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Has Pakistan ever produced a power-hitter with a sound technique after Saeed Anwar?

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The most close I can think of being Inzimam but again he wasn't great against a moving delivery at high pace. Honestly I can't remember a single power hitter having sound technique against pace and spin. No A.Razzaq doesn't qualify as he had an atrocious technique.

Seeing some PJL players really makes me wonder did we every coached our Junior players before to be a power hitter and yet technically sound.
 
Anwar wasn't really a power hitter, just a classical, elegant batsman with gift of timing, no violence or brute power behind his shots. Like so many other top batsmen of his era, Sachin, Lara, Mark Waugh etc. Even Kohli is of similar mould, relies on timing which backed with technique and shot selection can make him as lethal as the West Indies power hitters more often than not.

Pakistan had Mohammed Yousuf who debuted after Anwar, was he not a similar player? I think overall he was even better than Anwar.
 
Swashbuckler said:
Anwar wasn't really a power hitter, just a classical, elegant batsman with gift of timing, no violence or brute power behind his shots. Like so many other top batsmen of his era, Sachin, Lara, Mark Waugh etc. Even Kohli is of similar mould, relies on timing which backed with technique and shot selection can make him as lethal as the West Indies power hitters more often than not.

Pakistan had Mohammed Yousuf who debuted after Anwar, was he not a similar player? I think overall he was even better than Anwar.
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Nope, Anwar had a better SR than Yousuf in ODI cricket.
 
First of all, Saeed Anwar was not some power hitting hack.

His batting was extremely pleasing to eye. He was a finesse player.

If you want to talk about power hitting by Pakistan in 90s, it would be Ijaz Ahmed.

And if consider Razzaq as a 90s player then he also.
 
Both ejaz and Razzaq had horrible techniques, I am talking about power hitter with good technique , Ahmed Shehzad name also comes to my mind.
 
Muhammad Saad said:
Both ejaz and Razzaq had horrible techniques, I am talking about power hitter with good technique , Ahmed Shehzad name also comes to my mind.
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Both of them had wonderful hitting techniques. Power hitters don't have conventional technique, they have the technique to power the long hits.

Ahmed Shehzad was a good for nothing player. Please. Pakistan has had far better players.
 
Well it could only be the one and that is Shahid Afridi. He was a bit careless. Could have achieved more than what he had but he was way better than most of our current lot of hitters.
 
mrtaim3 said:
Well it could only be the one and that is Shahid Afridi. He was a bit careless. Could have achieved more than what he had but he was way better than most of our current lot of hitters.
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Afridi had a decent technique when he started his career
 
Hitman said:
Nope, Anwar had a better SR than Yousuf in ODI cricket.
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In that era middle order batsmen generally had lower strike rates, remember we had only one ball then and it would get old/soft in middle overs making it hard to hit. Also no field restrictions, and before the T20 era of innovation. All the high SR batsmen then were top 3 batsmen.
 
You are confusing power hitting with batting at a good SR.

Anwar wasn't a power hitter but batted at a quick pace. Babar is probably the closest to him in that regard.
 
Anwar can loft it too so he is definitely in the category of power hitter as well. Not a brute power hitter in the mould of Razzaq , Afridi , Asif , Umar Akmal but still a power hitter with amazing technique.
 
Anwar did have a faulty technique and played away from his body regularly but just had the best timing and placement
 
If I have to talk about a power hitter with technique then Afridi comes the closest. Problem was he lacked a brain. Also Anwar cant be classified as a power hitter he was a proper free flowing batsman.

Inzamam can be classified more as a hitter than Anwar though he also doesnt properly fit the category ur asking.
 
Saeed Anwar in my opinion wasn't a power hitter.

He was all wristwork, timing and footwork.
 
Saeed Anwar early on in his career would step down to the fast bowlers and would attack them, hit them over the top. He was our Jayasuriya early on in his career. He then became a more mature batsman who started to play the ball on merit and made sure to focus more on timing, ground strokes.

A good example for youngsters to follow. Imran Khan knew he was something special at the time of debut but he dropped him after a few failures against the West Indies where he was hessitant against the WI pace attack and scored a pair. Saeed fell ill for the 1992 ODI WC otherwise Imran would have picked him for certain.
 
Anyone remembers Manzoor Elahi? He played 87 worldcup, he was my favorite all rounder, I remember he was a hard hitter, don't remember how good he was technically as I was too young at that time.

After Saeed Anwar, we produced Afridi and we made it ok to have one good game with runs and good SR after failing 20 odd games. We are still suffering aftermath of it.
 
Mighty Misbah was a power hitter with sound technique
 
razaq, umar akmal, kami, all had pretty decent techniques.

hafeez was solid too. you dont get players like Anwar every generation. he was special.
 
Razzaq, Afridi and Umar Akmal had good techniques when they first started.

Afridi and Umar’s technique deteriorated at an alarming rate and they became nothing more than glorified sloggers eventually.

As said above Hafeez was probably our best in LOIs after Saeed Anwar. Nowhere near as gifted, but worked hard to improve post 2010
 
Muhammad Saad said:
The most close I can think of being Inzimam but again he wasn't great against a moving delivery at high pace. Honestly I can't remember a single power hitter having sound technique against pace and spin. No A.Razzaq doesn't qualify as he had an atrocious technique.

Seeing some PJL players really makes me wonder did we every coached our Junior players before to be a power hitter and yet technically sound.
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Anwar wasn't a power hitter.

Closest i can think of is Ejaz Ahmed or mansoor akhtar.
 
Mohammad Hafeez was extemely pleasing on the eye when he got going and could clear a fence with ease.

