Found a video of Mohammad Irfan bowling. This guy is tall, aggressive, and fast.. a lethal combination. Ijaz Butt should have his head examined.
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jeeeeeeeeeezzzz…how tall is he??? 
are they playing against Sri Lanka or India? coz the players are short
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they're pakistanis ... cuz this video is from the domestic circuit
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oh okkkk...cool but nice bowling!
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Its nice he is tall but I think we are not doing modeling in cricket :D
Do you got his cricket stats (even at domestic level)?
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his cricketing stats are pretty decent too to be honest ... i think he needs a little bit of expirience though since this is his first first-class season ... he is very impressive in his first season and I think he will get a chance soon enough
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He is good Masha Allah . . .
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http://www.cricinfo.com/pakdomestic-09/content/current/player/429981.html
Look at his “Strike Rate” for bowling :k:
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you're right aaliyah... couple of those shots it did look like he was bowling to tendulkar or something.
you're right aaliyah... couple of those shots it did look like he was bowling to tendulkar or something.
When his own height is 7ft+ then others will look too short comparatively.
thats pretty nice..
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Confusion remains over Mohammad Irfan's actual height - the PCB has variously measured him at 6'8", 6'10" and 7'1". If he is indeed 7'1", he could be the tallest cricketer around, surpassing his idol Joel Garner. Irfan is a product of rural Pakistan, hailing from the eastern Pakistan town of Gaggu Mandi, which produced another tall former Pakistan quick, Mohammad Zahid. The lack of opportunities in his home town forced him to quit playing cricket and seek full-time employment to support his family. He was working in a plastic pipe factory and playing club cricket before Aaqib Javed had summoned him to the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. Aaqib was enthused by what he saw and soon after, he was playing first-class cricket for Khan Research Laboratories. He took nine wickets in his second game and ended the season with an impressive 43 wickets in ten games. He came close to national selection when he was named as a replacement for one of the injured seamers for the 2010 World Twenty20, but his name was withdrawn.
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Impressive, he need to coached by aaqib or waqar
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he is already 27+. This is the time he needs to be at the top level, else, selectors would start saying that he is too old for senior team.
I'm watching all the ongoing pentagular cup games and he is playing for Baluchistan Bears...and to be honest he looks very raw still...he will be unplayable on bouncy pitches but he doesn't really swing the ball much. I think a little more coaching and a few more games domestically as well as playing for Pakistan A would be needed before he is drafted into the Pakistan team.
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typical emotional overreaction. anything to bash the PCB with I guess?
you make a highlight package of anyone and you can make Afridi look better than Richards, Lara and Tendulkar combined. Irfan has some ways to go as mentioned by Yasir. the same feedback was given by other fans who actually watched him bowl in a proper match situation. there is obviously a lot of potential but it's not like he is Joel Garner already.
people were nuts about everyone from Sohail Khan, Talha, Khurram Manzoor recently to Salman Butt in the past and fans were alleging that it was Israel and India who had bought off the traitors in PCB and thus, were preventing these guys from debuting for Pakistan. and when they debuted, we clearly saw they were not finished articles. guess Israel and India wasted all that money.
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This guy is nothing more than a wet dream of people who are experts of cricket on online forums....
this is what i wrote about him on another forum
------------- Me replying to a thread about him refusing to play in Eng League -----------------
I think its a mistake that he is making, lets face it he CAN NOT make it into the current bowling line up of Amir, Asif, Gul (when fit), Talha, Wahab and Sohail Khan. His best bet was to go and play in that league to enhance his abilities as bowlers and gain some more confidence which now he has said NO to, He would have learned to bowl on conditions that he is not comfortable with, he would have been away from PCB academy in a foreign environment.
Big Mistake in my honest opinion!
Good news for the Asad guy, he to me has looked a better bowler than Irfan and he should learn more from this opportunity!
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What is that you have seen that makes him a better bowler than Talha and Wahab and even Sohail. He doesn't swing, doesn't vary his length, line, almost no use of crease, no change of pace....he has not developed any of the abilities that are required to bowl at international level.
