Re: Umar Akmal's Batting Position
There is a reason Im saying from ages that Misbah's captaincy in ODI has been below par
Umar at 6 are u kidding me
Farhat and Malik the biggest parchis are playing under Misbah
Re: Umar Akmal's Batting Position
There is a reason Im saying from ages that Misbah's captaincy in ODI has been below par
Umar at 6 are u kidding me
Farhat and Malik the biggest parchis are playing under Misbah
The reason is that you want him replaced by you know who. :D
Re: Umar Akmal's Batting Position
The reason is that you want him replaced by you know who. :D
Yes Younis Khan should be the captain :D
Re: Umar Akmal's Batting Position
While everyone else is failing Umer Akmal is scoring some runs atleast. He should definatley be played higher up the order. He may not be Asif Iqbal / Michale Bevan or Ponting/Lara but he certainly is a good enough batsman to go much higher than the #6 spot he is aloted at right now. Hafeez & Farhat will both be technically inedequate in foreign conditions. Our whole batting line up needs a shake down just like the Indian batting line up. Bring young blood in if the same old faces keep failing over & over again.
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He should bat at no4
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While everyone else is failing Umer Akmal is scoring some runs atleast. He should definatley be played higher up the order. He may not be Asif Iqbal / Michale Bevan or Ponting/Lara but he certainly is a good enough batsman to go much higher than the #6 spot he is aloted at right now. Hafeez & Farhat will both be technically inedequate in foreign conditions. Our whole batting line up needs a shake down just like the Indian batting line up. Bring young blood in if the same old faces keep failing over & over again.
Absolutely! and not only Hafeez and Farhat but also YK and Misbah dont deserve to be in the team in ODI and T20's.
Lets compare on how Eng are treating Kevin pieterson’s lack of form, they know that they are playing on batting friendly conditions of UAE and they have Kieswetter in the squad who opens for Eng and has done that quite successfully, but they are using the easy batting conditions of UAE and letting KP get to regain his form, confidence. The difference in both cases is that KP had a coach and captain who is interested in making KP a successful performer for his team, UA is not lucky enough. AS UA got dropped for the tests against SA in UAE, where it was said that he is out of form and is low on confidence and then later he was not given opportunity in NZ either, where he could have gotten back in form, and then again against ZIM,SL,BD and Eng test series.
and here we are now, as I had said, Eng were using the batting friendly conditions to bring KP back to form, and now he is back in form and will be serving eng cricket for good and UA was deprived of any chance to regain his confidence and form in above underlined golden opportunities. Thank You Misbah and Mohsin Khan!
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Absolutely! and not only Hafeez and Farhat but also YK and Misbah dont deserve to be in the team in ODI and T20's.
I understand about YK not being ODI/T20 material but Hafeez and Misbah too?? Farhat shouldn't be in any team but to his luck his susar happens to always land on one of selection positions.
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and here we are now, as I had said, Eng were using the batting friendly conditions to bring KP back to form, and now he is back in form and will be serving eng cricket for good and UA was deprived of any chance to regain his confidence and form in above underlined golden opportunities. Thank You Misbah and Mohsin Khan!
One good innings does not mean he has become world beater again. Lets see how he performs in the next few matches, if he performs well than yes, otherwise the way he has been playing recently it will be a flash in the pan.
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I understand about YK not being ODI/T20 material but Hafeez and Misbah too?? Farhat shouldn't be in any team but to his luck his susar happens to always land on one of selection positions.
The thing about Hafeez is that he don't have the technique and mental toughness to survive (consistently) against Tier one teams (in my opinion, AUS, SA/ENG) in tough situations and good bowling attack, He looks as good as anyone against BD,SL,Zim, Eng and perhaps even NZ but even against these teams he needs to have non challenging batting conditions to do well. Take this series for example, he is first time up against a challenging bowler in Finn and he seems totally out of sorts, where as he scored runs after runs against NZ,SL,ZIM,BD.
Thats my opinion and you could have a different opinion, I would personally take a young opening batsman and groom him so that he can take on all international sides and not just SL,BD,Zim,NZ and india. and we do have some good young batsman that are not given constant chances in Sharjeel Khan, Awais zia (he seems very T20 specialist, but so did anwar for first 3 years on his career), azeem ghuman, Nasir Jamshed, Umar Amin, ahmed Shahzad and that guy Usman (cant remember his last name, he was taken to WI last year). But Pak cricket administrations either dont pick these guys regularly enough, and even when they do, the men in-charge on tour like captain and coach dont provide them with regular opportunities.
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One good innings does not mean he has become world beater again. Lets see how he performs in the next few matches, if he performs well than yes, otherwise the way he has been playing recently it will be a flash in the pan.
absolutely, one has to perform constantly - and my beef is that in the underlined opportunities I posted above he was not and still is not been provided with right batting positions to play up to his potential. Would you agree or disagree with that?
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absolutely, one has to perform constantly - and my beef is that in the underlined opportunities I posted above he was not and still is not been provided with right batting positions to play up to his potential. Would you agree or disagree with that?
