Are you for real man? Stokes and Fahim are superior bowlers than Pandya no matter how you look at it. Rather than sit here and spew out rubbish posts one after another, go check out Fahim's domestic cricket statistics which show he has been one of the best bowlers around in recent seasons. His batting got a big boost thanks to that massacre of Bangladesh while a few of us have seen his brutal hitting in domestic cricket aswell. He will do much better when he has a proper chance to bat, not six balls coming in on a difficult pitch. But no sane individual would say I picked Fahim Ashraf in the team for his batting rather than his bowling prowess. His batting is an asset that should be utilized at number 7 or 8.
Coming back to the point, you cannot compare the output of all-rounders based on one suit. Pandya seems a better batsman than Fahim, while Fahim seems a better bowler right now. Let them play a bit and then we can form a opinion. To mention Stokes in the same sentence as these two right now is an insult to a rare genuine all-rounder in world cricket. You have got to be trolling, your posts are just so ridiculous and daft.
I am not interested in domestic stats of our bowlers. A lot of bowlers have ATGs stats on those pitches. Hammad Azam averages 21, Rahat averages 23, Asad Ali averages 22, and a 40 year old Aizaz Cheema is running riot. We don't need to discuss the caliber of these bowlers.
The domestic stats of Pakistani pacers are meaningless. I am not saying that Fahim is a trash bowler, but my point is that his domestic stats are nothing to rely on.
You can call him as bowling all-rounder if you wish, but the fact is that he has been picked for his potential as a batsman. We have been yearning for a hard hitting all-rounder for years, and Fahim has impressed with his hitting in domestic cricket, and that is why he has been picked; he has not been picked because of his great potential as a bowler.
Pandya doesn't "seem" to be a better batsman than Fahim; he is a much, much better batsman, but yes you can flatly deny that because Fahim hasn't had much of a chance to impress with the bat, but it is only a matter of time before reality sinks in.
The only genuine all-rounder in the world is Shakib, because he gets into most teams either as a batsman or a bowler. Stokes hardly makes any team due to his bowling alone, but he is the most high impact all-rounder in the world today.
Pandya is a fantastic talent and yes he can be better than Stokes. Your main issue with him is that he plays for India. If the shoe was on the other foot, i.e. Fahim playing for India and Pandya playing for Pakistan, you would be laughing at this comparison.
In the last 4 months, Pandya has played 4 innings (vs PAK, vs AUS (x2), vs SL) that Fahim will probably struggle to match in his entire career. Let him first prove that he is international material and not just another fake Pakistani all-rounder, and then perhaps we can start comparing him to one of the most exciting young players in the world today.
Fahim is being hyped up due to our desperation for a top class all-rounder.
I wont be surprised he starts supporting and praising Faheem when majority goes against the kid after some failures :d