I agree on need of at least 5 pacers in Eng but you have to be a bowler who is more than run in and bang the ball short at batsman. At International level this is what is required otherwise any international player would adopt to Irfan's bowling very comfortably. Waqar would probably take Irfan to Eng But more than likely he would take him there so that he gets to learn to bowl in environment that he is not used to off....I doubt he will play (or he deserves to play) in any of tests based on what we have seen in his bowling. A smart use of his bowling is to use him in nets to provide practice to our batsman of left arm bowlers bowling short at them (as Aussies have 3 lefties who have very good short pitched balls) and I think this is what is best use of irfan both in camp and may be in England this summer.
The biggest thing is irfan needs to do now (infact he needed to do it all along his career) is learn how to bowl and NOT try to impress selectors. He learns how to bowl, he has a far bigger chance of making it into side than banging it short pitched balls and hoping that some selector he eventually has no power in selection (because of Mr Butt) will get impressed.
This opportunity would have given a chance to focus on learning how to bowl in environment where he doesn't have to be concerned about being watched by selector. He would have learned how to handle different pitches, different batsman, different weather, different match conditions but he has chosen to bowl on dust bowls in an attempt to get attention with no variety, no swing and just short pitched stuff. What has been happening in Irfan's case that he is concentrating too much on trying to Impress than trying to learn how to bowl.
To me his height created this hype. Surely there are many more talented players in our domestic circuit e.g., Anwar Ali. As somebody said he is already 27 yeras old so even if he is selected within 2 years and then took 2/3 years to establish, he will be already touching retirement age of fast bowlers.
Just to put things into perspective his figures in Pentangular league before finals are 4 Mtchs, 38 Ov, 3 Mdns, 209 Runs, 5 Wkts, 41.80 Avg, 5.5 Econ.
Re: This is what we're passing up - Shame on you Ijaz Butt
This guy is nothing more than a wet dream of people who are experts of cricket on online forums....
this is what i wrote about him on another forum
------------- Me replying to a thread about him refusing to play in Eng League -----------------
I think its a mistake that he is making, lets face it he CAN NOT make it into the current bowling line up of Amir, Asif, Gul (when fit), Talha, Wahab and Sohail Khan. His best bet was to go and play in that league to enhance his abilities as bowlers and gain some more confidence which now he has said NO to, He would have learned to bowl on conditions that he is not comfortable with, he would have been away from PCB academy in a foreign environment.
Big Mistake in my honest opinion!
Good news for the Asad guy, he to me has looked a better bowler than Irfan and he should learn more from this opportunity!
----------------My Reply to another post in same thread ---------------------
What is that you have seen that makes him a better bowler than Talha and Wahab and even Sohail. *He doesn't swing, doesn't vary his length, line, almost no use of crease, no change of pace....he has not developed any of the abilities that are required to bowl at international level. *
I agree on need of at least 5 pacers in Eng but you have to be a bowler who is more than run in and bang the ball short at batsman. At International level this is what is required otherwise any international player would adopt to Irfan's bowling very comfortably. Waqar would probably take Irfan to Eng But more than likely he would take him there so that he gets to learn to bowl in environment that he is not used to off....I doubt he will play (or he deserves to play) in any of tests based on what we have seen in his bowling. A smart use of his bowling is to use him in nets to provide practice to our batsman of left arm bowlers bowling short at them (as Aussies have 3 lefties who have very good short pitched balls) and I think this is what is best use of irfan both in camp and may be in England this summer.
The biggest thing is irfan needs to do now (infact he needed to do it all along his career) is learn how to bowl and NOT try to impress selectors. He learns how to bowl, he has a far bigger chance of making it into side **than banging it short pitched balls **and hoping that some selector he eventually has no power in selection (because of Mr Butt) will get impressed.
This opportunity would have given a chance to focus on learning how to bowl in environment where he doesn't have to be concerned about being watched by selector. He would have learned how to handle different pitches, different batsman, different weather, different match conditions but he has chosen to bowl on dust bowls in an attempt to get attention with** no variety, no swing and just short pitched stuff**. What has been happening in Irfan's case that he is concentrating too much on trying to Impress than trying to learn how to bowl.
Feels Soooooooo good to be right allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the timesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss :D
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you were spot on nikema....they guy turned out to be half baked and n ot as good as everyone thought........you are the true bradman of KK....