Did Pakistan make a mistake in their team combination for the 3rd Test?

[MenInG]

A few dubious selections - likes of Hassan Ali who are clearly struggling.

And then the tail - the merits of which came to light in today's collapse. 5 players who could not bat to save their lives!

Could any of these on the bench been a better fit?

 

[sweep_shot]

I think they are one batsman short.

Tail is too long.

 

[Savak]

Hindsight is 20/20. I felt the inclusion of Nasim over Faheem was an aggressive move but Hasan Ali's poor showing with the ball rendered that move ineffective. The likes of Sajid, Nauman, Hasan can bat. They came up against high class fast bowling.

 

[Kianig89]

Should have had replaced Fawad with Masood atheist and Hasan Ali was never req

 

[Cric1234]

The batting line up is wrong Umar Akmal and Haider should be in the middle order it’s compulsory now how slow the batsmen play.

Saud should’ve debuted some time ago and Nauman should’ve been dropped after the last series now Sajid should follow suit.

Azhar
Abdullah
Babar
Saud
Umar
Haider
Rizwan

Azhar won’t retire can still open until he does otherwise much needed aggression needs to be instilled I guarantee better and more entertaining batting performances in the future from the above lineup.

For the bowling new spinners are required maybe a line up like this:

Shadab
Raza Hasan
Shaheen
Naseem/Hasan

It’s not easy to find a decent leg spinner if Shadab can average near 30 it’s enough but he needs time in domestic cricket aswell Zahid lacks control for international cricket.

 

[shamaan]

They should have dropped a spinner for Fahim Ashraf or Hassan Ali.

 

[Amjid Javed]

If you are going to pick just 5 batsmen and a keeper as your top 6 then pretty much all of those players have to be top quality batsmen. even if fahim was at 7 that would be asking for trouble.

imam and fawad are simply not good enough test batsmen, to then have them as part of 5 frontline batters is naive and stupid. we were doing the same when butt and Abid were opening.

people yapping on that sajid, hasan etc.. csn bat, sorry but not of out 5 bowlers picked are good enough to bat any higher then a number 9 spot.

i said during WI and SA series that picking 2 passengers in a weak top 5 would be exposed against better team and it has.

are two spinners are so poor there is no need for both in the side. a part timer could have done a better as a 2nd spinner.

pakistan will lose to SL, NZ and eng with same stupid selections.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Hindsight is 20/20. I felt the inclusion of Nasim over Faheem was an aggressive move but Hasan Ali's poor showing with the ball rendered that move ineffective. The likes of Sajid, Nauman, Hasan can bat. They came up against high class fast bowling.

sajid is not a test number 7 i dont know what planet you think your on to think he is. The likes of imam and fawad are no better either. we practically playing just 4 batsmen.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

The only change that could have improved this side is Faheem ahead of Hasan Ali. But it's easy to say that once the deed is done.

 

[mazkhan]

The jokers in the team are the spinners who basically add nothing to the team.

Ideally faheem for hasan ali , hasan ali has been regressing since World Cup I don't know why he hasn't been given the boot .

And shadab/nawaz and yasir for the 2 pretenders. Either way yasir should have been the main spinner .

Ifthikar should have played for fawad alam and could have used as a part time all-rounder with his offspin he is also a good batsmen and can hit big and would have strengthened lower order.

Having shadab or nawaz , faheem and yasir in the playing xi would have also strengthened our batting

 

[hitthestump]

I think the batting skills of Sajid, Hasan and Nauman make up for that missing batsman.

They just came up against a spell of fast bowling which was one notch too much for them. Even a specialist would have struggled against Starc and Cummins today.

Normally though they'd be more than enough to compensate so we shouldn't overreact. Without 5 bowlers maybe Aus would have racked up 500 instead, who knows.

 

[PakPremi]

Fahim and Kamran Ghulum should have played. KG along with Fawad could have done spin bowling as well as Nauman has done in this series, and in turn the batting would had boosted a lot.

 

[PakPremi]

To add to above Fahim in place of Hasan Ali.

 

[da_don]

faheem who bowled better than hasan ali should have been there and zahid ahead of sajid to give a leg spin option

 

[IMMY69]

Sajid Khan...
This is the third game of the series snd I haven't seen him turn a single delivery...

 

[Amjid Javed]

I think the batting skills of Sajid, Hasan and Nauman make up for that missing batsman.

They just came up against a spell of fast bowling which was one notch too much for them. Even a specialist would have struggled against Starc and Cummins today.

Normally though they'd be more than enough to compensate so we shouldn't overreact. Without 5 bowlers maybe Aus would have racked up 500 instead, who knows.

Starting a tail at 7 compensates 1 less bstsmen?

what compensates for weak top 5 containing imam and fawad?

what compensates for fact sajid, nauman and hasan have been useless all series.

There has been no need to pick 2 spinners when they offer zero control and dont take wickets.

 

[TheSultan]

It’s not team combination, it’s the personnel.

3 pacers good. Hasan Ali bring one of the 3 not so good.

2 spinners good. Same toothless spinners from the first 2 tests, definitely not good

 

[Amjid Javed]

It’s not team combination, it’s the personnel.

3 pacers good. Hasan Ali bring one of the 3 not so good.

2 spinners good. Same toothless spinners from the first 2 tests, definitely not good

So you think a top 5 with fawad and imam on non-roads is good enough?

we were picking a top 5 before with Abid / butt previously.