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Abid Ali becomes the first batsman ever to hit a hundred on both ODI and Test debut

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Phenomenal achievement.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Abid Ali has become the first batsman in the history of cricket to score a century on ODI debut and a century on Test debut (pictures courtesy Getty and PCB) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/nHROnhAVeY">pic.twitter.com/nHROnhAVeY</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1206165350561263616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Well done, excellent inns. Hopefully more 100s to come.
 
Awesome achievement
Well done to the lad.
Will score plenty of runs in the subcon as he has the right mentality.
Don't think he will do well away, but really hope he can prove me wrong.
 
Class.

How anyone can pick Shan and Imam over him is beyond me.
 
He has the hunger to succeed.

Brilliant batting.

So proud of him.
 
But but he is 32.

Like we have young Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes waiting in the wings.
 
Well done Abid, tremendeous record this :)
 
Now he just needs to hit a century when he makes his t20 debut 😀 Great achievement by abid Ali so far
 
Looked good, solid, seems to know which are his reliable shots.

Very impressed with him.
 
Saj said:
Looked good, solid, seems to know which are his reliable shots.

Very impressed with him.
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Looks like a proper tesr batsmen, compact, patient and shows discapline.
 
Love his batting.

So refreshing. The shots he plays are awesome.

Just need to get rid of Shan Masood and bring in Sami Aslam.
 
Watching the match for him, Babar and Haris.

Remeber the time when i said that this guy is the by far the best opener in Pakistan as evident from the fact that he scored many runs for Islamabad on bowler's friendly wickets.
 
Him, Babar and Harris are three batsmen Pakistani management can be proud of producing in recent times. All three are quality players.
 
Markhor said:
Class.

How anyone can pick Shan and Imam over him is beyond me.
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Let's ask [MENTION=141390]Ellipsism[/MENTION].

Like I said, Abid should open with Fakhar in ODIs for the time being, until/if Sharjeel gains form. Imam can stay backup in ODIs for now.

In Tests, open with Abid & Shan with Sami as back-up.
 
Square Drive said:
Let's ask [MENTION=141390]Ellipsism[/MENTION].

Like I said, Abid should open with Fakhar in ODIs for the time being, until/if Sharjeel gains form. Imam can stay backup in ODIs for now.

In Tests, open with Abid & Shan with Sami as back-up.
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I agree Abid should open over Imam in ODIs, but I do not think that is going to happen.
 
Great start to his career. Well done.

Those ppers still denying his effort are the ones who like the so called stylish Masood and Imam and enjoy there mediocre 30s and 0s.
 
Just saw his profile, he is 32 years old.
What the hell selectors doing all these years
 
Wow. Good achievement. Good luck to him for the future. Now we need to replace Shan.
 
Markhor said:
But but he is 32.

Like we have young Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes waiting in the wings.
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I'm not sure about his past domestic records, but it could mean that promising young players are not being given an opportunity at the right time whilst passengers, TTF's and failing seniors are retained series after series.

Just think, it if wasn't for Misbah retiring, even the likes of Babar would still be blocked out from the side in favour of sainted seniors and friends.
 
Mercurial said:
Wow. Good achievement. Good luck to him for the future. Now we need to replace Shan.
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From the current squad, I think it would be best to open with Abid and Azhar and replace Shan Masood with Fawad Alam which will strengthen our middle order.
 
King_Kohli said:
Just saw his profile, he is 32 years old.
What the hell selectors doing all these years
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Truly bizarre.

Especially when you consider the amount of different players we have tested as openers.
 
Manager101 said:
From the current squad, I think it would be best to open with Abid and Azhar and replace Shan Masood with Fawad Alam which will strengthen our middle order.
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Fawad can open, he opened before on his test debut but I reckon optimum performance from him will come at no. 5 which means Haris gets a boot which I think he deserves seeing as he didn’t get in the team based on merit.
 
Great achievement. Him and imam will make a good odi opening pair. In tests pakistan need to find a second opener.
 
I blame Abid for not having an uncle or some other sifarish in PCB, could have debut 10 years ago, could have scored 5 K test runs by now. Poor on him, not impressed on this perspective, very impressive batsman otherwise.
 
Manager101 said:
From the current squad, I think it would be best to open with Abid and Azhar and replace Shan Masood with Fawad Alam which will strengthen our middle order.
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After performance in Australia and SA, Shaan needs to be persisted with , useless Harris Sohail should make way for Fawad.
 
Mickey didn't really want to pick him as he didn't feel he was fit enough for international cricket.

Abid looks like he has shed quite a few kilos in the last 12 months.
 
Saj said:
Mickey didn't really want to pick him as he didn't feel he was fit enough for international cricket.

