Titan24
Senior Test Player
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2016
- Runs
- 25,094
- Post of the Week
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Yes his first class record is not amazing rather its poor. It takes some of the players time to realize what are their strenghths and how can they create an impact to make their team win matches.
He has realized that, not only his PSL impact but after that even in the domestic ODI tournument he was amazing. He now knows what are his strengths and what is his role which he can play.
How is he a gem? In Pakistan cricket team's scenario I will stretch my neck out a bit and say he can be diamond for us. The reason I am saying that since last 10-15 years we haven't had a finisher in our team, Razzaq was the closest one we have. We were playing world cup 2015 with Afridi playing at 5 down and was supposed to finish matches for us. Finishing matches is not about hitting couple if sixes, it requires game sense, match awareness and realizing how much risk is needed to be taken at each stage of the game. I think Asif Ali has got these attributes, some of them might need bit of polishing, but if he spends an year in Pak team he will surely gonna be polished.
He is a gem for the cricketing world as he is one of the cleanest striker of a cricket ball I have seen in recent times not only a striker but knows how to settle himself in and when to take the risk. He surely needs to work hard and improve his range of strokes but, he is a modern day cricketer and one to look out for. He can change the dimension of a limited overs game in few balls.
There might be matches he wont score much but its about realizing what he can do then what he cant. I know Mickey, Inzi and Sarfaraz has picked him for future and he is not gonna be discarded anytime soon unless there is an extreme situation.
He has realized that, not only his PSL impact but after that even in the domestic ODI tournument he was amazing. He now knows what are his strengths and what is his role which he can play.
How is he a gem? In Pakistan cricket team's scenario I will stretch my neck out a bit and say he can be diamond for us. The reason I am saying that since last 10-15 years we haven't had a finisher in our team, Razzaq was the closest one we have. We were playing world cup 2015 with Afridi playing at 5 down and was supposed to finish matches for us. Finishing matches is not about hitting couple if sixes, it requires game sense, match awareness and realizing how much risk is needed to be taken at each stage of the game. I think Asif Ali has got these attributes, some of them might need bit of polishing, but if he spends an year in Pak team he will surely gonna be polished.
He is a gem for the cricketing world as he is one of the cleanest striker of a cricket ball I have seen in recent times not only a striker but knows how to settle himself in and when to take the risk. He surely needs to work hard and improve his range of strokes but, he is a modern day cricketer and one to look out for. He can change the dimension of a limited overs game in few balls.
There might be matches he wont score much but its about realizing what he can do then what he cant. I know Mickey, Inzi and Sarfaraz has picked him for future and he is not gonna be discarded anytime soon unless there is an extreme situation.

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