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Faisal Akram’s Big Break! ⚡- Will he make it to the XI versus South Africa Test?

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Faisal Akram’s Big Break! ⚡

28 wickets at 19 in just 4 Hanif Mohammad Trophy games earn him a maiden call-up. Will he debut vs. South Africa? 🏏💭
 
Both chacha have been awful..played all hanif trophy and not even done much i would defo play faisal as one spinner but i know that wont happen
 
Both chacha have been awful..played all hanif trophy and not even done much i would defo play faisal as one spinner but i know that wont happen
Oh ya now we will judge them in hanif trophy pak fans are funny noman and sajid made bazz ball england died with their spin and aqib back them they will be again our trump card vs sena team and rightly so and both are great spinners plus can bat i would even have them playing world t20 which will be in sri lanka spin pitches.
 
Needs to wait. Should not have even selected. Let him play first class. Do you really need to select 5 plus spinners for squad. You can easily call someone for home series if someone is injured.
 
Hasn’t played any first class cricket. This tendency of Pak to throw in young bowlers into tests with little experience has to stop. They need time to cultivate their skills and learn control over line and length. Not everyone is a Wasim or waqar.
 
Hasn’t played any first class cricket. This tendency of Pak to throw in young bowlers into tests with little experience has to stop. They need time to cultivate their skills and learn control over line and length. Not everyone is a Wasim or waqar.
The squad is going to be trimmed before the series. I suspect he will be one of those trimmed.
 
Hasn’t played any first class cricket. This tendency of Pak to throw in young bowlers into tests with little experience has to stop. They need time to cultivate their skills and learn control over line and length. Not everyone is a Wasim or waqar.
He's mainly there to learn. Will be released from the squad I suspect
 
Needs to wait. Should not have even selected. Let him play first class. Do you really need to select 5 plus spinners for squad. You can easily call someone for home series if someone is injured.
This was more like a reward for him as he finished as the 3rd highest wicket takes in Hanif Mohammed Trophy
 
Nah pak has better players of spin than south africa.
You obviously are not mr current affairs. Current Pak are terrible playing spin of any kind let alone maharaj and his left arm spin. Only misbah sarfaraz and younis were able to dominate Herath and , the rest are sitting ducks.
 
You obviously are not mr current affairs. Current Pak are terrible playing spin of any kind let alone maharaj and his left arm spin. Only misbah sarfaraz and younis were able to dominate Herath and , the rest are sitting ducks.
Look i am not sure you have seen kamran and saud bat vs spin these guys got 100 vs england on turning tracks better to watch pakistan cricket it will help you
 
Oh ya now we will judge them in hanif trophy pak fans are funny noman and sajid made bazz ball england died with their spin and aqib back them they will be again our trump card vs sena team and rightly so and both are great spinners plus can bat i would even have them playing world t20 which will be in sri lanka spin pitches.
Sajjad khan is better bat than abdullah shafique and babar azam on these type of pitches....
 
Look i am not sure you have seen kamran and saud bat vs spin these guys got 100 vs england on turning tracks better to watch pakistan cricket it will help you
Bro I’ve been watching these guys since the 80’s. I can tell you the current lot are hopeless. I know Saud and Ghulam got runs against England but Sajid Bashir and maharaj are completely different propositions. For one the spin strategy took England completely by surprise. They turned up with mostly Seamers. West Indies didn’t make that mistake and won. (The 2nd test but the writing was on the wall in the first test) South are coming with two world class Lefties for exactly that reason. The whole world except you know Paks weakness against left arm spin.

You need to tone it down with the Hubris. This series won’t be a walk in the park. South Africa are better players of spin and subcontinental conditions than you think.
 
Bro I’ve been watching these guys since the 80’s. I can tell you the current lot are hopeless. I know Saud and Ghulam got runs against England but Sajid Bashir and maharaj are completely different propositions. For one the spin strategy took England completely by surprise. They turned up with mostly Seamers. West Indies didn’t make that mistake and won. (The 2nd test but the writing was on the wall in the first test) South are coming with two world class Lefties for exactly that reason. The whole world except you know Paks weakness against left arm spin.

