We already know..that Shadab is in pathetic form, bowling full tosses…he should be out of playng 11, as soon as possible..if Pak even wants to progress, in the world cup…
Well if England are to be finalists, they've not made a very good start at all.
Pakistan stands a great chance of winning? Since when?
Bro, have you had any thought that the team will win the Champions Trophy of 2017? I bet you didn't. I am just thinking about that right now. This team is very unpredictable and can do anything out of the box especially when nobody is believing in them.
. But I'm being honest and not lying, my entire family watched the ct with me and I was the only one who believed in Pakistan. Lol, I didn't think they would 100% win but I knew they weren't likely completly out of it.
in that period.
Good for you and I trust you that you must have thought about us winning. I want you to keep the same thought going here as well, maybe you are lucky for Team Pakistan.Yes I did ironically, I just didn't exist on pakpassion at that time
My judgment of 2017 was based of these reasons.
A) Rankings don't matter in a cup.
B) Sarfraz at this time had a 100% win record in t20 while captaining and he was also a psl winner + 2006 under 19 winner so he knew how to lead well.
C) the introduction of Babar at 3, Hafeez at 4 amd sarfraz's insistence of playing imad waseem and Amir, Imad who was with sarfi during under 19 and Amir who sarfi admired. Lastly sarfi's insistence on having fakhar who was in the form of his life during that game.
Only weak link was shehzad but sarfi isn't brainless like misbah or babar and I knew he would drop shehzad in a heartbeat considering his 2006 track record.
2017 Pakistan didn't have the strongest team but they had a good team, Azhar Ali unlike imam who goes on his merry way actually strikes and kept pace with fakhar, he made sure fakhar wasn't the only one striking and he didn't let RR drop.
Hafeez was gun at no 4 and in terms of being an allrounder he was far superior to any nonsense we are carrying with sheddy or nawaz.
Amir and hasan were in the form of their lives and were known for delivering well in tournaments with Amir and hasan delivering in psl. Malik was also in form and imad in 2016 went not out and scored multiple 50's against England and his bowling was
The 2017 team had zero out of form players, zero bad players( Excluding shehzad), and everyone played in their batting no + a captain who was attacking, rotated bowlers and set the field very well. Sarfi wasn't a fluke captain, he's won multiple tournaments before.
2023 team has out of form players, players batting out of position and a clueless captain lol.
You are 100% correct about 2017, I didn't think we'd win, but I didn't exactly lose all hope, I thought pakistan wouldn't do as badly as people thought they would since people thought we'd flunk each match. Once we reached semi's I knew we'd win both semi and final, the team spirit was just too high at the time.
Problem is babar can't ever create that team spirit, I've seen how babar and friends 11 in finals, their hopeless.
Also BTW 2017 team crushes our wc 2023 team, easily. The middle order of haris sohail, Imad waseem, Sarfraz, Hafeez and malik crushes the middle order of rizwan, Saud, chacha, Shadab and nawaz. Only saud is a contender, rizzu is not a better non4 then hafeez, the less are hilarious.
Another thing 2017 had a better spin unit, a more inform hasan Ali as well. Azhar is also > Imam. Imam has higher stats because he just keeps nudging away for easy singles and is the definition of soft runs. Azhar doesn't perform as much but he kept pace with fakhar, and wasn't slow during that cup, he struck well.
Had Australia taken that Kohli catch then things could have been different for India. But still, credit goes to Kohli and Rahul for the way they kept going strong and took no pressure.
Had Rohit not dropped Zampa at 168/8(they went on to make 21 runs until next wicket) , Australia may have made just 175. That would have made the entire Australian bowling innings irrelevant to be honest.
Abdulla shafeeq got dropped today and scored century. would PAK have lost the match? He still played well to score a century. ifs and buts are meaningless in sports.
bro check my last response as well. Batsman still has to convert the chances into big scores which virat kohli did as well as Abdullah. Abdullah scored a century while Virat scored 80+.
Haider Ali just one example ?
This is a wrong analysis in my opinion. Players don't need to be kept away from any form of cricket. Instead, players need to be given the environment to succeed in all forms of cricket. David Warner became a Test player after he shone in T20 cricket. He made his FC debut 2 years after he debuted in T20 cricket. The problem in Pakistan is that cricket isn't an elite sport. It's played by cricketers who are barely matriculation pass and with the substandard quality of education, they do not get to develop IQ. They don't have the intelligence (both in batting and bowling) to transition themselves between various formats and develop match awareness. The solution to this is not less cricket for such players but more cricket. In all formats.
Bazid is one of the few sane voices we have regardless of how monotonous he sounds.
Yes.
Considering we got 2nd place last time, it doesn’t seem that crazy of a call.
That was T20's.
Oh sorry I glossed over the post and thought this was about the upcoming T20 WC.
I agree with Bazid's squad. He and I think alike.
So there is no place for Farhan, Usama Mir, Haseeb. I think haris in squad makes more sense than haseeb so he is right there. Usama is going to make it if he has some good games in next series. Farhan's non-selection is injustice.