Unfortunately it didn't happen enough in his career. I think he probably underachieved with the bat due to his refusal to bat in the middle and also because of his bowling.
 
Anwar was not a power hitter. He was a great bat with excellent timing. If you look at his batting in the first 15 overs, most of the his shots will be along the ground. Even his lofted shots would be all wrist and timing.
 
Saeed was just effortless timing. He had the effortless grace of David Gower, but he also had the ability to effortlessly hit a lot of sixes unlike Gower who was primarily all along the ground.

One of a kind. You’ll never find another Saeed, but you have to find players who can consistently play at a high strike rate and give your team some impetus at the top.
 
hitthestump said:
Mohammad Hafeez was extemely pleasing on the eye when he got going and could clear a fence with ease.

Unfortunately it didn't happen enough in his career. I think he probably underachieved with the bat due to his refusal to bat in the middle and also because of his bowling.
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Good point.

Hafeez is one the very few players we have produced that managed to transform his batting to incorporate power hitting.
 
Anwar was a wristy player. He had this signature flick over square leg. Amir Sohail complemented him very well with his off side stroke play.
 
Muhammad Saad said:
The 2nd best option would be Nasir Jamshed as he had the terrific technique and had ample of time to play his shots.
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What?

1. Saeed Anwar wasn't a power hitter at all. He was a great timer of the ball. More like a Hafeez than a slogger.

2. Nasir Jamshed didn't have great technique at all. A lot of his hitting was mows across the line.
 
Anwar was not a power hitter. The most pleasing batsman rot watch from Pakistan. Timing, placement. He would have done great in 20-20 also. What a player
 
People won't like this, but the next best option we've had as an attacking left hand opening batsman in white ball cricket was Sharjeel.

We should have realised his importance early on and looked after him. Yes he's indisciplined, but this is man management. You have to identify your players early and ensure they don't fall by the way side.
 
Umar Akmal and Imran Nazir.

Question is "has Pakistan *ever* produced..." and not how successful their careers were. U Akmal had a variety of shots in his arsenal and simply wasted his talent. Nazir's offside skills were sensational and his slogging was powerful. Shame that neither of them could apply their talents to their full potential.
 
The question is about Power hitter with proper elegant techinque , please don't mention names like Akmal , Nazir , Farhat , Razzaq , Afridi , They were just sloggers with ugly technique , I don't think we have ever produced a power hitter with elegant technique , the only exception might be Nasir Jamshed and Saeed Anwar as they both can slog and go aerial as well have good technique against pacy moving ball.
 
Seeing PJL players , they all are pretty looking with elegant technique against moving ball albeit at 130ks and can slog and clear the boundaries as well , The coaching at junior level is amazing , it just a matter of handling extra 10k Pace and hopefully they will be able to manage that with time.
 
Muhammad Saad said:
The most close I can think of being Inzimam but again he wasn't great against a moving delivery at high pace. Honestly I can't remember a single power hitter having sound technique against pace and spin. No A.Razzaq doesn't qualify as he had an atrocious technique.

Seeing some PJL players really makes me wonder did we every coached our Junior players before to be a power hitter and yet technically sound.
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You are mixing up the terms of power hitters and stroke players. Anwar was never a power hitter, he was a very sweet timer of the ball, the most elegant stroke player pakistan have ever produced.
 
I have never seen a batsmen more exciting ( umar akmal comes close ) than imran nazir in terms of power hitting. I still remember some of his innings for sialkot stallions.
 
Muhammad Saad said:
Seeing PJL players , they all are pretty looking with elegant technique against moving ball albeit at 130ks and can slog and clear the boundaries as well , The coaching at junior level is amazing , it just a matter of handling extra 10k Pace and hopefully they will be able to manage that with time.
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Only Basit Ali looked like a stand out player.
 
shamaan said:
Only Basit Ali looked like a stand out player.
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All of them are coached well and have a pretty good batting technique against a moving ball and all of them are good timers of the ball even when slogging , it just a matter of who is the best among the current lot when it comes to facing 140k+ pace and real spinners , I am sure we will find 3/4 good hitters from PJL to play in PSL and eventually for PAK
 
Umar and Kamran Akmal were the closest.

There was a lot of batsmen with decent power and ability years back. Umar, Kamran, Sharjeel, Jamshed, Maqsood all had decent power and decent enough technique (at least initially). Maybe you could add Iftikhar too to that list. They all had ability to make it at international standard cricket. Not a single one of them did for one reason or the other. Fitness is probably a big reason they didn’t. The new talent I see these days in terms of batsmen with good power is really poor. They are just wild sloggers with no technique who struggle to stay in for 10 balls.
 
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Anwar was a timer. His batting is anything but brute force.

Shahid Afridi and may be Abdul Razzaq to some extent are the power hitters that I can think of that Pak produced in the last 30 years.
 
Muhammad Saad said:
Both ejaz and Razzaq had horrible techniques, I am talking about power hitter with good technique , Ahmed Shehzad name also comes to my mind.
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Ejaj Ahmed has the best record among Pakistanis on Australian soil. He was good on bouncy track against pace.
 
Rana said:
They did. Sharjeel Khan wasted himself
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Sharjeel isn’t fit to tie Anwar’s shoelaces, pun intended.

Anwar has a nostalgic factor going for him though, as he failed consistently against the two best bowling attacks of his generation.
 
Once again, Anwar was not a power hitter. The reason he scored so fast was his fluid footwork. Allowed him to access both sides in front of square with ease compared to his team-mates in the 90's. Ijaz, Inzi, Afridi, Razzaq could play strong shots through the off side quite easily but had to hack the ball a lot more to score on the legside
 
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