You need to tone it down with the Hubris. This series won’t be a walk in the park. South Africa are better players of spin and subcontinental conditions than you think.
Look i know what i am watching pakistan smashed better south african team in pakistan last time hassan ali was toying with them so good luck even crossing 100 vs sajid and noman pakistan just need above 150 game will be over for south africa and don't forget sajid and noman are decent batsmen as well
 
Ideally, it should be between Asif Afridi and him for the 3rd spinner spot, but Abrar will be selected

Abrar has flopped already in Test cricket, but as usual mixing of formats means he'll get the nod
 
Ideally, it should be between Asif Afridi and him for the 3rd spinner spot, but Abrar will be selected

Abrar has flopped already in Test cricket, but as usual mixing of formats means he'll get the nod
Abrar is rubbish but he's still far better bowler than Faisal Akram who bowls a full toss every over.
 
Needs to wait. Should not have even selected. Let him play first class. Do you really need to select 5 plus spinners for squad. You can easily call someone for home series if someone is injured.
The squad will be trimmed before the first test.
 
Abrar is rubbish but he's still far better bowler than Faisal Akram who bowls a full toss every over.
If Faisal Akram is bowling full tosses and getting wickets - what's the issue?

Abrar is not getting wickets bowling full tosses or no full tosses, so he has should be benched.
 
Against England wasn't the third spinner Zahid Mehmood ? And how many overs did he get ?

Sajid and Noman with Salman as a backup is enough spin. Faisal Akram should play FC cricket.
 
If Faisal Akram is bowling full tosses and getting wickets - what's the issue?

Abrar is not getting wickets bowling full tosses or no full tosses, so he has should be benched.
Yeah bowling to larkana in hanif Mohammed trophy is the same as international. He's a rubbish bowler who is going at nearly 5 in FC cricket. What hope has he got in internationals? I thought you would have learnt your lesson when talking up Salman agha. We all saw how that went.
 
Against England wasn't the third spinner Zahid Mehmood ? And how many overs did he get ?

Sajid and Noman with Salman as a backup is enough spin. Faisal Akram should play FC cricket.
Agreed there is no need for him. He's going at 4.6 and over in FC cricket. There is no need for abrar either tbh. I would have had saim instead of Abdullah too.
 
Yeah bowling to larkana in hanif Mohammed trophy is the same as international. He's a rubbish bowler who is going at nearly 5 in FC cricket. What hope has he got in internationals? I thought you would have learnt your lesson when talking up Salman agha. We all saw how that went.
Should I trust a random poster on pakpassion or his current form of picking up wkts - whether he is rubbish or not?

Geez, that's a really tough choice!
 
Against England wasn't the third spinner Zahid Mehmood ? And how many overs did he get ?

Sajid and Noman with Salman as a backup is enough spin. Faisal Akram should play FC cricket.
Bro sajid and noman going to have another fantastic series and their runs will be handy as well down the order really excited to watch these 2 guys dominate spin bowling in pakistan.
 
Should I trust a random poster on pakpassion or his current form of picking up wkts - whether he is rubbish or not?

Geez, that's a really tough choice!
Clearly you thinking he's better than abrar who has as many wickets in tests with lesser economy than Faisal Akram has in FC which is below QEA. You might as well take someone else's word since you don't know much about cricket.

It's nice that you ignored his pathetic economy in FC. The guy is going at odi economy in FC but yet he will do better than abrar (I don't rate him).
 
Should I trust a random poster on pakpassion or his current form of picking up wkts - whether he is rubbish or not?

Geez, that's a really tough choice!
You are trying to make it seem like @khyberlion is giving his opinion based on his feelings, which isn't true. He mentioned the economy rate, which indicates that Faisal Akram lacks control. Faisal is only 22 and can improve, but maybe he is not ready yet and should play more first class matches.
 
Against England wasn't the third spinner Zahid Mehmood ? And how many overs did he get ?

Sajid and Noman with Salman as a backup is enough spin. Faisal Akram should play FC cricket.
Zahid simply releases pressure with the odd loose ball. Heck even Kaneria was loose in the 2010 series and rightly discarded. Abrar is a strange case. He’s generally been tested on Multan or Pindi wicket last year that did absolutely nothing for anybody. Then he got sick and just played LOI which plays havoc with line and length.

I guess as a third spinner we will just have to wait and see. There is absolutely no space for Faisal in this playing 11. he has such a long way to go as a bowler. Absolutely has no control (from what we saw last year) so must learn that in First class.