Abid looks like he has shed quite a few kilos in the last 12 months.
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It's says alot for Domestic cricket and the players motivation if he has to be forced to shed the kgs. Didn't Abid have the intelligence to see that he was overweight?
 
Congratulations to him for this record.

Otherwise I am not that impressed by his batting. I can't see him doing well in the long run. So the best he can do in my opinion is to play well for next 1/2 seaso' until we find a real opener.
 
Bewal Express said:
It's says alot for Domestic cricket and the players motivation if he has to be forced to shed the kgs. Didn't Abid have the intelligence to see that he was overweight?
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He was fine. Mickey didn't like him.

Check his video from the odi debut where he scored a century. Was even fitter.

But Mickey wanted him dropped and preferred Malik over him for the world cup that immediately followed.
 
Video of ton.

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Rayyman said:
Don’t like him, but he is an okay batsman. Well played.
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typical pakistani unhappy and depressed mentality of 'liking', 'tribalism' and 'ethinicity' and 'grouping'.

With all due respect, he just scored a century. Learn to appreciate for a change.
 
khan_aa said:
typical pakistani unhappy and depressed mentality of 'liking', 'tribalism' and 'ethinicity' and 'grouping'.

With all due respect, he just scored a century. Learn to appreciate for a change.
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He's not that good.
Scored a century? Bravo well done but against what attack?
Against the aussies in Aus?
He scored 0 in the warm up match.

He can score all he wants at home but away he'll get destroyed
 
KingT said:
He's not that good.
Scored a century? Bravo well done but against what attack?
Against the aussies in Aus?
He scored 0 in the warm up match.

He can score all he wants at home but away he'll get destroyed
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You dont know that yet.
He may fail.
He may do better than Steve Smith.

Can you predict the future?

Currently he has had one chance, he took full advantage of it while other openers could not.

Secondly, I do not think you are in a position to say 'he's not that good', unless you are more experienced and successful than Abid Ali at the international level - which I doubt.

Again, this is typical of negative pakistani mindset - when someone does well, instead of appreciating the effort, bring him down.
:sendoff:sendoff:sendoff
 
khan_aa said:
typical pakistani unhappy and depressed mentality of 'liking', 'tribalism' and 'ethinicity' and 'grouping'.

With all due respect, he just scored a century. Learn to appreciate for a change.
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I agree, some people are really creative, find a way to say something negative, always. Guy created history , deserves better response.
 
khan_aa said:
You dont know that yet.
He may fail.
He may do better than Steve Smith.

Can you predict the future?

Currently he has had one chance, he took full advantage of it while other openers could not.

Secondly, I do not think you are in a position to say 'he's not that good', unless you are more experienced and successful than Abid Ali at the international level - which I doubt.

Again, this is typical of negative pakistani mindset - when someone does well, instead of appreciating the effort, bring him down.
:sendoff:sendoff:sendoff
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I just said bravo well done lol

But you'll see what I mean.
The same people who are rating so highly will be the ones who'll throw him on the ground.
Just wait
 
Abid should be given a long run in tests, he has the FC experience, decent technique and enough scoring areas and we dont have many high class opening options available. Need to find a decent and young 2nd opener and then stick with the pair and develop them. In next 3-4 years when Abid will be close to the end of his career then we will have an experienced opener of around 27-28 years of age if we select one of Sami Aslam, Imran Butt or Imam to pair with Abid now.
 
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KingT said:
I just said bravo well done lol

But you'll see what I mean.
The same people who are rating so highly will be the ones who'll throw him on the ground.
Just wait
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Go read your own post, you predicted that he will fail, which is negative mindset.

You don't have any basis to say that.

At this time, you can judge him with a sample size of 1, and he is 100%.

Secondly, Pakistan did quite well against Aus A with Imran khan getting 5 wickets. Look what happened in the real game. Don't twist and turn facts haphazardly to make a wrong point.

Abid Ali is a decent enough batsman and knows how to pace innings. Batting at SR of 50 is exactly what you need in test cricket. Even 30-40 is good because it tires the bowlers. Infact, Babar Azam needs to slow it down a little.
 
khan_aa said:
Go read your own post, you predicted that he will fail, which is negative mindset.

You don't have any basis to say that.

At this time, you can judge him with a sample size of 1, and he is 100%.

Secondly, Pakistan did quite well against Aus A with Imran khan getting 5 wickets. Look what happened in the real game. Don't twist and turn facts haphazardly to make a wrong point.

