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14/4 in the powerplay against New Zealand in first T20I! I thought Pakistan were to become world beaters after dropping Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam
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RidiculousMan
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and Professor sahb saved Pakistan.
Though in those days the strategy of safe play from RizBar worked great.
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Keeping wickets in hand against Namibia is a great strategy to play safe?
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Thanks to Major Misbah for selecting this opening pair. Even during the first World T20, back in 2007, Pakistan didn't play this conservatively.
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In 2007, Pakistan had Imran Nazir and Salman Butt as the openers. Imran was very explosive and entertaining. Even Salman was pretty good.
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Major probably thought Misbah’s new pair are redefining T20 cricket with this approach
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Nz conditons were brutal for newbies. Not really fair to judge them for 14/4.
Hasan Nawaz blossomed in that series however.
This ba/riz myth needs to die. They are not all time greats who have poor form that you are discarding.
The only question mark should be babar due to records.
Rizwan isn't meant to be in the picture lol despite one purple patch year.
Hasan Nawaz blossomed in that series however.
This ba/riz myth needs to die. They are not all time greats who have poor form that you are discarding.
The only question mark should be babar due to records.
Rizwan isn't meant to be in the picture lol despite one purple patch year.
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Agree.
NZ is one of the toughest places to tour.
Only Aussies and South Africans dominate there. Rest of the teams generally struggle there.
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Ahmed shezad, one of our worst batters, scored a 100 there. Nz grounds are baby grounds.
Not taking anything away from the new youngster group.
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Are you mixing up formats again?
One Day and T20 are two different things. You do realise that? You can’t play at One day pace in T20.
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One day and t20 are different things.
Secondly Ahmed Shehzad is not a bad player. He has the same Umar Akmal issue however.
Talent wise he had fantastic reactions, and fantastic timing and was a terrific player of pace and spin.
His weakness however was that he was horrible at finding the gaps. Many of his sweet time shots would go straight to fielders. Rather then working on this weakeness he instead grew more and more frustrated and got out playing funky shots as a result.
Eventually he started accepting this as his weakness and stopped caring and would play endless upon endless dot balls and by tue time the rr increased he'd play a crao shot and would get out.
By 2018 he had lost fitness and his rockstar Instagram attitude resulted in poor concentration and a loss in reactions.
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Ok I accept they're the worst players to have ever represented Pakistan.
But those two are a thing of the past, now we have to talk about the players who are currently playing.
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