Actually we all remember Yasir shah was always around the team between 2011-2015 before finally making his debut. Once he was in the team we could all see he had wonderful control but absolutely no top spinner or wrongun.

Faisal must develop control and then variety to be a real contender at this level.
 
Clearly you thinking he's better than abrar who has as many wickets in tests with lesser economy than Faisal Akram has in FC which is below QEA. You might as well take someone else's word since you don't know much about cricket.

It's nice that you ignored his pathetic economy in FC. The guy is going at odi economy in FC but yet he will do better than abrar (I don't rate him).
You are trying to make it seem like @khyberlion is giving his opinion based on his feelings, which isn't true. He mentioned the economy rate, which indicates that Faisal Akram lacks control. Faisal is only 22 and can improve, but maybe he is not ready yet and should play more first class matches.
He had an economy of 3.75 in the recently concluded Hanif trophy

Also, econ. rate doesn't necessarily tell you that he bowls full tosses either!

It could simply mean that he is flighting the ball more and is more prone to getting hit, hence why he picked up wkts successfully in the recently concluded FC tournament

No point of Abrar being economical, if he can't take wkts which we have seen in Test cricket
 
He had an economy of 3.75 in the recently concluded Hanif trophy

Also, econ. rate doesn't necessarily tell you that he bowls full tosses either!

It could simply mean that he is flighting the ball more and is more prone to getting hit, hence why he picked up wkts successfully in the recently concluded FC tournament

No point of Abrar being economical, if he can't take wkts which we have seen in Test cricket
Sajid noman and abrar in tandem in spinning pitches are your match winners simple as that faisal has to wait for his chance he will learn alot from noman and sajid.
 
Sajid noman and abrar in tandem in spinning pitches are your match winners simple as that faisal has to wait for his chance he will learn alot from noman and sajid.
Abrar has been a massive failure already, so playing him again would be repeating the same mistake again

You play Asif Afridi or like you said give a young spinner like Faisal a chance and let him learn from the experienced duo

Abrar should definitely not be selected again based on his T20 exploits
 
Abrar has been a massive failure already, so playing him again would be repeating the same mistake again

You play Asif Afridi or like you said give a young spinner like Faisal a chance and let him learn from the experienced duo

Abrar should definitely not be selected again based on his T20 exploits
Look abrar has performed in first class he has earned his place and with sajid and noman doing majority of work you have asif afridi who is coming from a really good first class form so it is a selection headache who you go with
 
Look abrar has performed in first class he has earned his place and with sajid and noman doing majority of work you have asif afridi who is coming from a really good first class form so it is a selection headache who you go with
We've already seen him trying to get wkts by using his variations, but it hasn't worked and he doesn't know the art of picking up wickets in Test cricket

Already drew the Test series against WI and can't repeat the same mistake again

Play Asif Afridi or Faisal
 
We've already seen him trying to get wkts by using his variations, but it hasn't worked and he doesn't know the art of picking up wickets in Test cricket

Already drew the Test series against WI and can't repeat the same mistake again

Play Asif Afridi or Faisal
Well then asif afridi would be great choice heard he can bat as well.
 
Yes, he can bat as well and is in great form, plus is experienced

Use him to win this series and wait for other spinners to come through or gain more experience
Ya then pak has really good lower order sajid noman and asif all can bat their runs down the order will be massive in these spinning pitches.
 
He had an economy of 3.75 in the recently concluded Hanif trophy

Also, econ. rate doesn't necessarily tell you that he bowls full tosses either!

It could simply mean that he is flighting the ball more and is more prone to getting hit, hence why he picked up wkts successfully in the recently concluded FC tournament

No point of Abrar being economical, if he can't take wkts which we have seen in Test cricket
Abrar has 46 wickets in 10 tests someone who can't pick wickets but Faisal Akram who can pick wickets has 47 in 10 FC games lol. Great logic. Faisal will be going at over 5 economy in tests once picked you can bookmark this post.
 
You are trying to make it seem like @khyberlion is giving his opinion based on his feelings, which isn't true. He mentioned the economy rate, which indicates that Faisal Akram lacks control. Faisal is only 22 and can improve, but maybe he is not ready yet and should play more first class matches.
I have seen Faisal bowl on many occasions he lacks control. Nearly going at 5 in Pakistan FC means you will be hopeless in internationals.
 
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