I was talking about KP not UA. As for batting positions UA had ample opportunities in the last two matches to show his flair. In the first ODI he fluffed the chance and in the second one he played brilliantly but could not finish the job. Yes he should come higher in batting position, to see if he can do justice to his talent. No one is responsible for his current predicament apart from UA himself. If he had applied himself when he was given the chance instead of playing silly shots and getting out than it would have been a different story. As I have always said he has talent but putting that to good and valuable use for the team has been sorely lacking.
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The thing about Hafeez is that he don't have the technique and mental toughness to survive (consistently) against Tier one teams (in my opinion, AUS, SA/ENG) in tough situations and good bowling attack, He looks as good as anyone against BD,SL,Zim, Eng and perhaps even NZ but even against these teams he needs to have non challenging batting conditions to do well. Take this series for example,** he is first time up against a challenging bowler in Finn **and he seems totally out of sorts, where as he scored runs after runs against NZ,SL,ZIM,BD.
What about South Africa? Do you consider SA bowlers as 'challenging' or are they okay bowlers? Last time SA visited UAE against Pakistan Hafeez scored 203 runs at average of 40. Against Eng in Eng he scored at ave of 33.40.
Thats my opinion and you could have a different opinion, I would personally take a young opening batsman and groom him so that he can take on all international sides and not just SL,BD,Zim,NZ and india. and we do have some good young batsman that are not given constant chances in Sharjeel Khan, Awais zia (he seems very T20 specialist, but so did anwar for first 3 years on his career), azeem ghuman, Nasir Jamshed, Umar Amin, ahmed Shahzad and that guy Usman (cant remember his last name, he was taken to WI last year). But Pak cricket administrations either dont pick these guys regularly enough, and even when they do, the men in-charge on tour like captain and coach dont provide them with regular opportunities.
Of course I would love to see new players being given chances but problem is our PCB.
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What about South Africa? Do you consider SA bowlers as 'challenging' or are they okay bowlers? Last time SA visited UAE against Pakistan Hafeez scored 203 runs at average of 40. Against Eng in Eng he scored at ave of 33.40.
So you think he has what it takes to perform consistently against Tier-1 teams under tough circustances - just the way other opening/top order batsman from SA/AUS/Eng perform?
PS: Aab Aaya Ounthhh Paahaarr Key Neechey :D
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I think he is a decent all-rounder to open the innings for now. May be you can tell us who is the next Lara/Tendulkar/Ponting/Saeed Anwar waiting on the benches to replace Hafeez? He is ranked 18th, Imran Farhat is ranked 17th in domestic. Players above these two are either older or tried and tested or they are middle order batsman.
aur ounth paharh pe charh gaya 
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I think he is a decent all-rounder to open the innings for now. May be you can tell us who is the next Lara/Tendulkar/Ponting/Saeed Anwar waiting on the benches to replace Hafeez? He is ranked 18th, Imran Farhat is ranked 17th in domestic. Players above these two are either older or tried and tested or they are middle order batsman.
I am still waiting for you to answer my question...:D
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So you think he has what it takes to perform consistently against Tier-1 teams under tough circustances - just the way other opening/top order batsman from SA/AUS/Eng perform?
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I did:
Then I asked you a question who would you replace Hafeez with and you didn’t answer my question 
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I think he is a decent all-rounder to open the innings for now.
O Bhai.....sedha Jawab dain...Yaahan tou Aik Waleed Bhai Kaafi they, Upar sey Aaap bhiiii?
This doesnt answer the question on if you think he has what it takes to perform consistently against Tier-1 teams under tough circustances - just the way other opening/top order batsman from SA/AUS/Eng perform?
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I was talking about KP not UA. As for batting positions UA had ample opportunities in the last two matches to show his flair. In the first ODI he fluffed the chance and in the second one he played brilliantly but could not finish the job. Yes he should come higher in batting position, to see if he can do justice to his talent. No one is responsible for his current predicament apart from UA himself. If he had applied himself when he was given the chance instead of playing silly shots and getting out than it would have been a different story. As I have always said he has talent but putting that to good and valuable use for the team has been sorely lacking.
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29.6
Briggs to Umar Akmal, OUT, 89.3 kph, down the pitch, in the air, he hasn't caught this properly and **holed out to long off.** Didn't get to the pitch, still tried to lift the ball over the fence and paid the penalty, a simple chance for Dernbach coming in a couple of yards from the fence
**Umar Akmal c Dernbach b Briggs 12 (21b 1x4 0x6) SR: 57.14 **
Proves my point yet again.
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okay 
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29.6
Briggs to Umar Akmal, OUT, 89.3 kph, down the pitch, in the air, he hasn't caught this properly and **holed out to long off.** Didn't get to the pitch, still tried to lift the ball over the fence and paid the penalty, a simple chance for Dernbach coming in a couple of yards from the fence
**Umar Akmal c Dernbach b Briggs 12 (21b 1x4 0x6) SR: 57.14 **
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Ek chance Dya woh bhe dead match mein
You have to consistently give him a chance