on different grounds and against different opposition, something like what Mohammad Asif did.