Abid Ali is a decent enough batsman and knows how to pace innings. Batting at SR of 50 is exactly what you need in test cricket. Even 30-40 is good because it tires the bowlers. Infact, Babar Azam needs to slow it down a little.
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I never said anything about his strike rate.
I'm predicting that he won't succeed in Eng and I think I'm allowed to do that on this forum

Also regarding Babar, he had only a few overs to get to his hundred so he had to play fast or the light would have caused the game to end early.
He played and paced his innings well in Aus
 
Guys just like shay hope he should be keeping and opening in onedays too thats the way forward for us
 
Shazzam said:
Well played. Don’t like him either. Looks limited.
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So who do you want instead ? Ahmed Shehzad, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood and Sami Aslam aren't exactly the free flowing successors to Saeed Anwar.
 
Shazzam said:
Runs against Sri-Lanka should not count.
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Runs against Pakistan shouldn't count given the tripe we serve up every game.

At least Sri Lanka have beaten South Africa away and drew at home to New Zealand which is more than can be said of our lot.
 
Markhor said:
So who do you want instead ? Ahmed Shehzad, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood and Sami Aslam aren't exactly the free flowing successors to Saeed Anwar.
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They should give Shehzad another go. Test cricket suits his playstyle.
 
Shazzam said:
They should give Shehzad another go. Test cricket suits his playstyle.
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He was averaging 23 in 6 matches of the QEA Trophy, then made twin tons in the last match which was a draw on a dead pitch where 7 other batsmen made hundreds. Not exactly in great form.
 
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Rana said:
Him, Babar and Harris are three batsmen Pakistani management can be proud of producing in recent times. All three are quality players.
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We all saw Harris's quality in Australia a few weeks ago.
 
Fantastic achievement.

He has toiled in FC cricket for a while and gets his reward finally.
 
Good for him
If he done a Shaan He would have been dropped for the next test.
Unfortunately hard working players like Abid Ali+Ayub Dogar who toiled on the domestic scene for years only get a few chances
 
Good player. Bats at a good Strike rate. Can't believe Jaahid Ali was picked in the PSL but Abid wasn't. Makes you think.
 
Today I remembered Inzamam the chief selector the most, how he became a firewall infront of domestic performers, just to protect Hafeez, Malik and Imam. So many players were destroyed.
Abid Ali used to average in the 50s from 2012 to 2016, and 2017. Even in the most ruthless of system he should've played for Pakistan by 2015/6 like Fawad Alam.
He was sidelined for 4 more years for Shehzads and nephew Imam.
He finally got his 4 years delayed debut at the age of 32.
MAde a century but what other choice did he have? He was competing against 2 openers with average in the 20s related to well-connected people. The Imams and Shans have everything apart from batting skills and Abid Ali has nothing apart from his cricketing skills.

You need more than determination you need to be a madman and have strong self-belief, fitness and faith that you will persevere. The guy has superb back foot technique but extremely humble who believes only his bat needs to talk.

Nobody watches Pakistan team anymore as people are fed up of club level players like Imam and other repeated failures like Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali, who are given opportunity over most promising players.

Happy for him hope he can serve Pakistan cricket for sometime as he does'nt have many years left thanks to this PCB mafia and Inzamam. One other player I really feel sad is Asif Zakir, who was selected and then dropped from the bench like many before him by chief selector Inzamam. No mediaperson ever asked him or team management why did they do this. Not many had the luck or resolve of Abid Ali
 
A bit of credit to the Chief Selector perhaps in giving Abid a chance in Test cricket.
 
Square Drive said:
Let's ask [MENTION=141390]Ellipsism[/MENTION].

Like I said, Abid should open with Fakhar in ODIs for the time being, until/if Sharjeel gains form. Imam can stay backup in ODIs for now.

In Tests, open with Abid & Shan with Sami as back-up.
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Imam has been our second best ODI batsman since his debut, and unlike the rest of our timid and meek bunch he ain’t afraid of a contest and stands up in pressure situations. He’s earned his place in the OD line up and is one of the first names on the team sheet. Abid is his back up.
 
Rayyman said:
Don’t like him, but he is an okay batsman. Well played.
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Like someone already said 'do we have younger Greenidge and Haynes waiting for their turns or something'...what is there to like/dislike, the guy scored a 100 on debut, in the two formats he was 'allowed to play' (dropped right after scoring a 100 and not allowed another game for over a year now I think), what else a fan can ask for?


Maybe he should have taken all 10 Lankan wickets as well?
 
His ODI century was a bit surprising, as his game doesn’t suit that format, but after watching pre lunch session, I actually wrote that he might get a debut Test hundred against that attack, on that track. Very good Test prospect, should have been playing over 60 (for PAK 30) Tests by now. He can be a solid Test opener for next 5 years if he retires from ODI now and from T20 in every level.
 
Ever since he scored his century in ODI debut, been screaming for his selection. Actually has a brain and can turn it on in the limited formats as well. Drop Shan forever. Horrendous player.
 
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